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Toy around with the Creative Zen Vision
comment: 39 | Wednesday, July 27 (2005) 04:33PM | Posted by Robert Sinke
Buh, we've got to be the main supplier of Zen Vision news by now. Let's throw another one on the pile - there are two demos available. One demo allows you to explore Vision's user interface for a bit, while the other offers a simple 360-degrees view of this thing.


Product page is active once more, who knows for how long though .

Thanks, Chirality
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Dominic
Location: Ireland.
Comments: 2396
 		Jul 27 (2005) 05:46PM  

is that an ipod???hehehe, that interface is such a rip off



GeniusoftheCrowd

Guest
 		Jul 27 (2005) 05:50PM  

how exactly is the interface a ripoff?



Dominic
Location: Ireland.
Comments: 2396
 		Jul 27 (2005) 05:57PM  

Sorry only really meant the batt icon, the bright blue music note, the grey background and the type used for Music library



Anonymous

Guest
 		Jul 27 (2005) 06:00PM  

hmm I am definately considering it, my only concern is the quickness of scrolling, but I guess most PMP's don't have a dedicated scroller.



whitebloodcell

Comments: 35
 		Jul 27 (2005) 06:41PM  

getting through thousands of MP3s could be a problem. Though I can live with it, such a nice screen. I have to have it. Wish they would hurry up and get it out. This money is weighing me down.



idiotekniQues

Comments: 7
 		Jul 27 (2005) 07:18PM  

that istation i2 kicks this things butt big time.



Billy Gun

Guest
 		Jul 27 (2005) 07:33PM  

looks a nice player... but where is the album art viewing?



AFD
Location: Northeastern, U.S.
Comments: 166
 		Jul 27 (2005) 08:21PM  

Don't forget the white version of the Vision.. also another knock-off of Apple's ground-breaking innovations. Bet when the iPod w/video comes out later this year, nobody will say it's a rip-off of all the other video capable DAPs & PMPs out there. I didn't notice any mention of album cover art either - looks like they left room for it on the "now playing" screen, though. Really hope they include that as a feature.



GeniusoftheCrowd

Guest
 		Jul 27 (2005) 08:26PM  

Yeah album art seems like a given if it a player is picture capable, I don't know why companies are disregarding it.



SowndOfDeth

Comments: 417
 		Jul 27 (2005) 09:04PM  

I like it when people also say that the Zen sleek interface is an iPod ripoff

Its true the colors and the fonts look similar to the iPod's. But the menu structures are different and I would say more efficient. It would be nice if they had the 'battery indicator' change color as its discharged. Atleast they can say they did something different (unless the iPod already does that)

People who are used to creative daps would understand that you can easily jump across huge playlists (lists) by scrolling thru the alphabets - thats why a 'dedicated' scroller is not really necessary.



song.exe

Comments: 4
 		Jul 27 (2005) 10:20PM  

It's nice...I like the way it looks

By the way, how much is the iStation in USD?



vince

Comments: 115
 		Jul 28 (2005) 02:27AM  

"Don't forget the white version of the Vision.. also another knock-off of Apple's ground-breaking innovations."

Sarcasm doesn't translate well into type. Right?!?



sevans

Guest
 		Jul 28 (2005) 02:42AM  

So let's start selling them already! I definitely want one. 30gb isn't perfect but but I can live with it. 60gb would make me buy one today.



Pepperoni

Guest
 		Jul 28 (2005) 04:15AM  

Any idea when the istation i2 would be available and for how much?



whitebloodcell

Comments: 35
 		Jul 28 (2005) 07:19AM  

I like the istation 2 but the vision just has such a nice screen. The higher res really makes a difference (if comparing my new PDA to my old PDA when playing vids)



Flid

Comments: 262
 		Jul 28 (2005) 08:12AM  

Sownd,
Just a quickee comment... but yeah... the iPod photo already changes colour (green to red) when you the battery level is getting "low". It's not a gentle gradiated fade though.

However... I think this looks real nice aswell. A definite step forward for Creative. Best fo luck to 'em.



