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The editors liked
Gorgeous screen
Great battery life
Highly customizable menu
Excellent video format compatibility (no need for tedious conversions)
Stunning video quality
First-rate sound and EQ enhancements
Long battery life
Stylish design
Easy to use
Great navigation & controls
Great video battery life
FM tuner
Voice recorder
Excellent audio & video quality
Good design. Excellent screen. Very good audio and video quality. Broad feature set.
Good size
Video
Picture support
Organizer
Great sound quality
Easy menu system
Brilliant display
Broad format and service compatibility
Excellent audio and video performance
Available in five colors
The Creative Zen Vision
M has an incredible screen
A simple interface
Excellent video battery life
An FM tuner and recorder
And a voice recorder. It features a customizable Shortcut button
And it supports a wide range of ...
Good looking
Great audio quality
Great image quality
Great video quality
Plays a lot of video formats without the need for re-coding
Outputs 640x480 video using the optional AV-cable
Works great with WMP10 and has the Play4Sure logo
High audio quality High audio quality
Great screen for photos and video
The editors didn't like
Video hiccups every 10-15 minutes due to buffering (fixed via firmware)
A bit bulky
Somewhat awkward control designs
MTP (meaning no Mac support ever)
No games
Non-removable battery
Easy to lose dock adapter...
Prone to freezing
Lack of integrated audio and video media store
Thicker than the iPod
Requires power adapter for charging
Mediocre audio battery life
No compatible video store available yet
Clunky dongle to sync/charge
Short battery life. Requires a dongle to sync
Charge
And output to TV.
Adapter
Relatively short battery life
Touchpad control is imprecise
Less video content available compared to iPod
The Creative Zen Vision
M has no iTunes-like video content--yet. Some will find the touch-pad controller frustrating. The black model scratches easily. The documentation is skimpy. You must use an adapter for transfers and power
Meaning that occasiona...
Only usable on Windows XP
Needs drivers before you can transfer music and video
Abstract: Video Review: Creative has tried hard to create an iPod killer. With the Creative Zen Vision:M, its close but Apple is not ready to give up the championship belt. The look is great, and the scroll wheel works well. It has a 2.5 inch color screen, com...
Abstract: 30 GB hard disk for storing music, photos, and movies. A 2.5 inch color screen for watching videos. The screen resolution is 320x240 pixels, with a 262 000-color display. The device can play MP3, WMA (including copy-protected songs) and WAV music, and ...
Brilliant display, broad format and service compatibility, excellent audio and video performance
Relatively short battery life, touchpad control is imprecise, less video content available compared to iPod
Creative delivers a bona-fide iPod challenger with its wonderful Zen Vision:M. This versatile player offers top-notch audio and video reproduction, and its extensive feature list leaves little to be desired.The 30GB Vision:M comes in black, white, gre...
Good size, Video, picture support, Organizer, Great sound quality, Easy menu system
Adapter
I guess this product can be summed up into one single word "Excellent" this is really what the product is, it has some awesome new features and the m3 player feels comfortable and the menu system is easy to use. The only flaw I could ...
Abstract: You know a device has a great user interface when someone utterly unfamiliar with it accomplishes a task within 10 seconds of picking it up. Apple’s iPods pass this test with aplomb; Creative’s Zen Vision: M utterly fails it. It’s a significant flaw i...
Good looking, Great audio quality, Great image quality, Great video quality, Plays a lot of video formats without the need for re-coding, Outputs 640x480 video using the optional AV-cable, Works great with WMP10 and has the Play4Sure logo
Only usable on Windows XP, Needs drivers before you can transfer music and video, No support for OGG, FLAC or AAC, Scratches easy
So is this an iPOD-killer? Well, in some ways yes but in others no. First of all it does only work in Windows XP which means it won’t interest users of other OS’es. It also does not have the same amount of peripheral created for it. On a visit...
Abstract: Zen Vision:M $329 Creative (408) 428-6600 www.creative.com CPU Rating: 4 Specs: 30GB; 2.5-inch LCD (320 x 240, 262k colors); up to 14 hours continuous audio playback; up to four hours of continuous video playback; up to 97db SNR; FM tuner; TV-out If yo...
Stylish design, easy to use, great navigation & controls, great video battery life, FM tuner, voice recorder, excellent audio & video quality
Mediocre audio battery life, no compatible video store available yet, clunky dongle to sync/charge
Portable media players are quickly becoming all the rage among music listeners and video watchers that want an all-in-one device. The Apple iPod 5G (aka- iPod Video) has become a hugely popular handheld device for both watching videos and listening t...
