Creative unveils Vision:M video iPod killer


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If it plays divx files regardless of size and stuff this is something for me!

I have so many divx files on my pc that this would be great to store it on, and use it for

on the go and catch up on my missed tv shows :)

I don't like the menu interface - it is too much like iPods. That being said, I have used my brother's creative zen player and IMHO it is a much better mp3 player then the iPod. I bought an Ipod to use while I excerise and i can't even jog with it (that causes the ipod to crash)... I can't sync files by browsing to the ipod and dropping mp3s on it (come on it's 2005 for christ sake!) w/o using Itunes (which is the s******t mp3 player for a computer around). This was my first Apple product purchase and it will definately be my last! Next time I will listen to that little voice in the back of my head telling me that Steve Jobs is taking me for a ride as I paid for it...

I can't sync files by browsing to the ipod and dropping mp3s on it (come on it's 2005 for christ sake!) w/o using Itunes (which is the s******t mp3 player for a computer around).

yes you can, i do it everyday using xplay 2. there is also anapod explorer, but this one is a bit harder to find if you know what i mean.

so weither you pay extra or not, but you can definately browse your ipod though the explorer.

As many people have already said, they COPIED the basic iPod UI which bugs me first... The navigation buttons are no where compared to the click wheel and its much thicker! Overall: (N)

You forget that Apple is getting sued from creative for copying their UI. Creative had a patent on it and the ipods still used it ;)

its an ipod killer just because of all the formats it works with no one in their right mind would use an ipod if your wanting compatability and ease of video playback. Your only excuse for the ipod is now the looks :p

DIVX here i come!!!!!111 :woot:

yes you can, i do it everyday using xplay 2. there is also anapod explorer, but this one is a bit harder to find if you know what i mean.

so weither you pay extra or not, but you can definately browse your ipod though the explorer.

Sure I can browse it - woohoo. But I shouldn't have to use Itunes to sync files on it so that they will be recognized by the ipod's software. I'm not going to "buy" extra software to do something that every other mp3 player out there does automatically... :crazy:

Your only excuse for the ipod is now the looks

1. Cost

2. AAC and ITunes Compatible

3. Brand Loyalty (owned others)

4. Better UI navigation

5. Ease of Use

//off the top of my head

PS. I owned 1st, 3rd, Mini and now Nano. Not a fan boy.. just loyal and prefer brainless use of the ipod.

1. Cost

2. AAC and ITunes Compatible

3. Brand Loyalty (owned others)

4. Better UI navigation

5. Ease of Use

//off the top of my head

PS. I owned 1st, 3rd, Mini and now Nano. Not a fan boy.. just loyal and prefer brainless use of the ipod.

No disrespect but I was following you until I read the "I owned 1st, 3rd, Mini and now Nano. Not a fan boy.. "... Sometimes you just need to take a good long look in the mirror and say "I am an apple fanboy, I am an apple fanboy"! :p

I find it very agrvating how people SWEAR that iPod had their UI before Creative did and that Creative is just a huge copy. You apple fanboys never stop amazing me. When confronted with nano's flaw (creative btw had that name first) they quickly came back with "BUY A FSCKING CASE." You shouldn't have to buy a case for a MP3 player, period. Then i laughed when the video came out and they threw in a cheapass case for it (i'm sure that planned...) Now when Creative releases a new player that has a color screen everyone (read apple fanboys) flips out and goes crazy about how Creative copied iPods UI. Well, they didn't.

http://www.betanews.com/article/Creative_T...tent/1125404963

Eat it.

I would love to see apple forced to change the UI on new iPod models over this. Then the apple fanboys would be pwnt :laugh:

yes that would be rolf (I own a zen micro) and they might have or at least a nice hefty settlement.

The fact is tough they have to take Apple's ideas into it otherwise who would by it?

Anyway Creative have had movie players out for ages I use to own a Portable Media Centre, in till it broke.

You're forgetting that most people just want to listen to music and the iPod gives them that in a stylish and very simplistic package. The 150 million accessories don't hurt it either.

That too... Also for all of you just hoping to **** of the apple fanboys, don't bother, the iPod isn't the only source of pride, lol. But joking aside, the difference is that the iPod is successful. It is successful because it struck a chord that turned on the masses. No other company has been able to do this yet.

ack ok then

I thought this media player was syncing within explorer by making a removeable disk like my old muvo do

I have having a software to sync too

I own an ipod mini but my wife uses it most of the time hehe

so she takes care of the sync.. ack!

Now when Creative releases a new player that has a color screen everyone (read apple fanboys) flips out and goes crazy about how Creative copied iPods UI. Well, they didn't.

http://www.betanews.com/article/Creative_T...tent/1125404963

Eat it.

Yeah, because no one had come up the idea of automatically filing tracks in a hierarchical order based on attributes of the tracks on a portable music player before. :whistle:

"According to one aspect of the present invention, a technique is provided for organizing tracks on a portable music player by automatically filing tracks in a hierarchical order based on attributes of the tracks," patent application 6,928,433 reads.

"According to another aspect of the invention, the hierarchy is derived by using metadata associated with the audio content that was obtained through any source of metadata (e.g. CDDB metadata, id3v2 metadata, other obtainable metadata) and subsequently stored with or alongside the file that stores the track."

Use some common sense. There is no way the Creative patent is valid. I can remember several MP3 players I purchased before 2001 that did this.

Um.. they used their UI in 2000. Read the source closer.

"The patent was used in Creative's NOMAD Jukebox, which debuted in September 2000. Creative points out that the iPod did not ship for another 13 months."

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