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| Brand: Creative
Category: CE
List Price: £89.99
Buy New: £69.99
You Save: £20.00 (22%)
New (15) Used (2) from £58.99
Rating:  276 reviews
Sales Rank: 211
Media: Electronics
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 0.4 x 0.4 x 0.4
MPN: 70PF216000115
Model: 70PF216000115
EAN: 5390660143908
ASIN: B000V9IAYS
Release Date: September 19, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 Poor Quality, Beware White Screen of Death!! November 9, 2008
J. A. Smith (Leicestershire UK)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought one of these and it never worked. At all!
Do yourself a favour and Google the following:
Creative Zen White Screen of Death
This is caused by poor quality control at Creative and will leave you with a dead or intermittently faulty device. Don't touch this one with your musical barge pole!!
 I like it. :) November 7, 2008
LittleJerusha
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This Media player is as small as your average credit card and weighs about 65 grams. It has a 2.5" TFT screen which supports 16.7 million colours. Yes, it surely gives a beautiful, vivid colour display.
It comes in different capacity. 2 GB, 4 GB, 8 GB and a 32 GB. I have this 2 GB one. Reason I chose the smallest capacity was because I didn't think I'd need to store many files. Further, it has an SD card slot. So I got myself a 4 GB SD card and that gave me 6 GB of space.
Now, what are its capabilities? It plays mp3, wma,wav and aac. It also has the capability to play videos in the following formats; MPEG, WMV9, MPEG-4, DivX, XviD. Mind you, you still need to convert the videos to the size of 320 x 240. They have a converter software along with the application that comes with the Media player. But the converter as I experienced, only converts all the videos to wmv. I used a software called Any Video Converter to convert my video files. Get the free version.
It stores photos in JPEG, BMP, PNG, TIFF formats. It has a voice recorder which I find the quality quite good, because it kind of diminishes the background noises. It also comes with an FM radio. Which I think a good thing.
The downside of the media player is that, when you use the SD card, it is not fully intergrated to the media player. Which means, they don't play automatically like the music or movies you store in the flash memory. For me, it is still okay. I store my music on the flash memory and only my movies in the SD card.
Another con is, also related to the SD card, whenever I try to do a forward or rewind of movies from the SD card, it gets jammed up sometimes. Freezes. The solution to this is, reset it. You need a pin with you at all times. People complain about this. But what I do is, I wrap a pin in paper and just keep it in the leather case which I bought with the player.
Overall, I would say, I really love the player and worth the money I paid for it. If it were not for the drawbacks, I would have given it 5 stars.
 Love it November 3, 2008
music lover
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great sized machine with loads of options. Really love it. Can download programmes from BBC i-player on to it. Bought the clear plastic case which makes it a bit bigger, but protects the screen.
Nearly perfect November 2, 2008
A. M. Walker (Chester, UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this after seeing other reviews and have not been disappointed. It is brilliant and so easy to use. I had a number of films I wanted to watch and my previous MP3 player had no facility so opted for the Zen 4GB. I have found the transfer of music a doddle and display is excellent for covers.
The films are transferred via the Creative software and are great - my only criticism is the transfer time. It takes as ong as the film! So as long as you are not in a hurry its as perfect as you are going to get. It also makes it easy to store since they can be put onto the removable SD card and added/taken off even without the Zen attached.
All in all probably the most adaptable , best value for money MP3 I have had - even if it was cheaper on a certain auction site !!
 White Screen of Death October 28, 2008
Jon1001 (United Kingdom)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I recently decided to upgrade from my old Vision:M and since this player has effectively replaced the Vision:M, it seemed like a sensible purchase.
First impressions of the player were good. It's really small which is a massive improvement on the Vision:M. Also, despite its size, it feels reasonably sturdy and doesn't scratch easily. The interface is intuitive (as always with creative) and the navigation buttons are fine. Sound quality is excellent (again, as always with creative) and the screen has amazing clarity and depth of colour, something the iPod will never be able to compete with. Also, the radio and recording features work surprisingly well. Radio is usually clear (depending on location) and voice recordings are of high quality considering the size of the microphone.
One of the other reasons I decided to stick with Creative is the excellent range of playable formats in both video and music. This is still very good with the Zen, especially now that AAC playback has been added. One thing that annoyed me was that video resolution can't be higher than 320x240. That is a major problem for me since I'd have to convert all my videos before putting them on the player. Also, there is no facility to output the picture to TV which I did a lot with the Vision:M's AV cable.
Now onto the reason I've given it 2 stars... the white screen of death. This is a commonly experienced problem amongst Zen owners, however I failed to find out about it before buying the player. For me, the WSOD appeared after unlocking it. It was easy to get rid of, by simply locking the player and unlocking it again. However, when you're paying 150 for an mp3 player, you expect it to be free of bugs, especially ones as big as that. Others have had constant occurrences of the WSOD and it hard to know how badly your Zen will be affected. I find this unacceptable and as result have sent my Zen straight back for a refund. I hate to say it but I may have to get an iPod now.
In conclusion, it has potential to be a good player, although no real improvement on the Vision:M. However, I think Creative have bodged the Zen and released before it is ready. I also doubt that they will make much effort to fix the problems and therefore have ruined their chances of being Apple's competitor. It's a shame, but I wouldn't recommend buying this. Poor show Creative.
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