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Creative MuVo Vidz - itz notz so newz after allz
comment: 21 | Wednesday, August 31 (2005) 07:54AM | Posted by Robert Sinke
What's this then? Yet *another* flash player by Creative? Why, yes it is - it's the MuVo Vidz. Or is it? This thing looks _an awful lot_ like the Sorell SF-3500. Even better - it's exactly the same in size (32 x 66 x 15.7 mm), weight (33 grams), capacity (512MB, 1GB... Sorell also came in 256MB) and feature set (as in "it supports video playback", MPEG4/DivX). The only thing that got scratched from the list is... drum roll.. Ogg Vorbis support.


Fool us once, shame on us. Fool us twice, shame on you (or was it the other way around? What do I know?). Kenwood has done it the vice versa way once (rebranding Creative's stuff)...but this is rather unique, as far as I can recall.

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Thanks, ironvcald & CK
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Anonymous

Guest
 		Aug 31 (2005) 09:42AM  

Hey, Creative does it all the time, just look at the Rhomba Series:

[Linky]

actually produced by Digital Cube (former Digital Square)

[Linky]



Anonymous

Guest
 		Aug 31 (2005) 09:49AM  

a mpio one's clone?



Hyper_Noodle

Comments: 226
 		Aug 31 (2005) 11:08AM  

WHy did they scratch OGG??? I don't get why Creative is so against supporting OGG.



mosquito

Guest
 		Aug 31 (2005) 11:30AM  

Guys, Sorell 3500 changed face? Or i see fake?
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Michael
Location: New York City
Comments: 2786
 		Aug 31 (2005) 11:57AM  

They need someone new in charge of their naming department. "Vidz" "Sleek"
It's dumb.



SSBen

Guest
 		Aug 31 (2005) 12:30PM  

I think it looks cool....when do they come out in the states??? Who cares about OGG, as long as WMA and DIvX is supported I am good. I like Creative products, they've been good to me so far



Lone

Comments: 973
 		Aug 31 (2005) 01:04PM  

You can tell it's not an 'original' Creative 'cause it has a joystick instead of their scroll lever deal.



1e

Guest
 		Aug 31 (2005) 01:20PM  

oh boy, ogg vorbis playback is the one main feature i look for in a DAP. back in the summer of '03 when i ripped by 500 cd's to .ogg it was quite the gamble, i had my eye on the Neuros for a long time, but now I've got a lot of options. But there's no excuse for supporting DivX but not ogg vorbis. rrrgh.

Yay, yay, let's pay an extra $0.75 for every mp3 player,
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does anyone know what the added royalty of a Plays For Sure or ASF is? is there a fee?


shiftis
Location: Canada
Comments: 369
 		Aug 31 (2005) 01:54PM  

I won't buy a DAP if it doesn't support OGG.



Hyper_Noodle

Comments: 226
 		Aug 31 (2005) 02:03PM  

Same here, Shiftis and 1e. I have all my CDs ripped to OGG, too. It's quite handy for really large collections, where even just a little bit of saved space is worth it. Not to mention the better sound quality. Maybe it's not so supported simply because it is open-source? DAP makers don't wanna take a chance that the codec changes, and then their players no longer support the format? (Just wild guesses =P)



Dominic
Location: Ireland.
Comments: 2396
 		Aug 31 (2005) 02:07PM  

i don't use vorbis, i have used before, for about 4 months, but i decided that its much too over rated, drains battery too much, and isn't supported enough anyway, also one of vorbis' tricks is to increase the pitch of sounds,making the .ogg file louder, which isn't always such a good thing. Mp3 with lame is the easiest for me, but i'd prefer just to have everything in flac,,,if only i had a 1 terabyte 1.8"HD



shiftis
Location: Canada
Comments: 369
 		Aug 31 (2005) 02:25PM  

A 1TB 1.8 inch HDD would be unbelievably great.



Dominic
Location: Ireland.
Comments: 2396
 		Aug 31 (2005) 02:30PM  

i can dream, but also i'd need some super kick ass batteries, anti matter??god damn dan brown, such a crappy author....



jv

Guest
 		Aug 31 (2005) 03:25PM  

Heh. Was I the only one that immediately thought "Rio" upon seeing the joystick and surrounding red? (Sorry; still caught up in the news.)



Robert Sinke

Comments: 1221
 		Aug 31 (2005) 03:31PM  

musquito, yeah indeed it looks quite different now. Still, that previous news item pretty much speaks for itself.



mosquito

Guest
 		Aug 31 (2005) 06:34PM  

ok? anybody can say me why they did it?
i saw how Toyota changed to Lexus and i understand them
but why Creative? other market? other price?



Dominic
Location: Ireland.
Comments: 2396
 		Aug 31 (2005) 07:00PM  

toyota changed to lexus?we have toyota and lexus over here



Robert Sinke

Comments: 1221
 		Aug 31 (2005) 08:01PM  

they probably just wanted a video-supporting flash player "off the shelves", saw the awesome SF-3500 at our site and got to work.



Robert Sinke

Comments: 1221
 		Aug 31 (2005) 08:29PM  

Lol, the wrong link was in this news item all day long. Sorry for any confusion. You can check out our original SF-3500 story here: [Linky] , which has been enclosed into the above news item as well.



_Ender

Comments: 50
 		Sep 01 (2005) 05:51AM  

I am sorry to say that but even here people look at brand name first and if they do not know it, they do not bother. Look at the number of comments under this article from May. 3 comments. Such a marvellous piece of electronics. And no-one bothered...



_Ender

Comments: 50
 		Sep 01 (2005) 06:09AM  

My point is Sorell might have produced good product but they must have been unable to sell it. So they sold it to somebody who can. I honestly cannot see anything wrong with that.
Number of comments to this news proves Sorell did right: If it say "Creative" people read the news and may buy it so that Sorell gets its share too. If it is Sorell, who cares.
Digital Cube is great. It is class of its own. But I wonder how many people here in Europe have ever heard of DC. So this is the same scenario. I like the SF-3500 design and feature set but I would never bother about a brand name like Sorell if I did not came to place like this forum. In my opinion it is Creative's another smart move.



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