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New rival for Zune, iPod
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redarrow
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All 3 of them are junk 
When are they going to design a decent media player that supports Ogg Vorbis ???
Come on people ... it's an open format ... not very difficult to support!
Oh and ... it's got to work under Linux - technically also very simple, just make it work like a "usb mass storage" device 
When are they going to design a decent media player that supports Ogg Vorbis ???
Come on people ... it's an open format ... not very difficult to support!
Oh and ... it's got to work under Linux
- technically also very simple, just make it work like a "usb mass storage" device Darth Garth
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Creative should rather stick to making overpriced soundcards and speakers.
I like the top of the range iAudio. I think it plays almost everything.
redarrow
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You mean this gadget: http://www.lordpercy.com/mpio_hd200_review.htm ? Yea it doesn't look too bad
just lacks video/photo support ...Like this one: http://www.cowonamerica.com/products/iaudio/x5/ ?noxibox said:
It looks like just the thing for me
... Video & Photo ... it even displays text files, yea they claim it to have Ogg support!! Usb mass storage! They even claim to officially support Linux... Must look into this one...
All 3 of them are junk
When are they going to design a decent media player that supports Ogg Vorbis ???
Come on people ... it's an open format ... not very difficult to support!
Oh and ... it's got to work under Linux
Well that's your opinion. I'm the owner of a 3rd Gen iPod for a few years now and since February the owner of the Creative Zen Vision 30GB - both of which I bought in the US, for about 50% of the local price. The Creative Zen Vision is a sleek machine, it has a crisp 640by480 LCD screen - the sharpest of any video player, it plays audio exquisitively and can also record voice, play radio,
display JPEGs and even download pictures from a CF card. I'm really chuffed with my player, I carry it everywhere with me, and the sharp resolution allows me to view subtitles from fansubbed or DVD-ripped Anime without probems. The video is smooth, no frame loss, the new firmware has
even allowed for cover art to be shown while the songs play. The player plays MP3's, WMA and WAV files. For video it plays DivX 4 and 5, XviD,
MPEG1, 2, and 4 video, MJPEG and other formats. It outputs 720by576 (PAL)
or NTSC SD resolution if you encode your video files that way, on it's coposite out cable. Its brilliant. Sadly the newer player, the Creative Zen Vision W (for Widescreen) features an LCD screen of lower resolution but it's otherwise just as capable. You can also use the CZV as mass storage under Windows. Just drag and drop.
Build quality is Apple grade. I dropped my CZV a good few times without issues. Sure it's wrapped in a leather MysticAudio case which I bought seperately but it never missed a beat. I've had the player crash once on me while playing a video file and running, it crashed, then rebooted and rebuilt it's index file and within 25 seconds I could
replay the same video file without any hardware damage or data loss.
My little review on Take2 with pictures:
http://www.take2.co.za/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10455
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