The Commodore PMC30 portable video player
By Peter Rojas 
posted Jun 16th 2005 8:30AM
posted Jun 16th 2005 8:30AM
Just because it has the Commodore name on it doesn't mean it has anything anymore, but Yeahronimo Media Ventures, which snapped up the brand from Tulip Computers late last year, has busted out a new Commodore portable video player (or at least they've slapped the Commodore name on one). The PMC30 isn't anything all that special otherwise (30GB hard drive, 3.6-inch LCD screen, 5 hour battery life for video, and support for MPEG4, DivX 5.0, and WMV9 video files and MP3, AAC, and WMA audio files), which means that they're hoping that the nostalgia kick alone will be enough to drive sales.
Were is the rainbow!!!!!?!?!?!?!
Commodore, thanks for driving the Amiga into the ground. That was a real computer, with custom graphics and audio chips, integrated with a low memory efficient os. Now apple and pc users fight and what is different, the way the os is laid out no thanks. now they will both use the same cpus, already share video and audio cards. whats the difference again?
when will they come out with one of these things that plays xvid too??
I actually talked my company into buying an Amiga 4000 for me, back in the day... for building presentations. It blew away all the pc-based powerpoint presentations.
Had the Amiga been allowed to continue in development, it could have also scored well with the video editing market... for those who remember the "Toaster" days, it was well on it's way.
MPEG4 video support and AAC audio support....will this be the first PMC to support Nero Digital, even if not in name?
Hopefully it's faster than my old 1541.
Needs four fat funtion keys maybe there's a c64 emulator easter egg hidden and will work with bt keyboard
i miss the AMIGA... it was my first computer.
they should come out with a new version of the amiga to fight against apple and the pc market....
GO WORKBENCH :)
I still miss my Commodore 64, and both my Amiga 1000 and my Amiga 4000. AmigaOS had it problems but between the GUI and CLI, I could automate complex tasks and really multitask.
Another happy Commodore64 / Amiga 500 user here.
I'd buy an Amiga if they came out with one now. They should purposely make it as ugly and austere as they can, just to flip the bird to the iStyle craze.
Why reactivate the Commodore brand when the Amiga name would've been far more appropriate for multimedia products such as this?
I request to the Engaget gods that they make it impossible to put links to e-mail and HTML in the comments if we continue to get jerks trying to get people to e-mail them to build their spam lists.
i didn't know michael jackson was reading engadget...
(sorry... i had to)
but can I play summer games and gauntlet on it?
Yes - Summer Games, Zork, Lode Runner... 1541 disk drive... daisywheel printer.
I miss my C64. Those were the days I enjoyed a computer - now I have to work with them!
I wish the Amiga could come back. I'm not a fan of Windows or Mac OS. Things haven't been the same since I sold my old A500 in 1993. I credit that machine in building my perfect resume using CygnusEd (remember that editor?).
I wonder when they'll start selling these on QVC with the C64 joystick as a peripheral...
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As an old commodore 64 lover I could buy it just for the name, yeah... damn them :)
sigh...