[rene_canlas]

What's so revolutionary about this? Tons of PPC slideshow viewers are capable of this. Just a quick list of the PPC slideshow'ers and the transition effects + special features they have off my forthcoming picviewer/editor roundup

While these products may have transition effects, what they lack is the pan/zoom effect popularized by Ken Burns, which blew me away the first time I used Windows Media Center Edition slideshows.

[rene_canlas]

What's so revolutionary about this? Tons of PPC slideshow viewers are capable of this. Just a quick list of the PPC slideshow'ers and the transition effects + special features they have off my forthcoming picviewer/editor roundup

While these products may have transition effects, what they lack is the pan/zoom effect popularized by Ken Burns, which blew me away the first time I used Windows Media Center Edition slideshows.

[Menneisyys]

Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

You're trying to suggest solutions that simply are not relavent to this problem - we want to view our PhotoStory 3 created video files on our Pocket PC, and we can't, which is my complaint.

Thta's right, sorry for being offtopic.

[Darius Wey]

Originally Posted by Menneisyys

That's right - but XnView 1.20 on the PPC took this even further - it creates an .EXE-based slideshow, which is watchable without any kind of installed pic viewer. The EXE contains all the (downscaled) images, the transition effects and so on (of course, it's PPC-based, not multi-platform). So, there is (in this case, free) alternative to WMP10, at least on the PPC.

Cool. But my point was that the photo-stories go one-up on the picture viewers because of the multi-platform support. The only rant is that not all Pocket PCs support Photo Story 3-created files, but I still think multi-platform support takes the cake.

[inteller]

Originally Posted by unuselessj

Is it possible to run Windows Media Player 10 Mobile on WM2003 as opposed to WM2003SE? I use an Axim X5 and I'll probably be using it for a while. I think it would be nifty if I could make small little slideshows and use my axim to shot them to people.

oh its entirely possible, but the *******s at microsoft orphaned us 2003 users so we'd be forced to get a new device.

[Rob Alexander]

Originally Posted by Janak Parekh

How does one vote with their wallet? HP hasn't released updates to WMP10 for all their units. Neither has Toshiba, Dell, Asus, etc. Are you suggesting we go over to Palm?

How about if we stop buying every new model of PPC that comes out when it's of only marginal improvement over the previous generation. That is, stop buying any PPC that doesn't offer a full slate of major advances in technology.

There are two ways to vote with your wallet: you can actively buy a competing product (i.e. Palm) or you can just continue to use your existing PPC for another two years. You can also encourage people to buy the previous generation of PPCs, which are getting down to bargain prices now, and see if the industry doesn't get the message that they'll need to come up with exciting new devices to get repeat business.

[Rob Alexander]

Originally Posted by threedaysdwn

Pretty harsh, considering the second-gen model came out within a month of my purchase (and the Apple store never told me a new model was coming... and had some wacky "17 day" return policy or something like that).

Oh yeah, that would be the 'however long you've had it minus one day' return policy. It's getting more popular all the time. :lol: