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Creative Zen Vision W (30GB)

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Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 49 reviews Back to product review
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4.5 stars

"Wonderful player with an abundance of features."

by ArtC1 on October 9, 2006

Pros: Almost a perfect 10 for my intended purpose.

Cons: Could use some firmware changes.
Summary: My primary reason for purchasing the ZVW is storing and viewing photos while traveling and I believe I have made a good choice. I purchased a CF card adapter and am able to upload photos from all of my digital cameras. Thanks to the ZVW I no longer need to lug my laptop around on photo shoots or vacations.

The screen resolution, color accuracy, viewing angles, etc. are excellent.

Sound quality is very good and I was quite surprised with the sound quality of the built-in speaker.

The graphical user interface (GUI) does the job in a fairly reasonable manner but I can think of many changes that I would like to see.

Voice recording is fair to good but given the size of the unit I didn't expect much.

The unit is very well constructed although a bit heavy.

I don't care for the positioning of the Navigation, Options and Play/Pause Buttons, they are too close together for large fingers.

Moving data within the ZVW is prohibited which is especially frustrating when it comes to importing photos from a Compact Flash. A minor firmware revision should easily fix the problem.

Overall, I think the ZVW is a fine product but unless you intend to watch portable movies or use it for photo storage as I do, it is much too big and heavy for an MP3 player. This is not a knock on the product, I don't think it was designed to be an MP3 player with many options, rather it is a Personal Video Player that plays MP3's.

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