Creative's new "Zen Vision" player

[Atahualpa]

Re: Re: Creative's new "Zen Vision" player

Originally posted by Tingkai

Bulky

iPod: 158 grams, 104 x 61 x 157 cm

Wow 104 cm x 61 cm x 157 cm

[Kuciwalker]

my new sig

[Provost Harrison]

I'm a little concerned about the sturdiness of a HD-equipped player - it would strike me that a solid-state approach would be superior and more reliable. So, is this true?

[Zopperoni]

There are HD players with shock protection. The iAudio M3 has twelve minutes of shock protection.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by nostromo
I have no use for these multimedia players... However, there's also a bigger version of the Zen Micro, called the Zen. It looks just like the Micro, but with a 20 GB hd. Same interface, though...

http://www.creative.com/products/pro...&product=11519

My Zen has a 40 BG capacity. If I knew this one was coming out then I might have waited the extra few weeks before buying depending upon the price. Still, I'm happy with my Zen and I got tons of play time out of it on my recent road trip through Costa Rica. I also use it all the time here in the states.

I don't think I would have used the FM radio feature so its no big lose to me but it is one step closer to the ultimate convergence device I've been waiting for.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
I'm a little concerned about the sturdiness of a HD-equipped player - it would strike me that a solid-state approach would be superior and more reliable. So, is this true?

They are more reliable in that there is zero danger of damaging a hard drive and with fewer moving parts there are simply few things to break and as an added benifit they consume less electricity since there are no electric motors to power. Even HDD players with shock protection still recommend you don't jog with them due to potential damage to the hard drive. Solid state is the future but right now capacity isn't great (around 5GB). Once we get solid state up to around 20GB you will see them take over the market.

[Provost Harrison]

Yeah, precisely. Well I suppose jogging isn't going to be much of a concern for me

[Tingkai]

Re: Re: Re: Creative's new "Zen Vision" player

Originally posted by Atahualpa


Wow 104 cm x 61 cm x 157 cm

gotta love typos.

Should'd been mm, of course.

[Tis I]

how do you guys think the hard drive based Iriver's compare to these?

[Nostromo]

Originally posted by Tis I
how do you guys think the hard drive based Iriver's compare to these?

They generally get very good reviews. Otoh, they're not the cheapest MP3 players on the bloc