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5 Reviews for Creative Zen V 4GB MP3 Player with Colour Screen - Black/Blue
Nifty little thing - 23 Mar 2008
0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
I had been looking around for a while for an MP3 player and this one's size and aesthetics caught my eye. On the size: you do not realise how small this actually is until you get it. The cardboard box Amazon sent it in was absolutely huge, and then nestling inside was the manufacturer's box, which is pretty small. You open that, and you see this thing that is as light as a feather. and small enough that you can close your hand around it and you can't see it from the outside.
Putting music on was no problem, and I also found that videos and pictures were really easy to put on also. The earphones included are of top quality, which makes all the difference, and even when pumped through speakers the sound quality remains great. Comparing it next to an I-pod with the same memory that costs twice as much (don't worry -not mine- a friends)the difference is staggering. The I-pod has no video playback, no radio, and the sound quality has a noticeable difference in that the Zen is a lot better. The I-pod also doesn't turn off, which I find very useful in the Zen for conserving battery.
It has survived a couple of collisions with the floor so far and I take it everywhere in my pocket- it's so small that you wouldn't notice that it is there.
I only have a couple of negative points-
1) It would be useful to have a mains charger. Not for home- just linking it up the the computer whenever you're on is ample- but for travelling it is a pain.
2) The earphones ARE amazing, but the fluffy bits that cover them come off very easily and get lost, so you end up without them which isn't great comfort in the ears.
Other then that- no complicated software, it's pretty much just drag and drop, easy to navigate the player, and overall a brilliant buy and VERY good value for money.
It would be great if it worked - 24 Jan 2008
0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
I have had this for two months and at first it was great. I wanted something that I could record plays and programmes of the radio via the Pc from the BBCs website and this worked great as it had a line in that you connected to the headphone socket on the Pc, so I could listen to plays etc in the middle of the night when I couldn't sleep or when doing the gardening. Then the problems started, it would turn itself off for no reason and not come on again, I would have to leave it for at least three hours and try again and it would come on then the screen started to freeze I could reset it with the reset button but then this would not unfreeze it so it was permanatly frozen so I have returned it to Amazon for a refund. It would be great if it worked, because you can record from anything with a headphone socket I wanted to record all my old LPs onto it perhaps I will have to wait until creative have ironed out the problems.
Creative Zen V 4Gb - 05 Dec 2007
0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
I found the players ability to store video sadly lacking in its current avi format. I managed to store one feature film. Non branded players using the avm format can store considerably more with a lower storage capacity and cost considerably less plus they have built in radio, games,play wma's,e-books, photos, mains charger and lead plus software. I have contacted Creative concerning this issue and at present the avi format is all that is being offered.It may change in the future. I found the software package useful if somewhat overcomplicated. The players redeeming feature is the ease of use for navigation and looks. I wouldn't recommend a Creative Zen V other than for storing music, photos or e-books.
dinky and brilliant! - 07 Nov 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful.
i went for this mp3 player after a disasterous venture into Sandisk!
i LOVE my Creative - it's dinky and does the job! - i seem to fill it with any music just to see if i can fill it up!
i bought this round about Feb/March time and after recently having a bit of play - have learnt now to add the videos!
ease of use and tons of space - thumbs up from me! - just a shame it didn't come in pink when i wanted it! ;-)
Good but not without faults: and it HAS VIDEO - 04 Nov 2007
4 out of 6 found this review helpful.
Before I begin, let me make it clear that this DOES have video playback functionality, despite it not being mentioned in Amazon's product description. This is bizarre because Amazon also sell an identical player but with video playback for £20 more. If this one has video, what's the more expensive player for? (ok so it has radio, but it's billed as being the video version of this one).
That out of the way, let's move onto the player itself. If you want a summary, this probably isn't the review for you, but if you want the ins and outs, here we go...
THE POSITIVES:
It's a dinky, nice-looking yet solid enough little thing. That said I can sympathise with the guy further down who thought it was a little too light, possibly feeling a little cheap, but this is a minor issue because the player's performance reminds you this isn't teh case. The design, as you can see, is fairly smooth and is a welcome break from its more rectangular rivals. The display is bright and the resolution is clear enough for viewing pics etc, it's certainly not pixelated, but don't expect to see a great deal in the blazing sun. Sound quality is very good and you can choose from pre-set equaliser settings (jazz, rock etc) or adjust it yourself. It also has the modern day must-have of bass-boost, which I find you don't really need (and I say that as someone obsessed with house and therefore for whom bass is important) but it's useful for the plane.
The software is teriffic and welcome relief from Sony's Sonic Stage, which would crash after 3 transfer max (I tried this on multiple PCs), put songs in the wronge order despite the tags being correct and blackmal you into first importing music into its library if I wanted to put music on my player. This, though, is a no-messing extension of the Windows Explorer interface. You can drag and drop files manually to the HD for convenience or use the transfer software, which will even convert files en-route to your desired bitrate (i.e. if your MP3s are in 320kbps they will arrive on your player in 128 if you want). Similarly with pictures, you have the option of rescaling them automatically to fit the player's resolution, so that a 1mb photo will end up on your player as a 20kb photo - nice touch. The software can also go and search your PC and fill up your player with as much music as it can fit, for those that don't really care what they listen to day to day from their collection and can't be bothered to transfer manually. It also comes with the standard player, library organiser and, handily, an audio converter.
The player is very customisable, from what options appear in the menu and the order they appear in, to setting the orientation of the screen (a throwback to Sony's idea some years back, where the buttons change role according to what orientation you have the screen set.) Nice feature, but ultimately needless, and instead the production budget should have gone to some more essential features notable by their absense, like...
THE NEGATIVES
The biggest annoyance with this player is that it can't rememebr where in a track you were when you turned it off. This might not sound like a big problem but it is if, like me, you listen to DJ mixes (which are often one long MP3, not split into tracks) or podcasts, radio shows etc. The need to mentally log how many minutes and seconds into a track you are when you want to switch it off, so that you can jump to that point when you resume, is not fun. Even my 30gb Sony, from which I downtraded to this and which was naff in just about every other way, managed this.
Next is the fact that it has no memory of how you went through menus, i.e. at which point on each menu did you go forward in the menus nest? For example, if I go to 'artist', then scroll down and select someone, then go forward to select an album, the next time I press 'menu' I won't be taken back step by step as I came through it. Instead, I'll have to start back at the top of the artists menu - annoying if you want to play the same artist but a different album.
Next up is the fact that the majority of text on the display is in white. How easy and useful it would have been to add a 'flip text colour' option, so that text was either black or white and would therefore work against any desktop backround you choose. As it is, you'll find yourselves only choosing light - i.e. predominantly white - background pictures and colour schemes so as to render the text readable.
Lastly, and this isn't really a negative of this player but of every player in history, it organises music only according to tags. As someone who organises his music library using folders and file-naming conventions, this is annoying, since I have to tag everything before it gets onto the player. I await the day that someone makes a player where you at least have the OPTION of music being organised by the folders they are naturally in on the player's HD, rather than by tags. Cheaper, menu-less players manage this fine. Why don't manufacturers realise not everyone organises his or her music using the library features of Windows Media Player, ITunes etc?
So there you have it. Overall I'm glad I bought it - it looks cool, sounds great and the software is a breath of freshair from Sony's Chronic Stage. You won't be disappointed.