Metadata support: Portable Media Centers support information related to audio, picture and video files, including album art, music ratings, video title and TV information.

ENGADGET: Review of Creative's new Zen Portable Media Center

The 90-store chain plans to open a new online service this summer that lets consumers create their own podcasts--audio and video shows designed to be downloaded onto a computer or portable media player--using a catalog of some 6, 000 songs, which Tower will provide free of charge.

FORBES: Take My Music, Please

The IceTouch (YP-H1), featuring the world's first 2-inch, full color, transparent Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (AMOLED) touch-screen display, functions as a DVD-quality video player, studio quality audio player, an ultra-portable photo album, an FM radio and even a portable storage device.

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