Creative Zen Portable Media Center review

There's an in-depth review of the Creative Portable Media Center over at Corey Gouker's Machine Inside the Mind. What's a Portable Media Center? It's Microsoft's answer to iPod-like devices, but designed to handle all types of media. It's heavily biased towards being used with a Windows Media Center Edition PC, letting you watch TV programmes you've recorded on it away from the home.

So how does it compare to the iPod and other PMP’s in terms of the coolness factor. Well, the Creative certainly doesn’t look as sleek and sexy as the iPod that’s for sure. It doesn’t have that Click Wheel which people seem to have a love/hate thing going with it. But it does have this massive screen with color and album art and all that. But like I said before, you can’t compare them directly. The PMC does so much more than an iPod. I honestly can’t say at this point whether I’d buy one or not. While the entire idea behind PMC’s has grown on me since using it over the past few days it still hasn’t won me.