Creative Zen Vision W (30GB, Black) - Expert Reviews

Award: Editor's Choice!

Review summary: The "TopTenREVIEWS Bronze Award" goes to one of our favorite MP3 companies- Creative Technology. The Creative Zen products consistently do well in our reviews, and even though they are loaded with features, they are constantly living in the shadow of ...

Review summary: The Zen Vision, Creative's latest effort to craft the ultimate portable video player (PVP), improves on its predecessor, the Zen Portable Media Center, in almost every way. Though it's smaller and more elegant, it packs a larger 30GB hard drive and a ...

Review summary: While Apple continues to play hard to get on the subject of a video iPod, rival Creative has already released the second generation of its portable media player, and this is it: the Zen Vision W

Pros: Bright screen. Good viewing angle. Decent ergonomics.

Cons: Limited formats supported. Poor built-in speaker. Can't record from TV.

Verdict: The Zen Vision W is a comprehensive hardware solution for portable video, but one that lacks a comprehensive software solution to back it up. If this device embraced open-source encoding and supported a wider variety of video codecs, it would be the ...

Review summary: A great alternative to the iPod Classic, particularly if movies are your priority

Pros: Easy to use; good value for money; excellent music and movie playback

Cons: Not much really