Creative Zen Vision - Shall We Take A Look At An Award Winner?

The Creative Zen Vision is Creative Labs' newestmade for group viewing, and also the screen as it is
addition to their successful line of portable mediahighly reflective, which is more of a problem when
players. A 30GB video player it plays songs, displaysviewing photographs instead of videos as photos are
photos, along with video collections. Creative Labs isbrighter than video.
the well-known C.E.S. award-wining family who, in MaySomething we haven't touched on yet was the screen
of 2006, won the "Red Dot Design Award" for Zensize of the MP3 players. When deciding between a
Vision's superior design quality, lightweight pocket-size,Creative Zen Vision and the iPod Video, the iPod didn't
and innovation from Essen Design Zentrum Nordrheinchange screen size - reason? The iPod is known as
Westfalen, in Germany. Also, in November of 2005, itthe leader in music, not in videos. While the iPod screen
was the winner of the "100 Best Gadgets of 2005" foris smaller, it seems to be more visible in multiple angles,
the personal video player from Gadget Magazine,while Creative Zen Vision is better straight on. All in all,
Indonesia.it depends on the overall purpose of why you are
The Zen Vision has won awards for many reasons,buying the MP3 player.
with the main one its ability to enjoy 120 hours ofThe battery and power life has been a real problem
movie screenings, based on 500Kbps MPEG4-SPwith most of the MP3 players, and the Zen Vision
formats. It is available in a 30GB model which allows itsseems to be at the peak of increased battery
users over 15,000 songs and thousands of photos. Theevolution. It includes the extended life Li-ion battery
recorder allows the user to tape their favorite songspack, for double playback time, which is removable,
live with the FM radio or their favorite talk show, plusrechargeable, and very lightweight. The users can
being able to tape personal memos, lectures, orenjoy up to 26 hours of music, instead of eight or 13, or
discussions.up to nine hours of video. We cannot look at any MP3
The Vision has the ability to support many videovideo without comparing it to the iPod versions. So
formats. Some are the AVI, DivXTM 4 & 53, XviD4,therefore, we shall state the iPod offers 20 hours of
MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG4-SP, WMV9 andbattery life to listen to music, and the Zen Vision only
Motion-JPEG. With this many choices available for theoffers 13 hours. And whenever one company has
consumer, its unsurpassed video performance andsomething "better to offer" there is always the other
superb photo. Many reviews find it the best-designedside of the coin for the brand X - so Creative Labs
product in the PMP category - one available color, inhas made up for this lack of 7 hours by offering the
addition to magnesium black, is the white magnesiumextended battery pack. Apple? The ball is in your field
case with a soft pearlescent finish, with a blue backlitnow!
controls. The low point seems to be the fact it is not