Samsung launched their multifunctional Portable Media Centre (PMC) Player, the YH-999, last Monday in the UK.
The eagerly awaited Samsung offering is the second in a series of Portable Media Centers due to hit the UK. The device features a 3.5” colour TFT LCD screen, video out capabilities and a built-in speaker for headphone-free viewing. The YH-999 plays Windows Media Video (WMV9) files at 320x240 resolution and 500kbps. The device allows for around 80 hours of recorded TV to be stored on its 20GB HD.
Photos can be downloaded instantly from a digital camera to the YH-999 and viewed immediately. The PMC can store up to 400,000 pictures in the 20GB of storage and users can also display their pictures on a TV in a slideshow accompanied by music via the video-out port.
Alternatively the PMC acts as a music player allowing users to store both WMA and MP3 music files, approximately 5000 songs can be stored to fill up the 20GB of storage. Recorded TV/Photos/Music is all transported onto the device via a high speed USB2.0 link.
The first PMC to hit the UK was the Creative Zen PMC. Neowin Reviewed this device back in November. We were impressed with the abilities of the device and the future of the PMC.
The device is currently on sale in the UK priced at £399.99, it's available from Dixon's in the UK. Expect a review to hit Neowin soon.
Screenshot: Samsung YH-999 PMC Head On
Screenshot: Samsung YH-999 PMC & Stand
View: More Information On The Samsung YH-999 PMC
View: Neowin Creative Zen PMC Review
The eagerly awaited Samsung offering is the second in a series of Portable Media Centers due to hit the UK. The device features a 3.5” colour TFT LCD screen, video out capabilities and a built-in speaker for headphone-free viewing. The YH-999 plays Windows Media Video (WMV9) files at 320x240 resolution and 500kbps. The device allows for around 80 hours of recorded TV to be stored on its 20GB HD.
Photos can be downloaded instantly from a digital camera to the YH-999 and viewed immediately. The PMC can store up to 400,000 pictures in the 20GB of storage and users can also display their pictures on a TV in a slideshow accompanied by music via the video-out port.
Alternatively the PMC acts as a music player allowing users to store both WMA and MP3 music files, approximately 5000 songs can be stored to fill up the 20GB of storage. Recorded TV/Photos/Music is all transported onto the device via a high speed USB2.0 link.
The first PMC to hit the UK was the Creative Zen PMC. Neowin Reviewed this device back in November. We were impressed with the abilities of the device and the future of the PMC.
The device is currently on sale in the UK priced at £399.99, it's available from Dixon's in the UK. Expect a review to hit Neowin soon.
Screenshot: Samsung YH-999 PMC Head On Screenshot: Samsung YH-999 PMC & Stand View: More Information On The Samsung YH-999 PMC View: Neowin Creative Zen PMC Review
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Just like Apple did with the iPod/iTMS and it's many competitors.
edit: "Photos can be downloaded instantly from a digital camera to the YH-999" - that's a BIG BIG bonus in my books. there only other devices i've seen that do this are some of the archos jukeboxes, and the iriver h3xx series devices, both of which are overpriced / lacking functionality in other areas (for example, the iriver h3xx can play back video, but as it was only design as an audio player it can onky play 10fps).
native support for plugging in a usb camera is great, and someone apple REALLY REALLY should've put in to the latest ipods, shame on them.
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Ya the screen could be bigger!
4:3 screen is ok, as I think it is targetting people who want to watch TV shows on the go, not movies. If it were 16:9 all the tv shows would look like crap. I guess it comes down to what you would be using this thing for.
If they'd release 20GB hard-drives I could plug into my iPaq, it would almost have the exact same feature set this has (minus the USB 2.0 <grr..>, TV-Out, and prolly the battery life). What is the battery life for one of these, BTW?
So i hope they would just start putting out some second generation PMC's, and with the new AMD Alchemy.
Ok, flamebait, I'll bite.
Really, where are all the Samsung industry design awards... wait, they don't have any... they all go to Apple.
Personally I've found pretty much everything Apple have released in the last 5-10 years ugly as hell... Half of it looks like rejects from Ikea, and the other half look like refugees from the 60's...
Only thing that looks OK so far IMO is the box for the G5, and that's just passable...
looks like a nice product from samsung. i still don't entirely see the point of pmc's. great for long journeys, or holidays where you don't speak the local language, but i don't see myself on the bus to work catching up on the latest soap or news on one of these any time soon. by the time i get that sad i'm sure we'll have retinal projectors or something.
it's gonna be tv shows and movies, they know it, we know it.
most tv shwos and movies are all in 16:9. (when i say 16:9, i mean widescreen in general)
makes absolutely no sense to keep the screen in 4:3.
if anything, you leave the screen 16:9, and just have a 4:3 output option with black bars on the side. simple.
I can't begin to list all the Apple engineering and design awards. I guess industry experts are not to be trusted because they don't know what good design and engineering is...
It really comes down to the Ricer Cars vs Luxury Cars analogy.
Ive driven my mate's BMW 5 series and also driven a STi WRX..... I prefer the 5 series.. but some people would prefer the WRX.
Comes down to everyone's personal taste.
Regarding the design awards, I certainly wouldnt put the non-design industry professionals in charge of these awards... it would be like rednecks dictating the fashion awards.
i don't like racer cars or luxury cars. of any design ideology i come down most on the side of functional design, which means the key goal of the design is to complement the function.
i think apple has had some good ideas theyve implemented but i still have some problems with their designs, they aren't perfect, and would be better if apple cooled down their style.
the design problems with this PMC is more that the whole shape and concept of a PMC is very clumsy so far, it looks like a dumb device to have not that it needs to be white or have glowing lights, or anything.
and by the way, i don't like designer fashion either, and i think modern art is overrated. both of these fields have grown the way they did is because they catered to elite tastes that wanted to be separate from 'redneck'/bourgeois taste, which distorts everything into avant-gardist fashion which always has to change. i mean, i still think its right that some professional give the design awards, but you have to understand 'rednecks' like the things they do for a reason
Stupid whiner.
These things will get more popular with time. This is only the second one of it's kind to be released to the public (i believe).
otherwise it's useless in my opinion
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