Creative ZEN Vision:M 30GB MP3 / Multi-Media Player - Black |
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Product Description
Creative's Zen Vision:M? is the ultimate player for people who want to enjoy music and movies on the go. This stylish, versatile system features an advanced colour screen for brilliant movies and stills, and its rechargeable battery delivers playtimes up to four hours with video, up to 14 hours with MP3 music.
The Zen Vision:M offers the ergonomic design of Creative's Zen family and supports popular music, video and photo formats. It can store up to 15,000 songs* or up to 120 hours of video on its high-capacity hard disk, sharing images and videos with friends and family is ultra-easy.
* Based on four-minute songs at 64kbps in WMA.
Key Features:
Stylish design is compact (104x62x18.9mm) and tactile, with textured finish and smooth contours
30GB hard disk stores up to 15,000 songs* or 120 hours of video
2.5-inch (51x39mm) screen displays images at 320x240, ensuring high quality
Supports audio formats WMA (with DRM), MP3, WAV; video formats MPEG (1/2/4), DivX, XviD, WMV; picture format JPG (JPEG)
Output to TV via optional AV cable
Battery playtimes up to 14 hours of music or 4 hours of video
What Hi-Fi Review
March 2006
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Good, 2009-12-15
Probably should have bought an ipod. Its the old Betamax VHS thing where the best product fails to capture the market
Seems Big for 2010, 2009-12-02
I have been using the ZEN:M for nearly 4 years now, and i think it has to be one of the best mp3 player there has been. Granted there are a few problems like all products, however the pros of the player out way the cons by far.
If like me you detest itunes then this would have been the player for you. I say would of, because now among the slim new models of players for 2008 onwards the ZEN:M looks like a dinosaur mainly due to size.
The user interface is practically the same as apples ipod only changed to suit the different type of touch pad, so no problems there. The PC software is good as long as you have a reasonable machine, and it doesn't try to take over your life like itunes does.
Sound, well sound is only as good as the tunes you load on, high end mp3 will sound great with decent headphone "seinesser cx500" as the ones supplied, sound good but will break eventually.
One major problem is if there is corrupt files, mp3, avi's etc might sometimes stall and freeze the player leaving you looking for something pin sized to push into the tiny reset switch at the bottom of the player, with a wait of around 2 minutes as it restarts, depending on how much is stored on the player.
You can use the player as a removable drive on windows OS machines and there is no copy protection like ipods, it just gives you the freedom to do what you want and not want apple say.
In the end it was and still is a cracking player excellent sound, screen and battery life. However nearly 2010 it just seems abit big these days, but the price has stayed high showing that creative produce fantastic product.
Good but quickly obsolete, 2009-04-18
The sound is fine but aside from the need to attach the player to a PC to charge it and the need to reset it if the battery runs flat, the main problem I have with the player is the interface. The Ipod is supported by most manufactures (including Creative) in terms of docking stations and speakers but no-one supports this interface (including Creative). I would be wary of recommending this and potentially similar products from a company that can so readily change the interface rather than provide some longevity to its products; it's a lot of money to spend for a product that is obsolete before you have the opportunity to think about add ons.
awsome player, 2010-01-28
Ok I'v had the 60gb version of this for 3 years now and i cant fault it! put it this way I still use it every day at work and home. I'm a builder aswell and i have gave it alot of abuse and it's still going. When it does die i will probably cry lol. God forbid i have to buy an ipod, creative need to pull there fingers out and make another player of this quality as i wont buy any thing poorly made as the ipod
Great until screen breaks (and it will), 2009-07-29
I had this for several months and thought it was a great product (thumb pad takes a bit of getting used to). That was until a little bit of pressure was put on screen (was in wife's handbag for about 30 min) and screen badly cracked even though it was in a protective case. Creative's customer service boardered on insulting, accussing me of smashing it then claiming it was faulty. They won't repair /replace the screen even if you offer to pay! They only offered a reconditioned one for me to buy at almost full price. Their service was so bad that I'll never buy a Creative product again. Have since loads of reviews with the same complaint of screen breaking too easily.
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Electronics
Creative Labs
USB 2.0
2.5
5390660122866
Creative labs
Creative labs
70PF169000071
Creative labs
2006-01-05
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