Scarpad

Comments: 65
 		Jul 28 (2005) 10:40AM  

Not Bad but I'd still like to see a PMP have a widescreen aspect ratio. It's a toss up I would use it for alot of TV so 4x3 works there, I just think widescreen movies would be way too small on it.



silverghozt

Comments: 20
 		Jul 28 (2005) 11:39AM  

I don't see album art either. This is a huge oversight.



sevans

Guest
 		Jul 28 (2005) 12:50PM  

Gone again from the creative site...



silverghozt

Comments: 20
 		Jul 28 (2005) 04:08PM  

wtf?? why do they remove it again?


whitebloodcell

Comments: 35
 		Jul 28 (2005) 06:09PM  

I don't understand why they keep posting it and removing. What is the point?! I'm sure it will have album art, does their current PMP?



sevans

Guest
 		Jul 28 (2005) 06:56PM  

One interesting thing is that when the page was available today it had "Now availabe for pre-order!" at the top of the page. No link from it but we're obviously close to release.



Billy Gun

Guest
 		Jul 28 (2005) 10:36PM  

I had a Nomad Jukebox 3 (40gb) from Creative, and now I have a 60Gb Ipod (Photo).

Creative Players have much more music ways to play music, you can easyly add or remove musics or albums from the "now playing", I can't do that on my Ipod. It's much easyer to make a playlist on the creative player.

The only problem of creative firmwere is that you can't see artist under genre.

I bought the Ipod cuz, creative have no player with 60gb with album art viewing.



Anonymous

Guest
 		Jul 29 (2005) 03:04AM  

"I don't understand why they keep posting it and removing."

If they didn't, the news and therefore the page you just typed that one would not exist.

Creative knows they got the bait, now they are just teasing all the fish.



whitebloodcell

Comments: 35
 		Jul 29 (2005) 08:01AM  

Yes but if they merely wanted people to notice it wouldnt leaving it up on the site achieve that better. But anyways, after googling for a while I noticed a couple places speculate Europe and the US won't see this until Novemeber time. I disagree but thats not good if true.



silverghozt

Comments: 20
 		Jul 29 (2005) 11:46AM  

From Creative customer support:

When asked about album art feature: "We do not have all of the information about the features and benefits of the Zen Vision. Once we get closer to the products launch we may have more information."

When asked about release date: "Unfortunately we do not have an official release date on the Zen Vision at this time."


silverghozt

Comments: 20
 		Jul 29 (2005) 12:39PM  

[Linky]

If you look closely, you'll notice that ablum art is not displayed when music is playing. I think they have overlooked this feature.


iRiverRox

Comments: 5
 		Jul 29 (2005) 02:19PM  

I saw it on CNN yesterday...


Robert Sinke

Comments: 1221
 		Jul 29 (2005) 02:59PM  

Gizmodo has just experienced the might vaporizing powers that are within Zen Vision's product page. [Linky] .



Robert Sinke

Comments: 1221
 		Jul 29 (2005) 03:04PM  

eh *mighty vaporizing powers, actually.

logged anyway


silverghozt

Comments: 20
 		Jul 29 (2005) 04:31PM  

ha! i saw it earlier today before the update...


bshort

Guest
 		Jul 29 (2005) 05:29PM  

What the heck?

I have $500 sitting in my bank account that's waiting for the Zen Vision.



^_^

Guest
 		Jul 30 (2005) 01:40PM  

Normally Creative will introduce their new products in their Creative warehouse sale.There will be 1 on the upcoming september in Singapore so i guess This device may be out around that time


JustMe

Guest
 		Jul 31 (2005) 02:27AM  

It's gone again. Shame on Creative for playing this stupid cat and mouse game. Just leave the site alone, it's sure to create more interest that way instead of frustrating visitors (potential buyers?).



silverghozt

Comments: 20
 		Aug 01 (2005) 06:45PM  

They're probably trying to get rid of the stock of that other medial player that they sell.


Chirality

Guest
 		Aug 01 (2005) 09:42PM  

I was bored and I wanted to visualize how the size of this compares to that of the iPod and similar-sized players. This is the best I could do without actually owning either player.



Robert Sinke

Comments: 1221
 		Aug 01 (2005) 09:51PM  

Way to get bored, Chirality ... Nice one!



sevans

Guest
 		Aug 01 (2005) 10:34PM  

Another pic and supposedly a $400 price according to the SF Chronicle.

LINK



Anonymous

Guest
 		Aug 03 (2005) 09:58AM  

Looks like it's finally out. Check it out at
[Linky]


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