The latest portable media players strive to be the Swiss Army knives of digital content, giving you mobile access to your entire video and audio libraries. The Creative Zen Portable Media Center and
the Datexx Pavio take very different paths to (almost) reach digital nirvana. As with many other Windows-based devices, the PC controls the content of Creative's Zen, which uses Microsoft's
just-released Portable Media Center and Windows Media Player 10 software. Before you connect the player, you have to install applications from the included CD and download the latest Windows Media
components, a process that takes more than 30 minutes on a broadband connection and considerably longer using (gulp) dialup.
Read the whole story at Wired, November 22, 2004
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