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Creative Xmod Improves CD Quality

Based on Creative’s X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity audio platform, the Creative Xmod improves the music quality playback for MP3, WMA, iTunes or AAC songs to beyond the origial CD quality the company reported. So what exactly is the Xmod? It’s a small device that connects between your speakers, headphones and either the PC, Mac, or any MP3 player and works by upconverting the audio to a 24-bit surround audio rate.

The Creative Xmod supposedly enhances the low and high frequencies to produce a richer audio experience. If you plan to connect the Xmod to your MP3 player, you must use the "optionally" required AC adapter – for an extra price of course.  Read more...

Creative Zen Vision W Touts 4.3-Inch Screen

Creative Zen Vision W Touts 4.3-Inch Screen

Fresh off its settlement with Apple Computer, Creative has announced is much-rumored Zen Vison W portable media player, sporting a 4.3-inch 16:9 widescreen portable media player, with a 30 GB capacity and oodles and video, image, and music playback capability. The problem: for now, at least, the unit will only be available in Singapore, and there’s no word when it may reach North American shores.

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Apple Settles with Creative for $100 Mln

In a surprising development, Apple Computer has agreed to settle ongoing patent battle with Creative Technology for $100 million, putting an end the so-called “iPod patent” dispute between the two companies.

Under the terms of the settlement, Apple has agreed to pay Creative $100 million for a paid-in-full license to use Creative’s “Zen” patent in all Apple products, including the iPod. Apple can recoup a portion of the $100 million payment if Creative can successfully license the patent to other parties. What’s more, Creative will be joining Apple’s “Made for iPod” program and creating its own line of iPod accessory products.  Read more...

Creative Ships New Standard/Music Keyboard

Creative Ships New Standard/Music Keyboard

Creative Technology yesterday announced a dual-function device which integrates a standard keyboard with a PC-MIDI keyboard. The new Prodikeys PC-MIDI is priced at $39 and should be available this month.

The Prodikeys PC-MIDI, which is USB compatible, features multimedia keyboard functions such as customizable

Creative Has A Zen Vision

There’s a hot new portable video player out from Creative today. The Zen Vision, priced at $399.99, is available for pre-order at Creative’s website.

The Zen Vision, said Creative, features a 30GB hard drive and comes in white or black. It offers up a 3.7” high-resolution color LCD for photo viewing and video playback. Among the many features the Zen Vision offers, the list includes MP3 and WMA/WMA-DRM audio file playback, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV, MJPEG and TivoToGo video file playback, JPEG picture display, a built-in FM radio with recording feature, a Compact Flash card slot, USB 2.0 support, built-in microphone for voice recording, personal information organizer and a multi-function alarm clock.  Read more...

Creative Sells 2 Million MP3 Players

“”This was our second consecutive quarter of selling two million MP3 players, an achievement that further positions us as an industry leader in the explosive MP3 market,” Sim Wong Hoo, Creative’s CEO said in prepared remarks.

Hoo said that his company will continue to aggressively price its players, but warned that it would move profit margins lower in the short-term.

Craig McHugh, president of Creative conceded that the company is beginning to feel the financial pressure of Apple’s strategies. McHugh said that the price drops in the iPod Mini were larger and the aggressive pricing of the iPod Shuffle was lower than expected. Due to this, Creative’s gross margins came in lower than the company’s guidance. “  Read more...

Microsoft Portable Media Centers Available

Microsoft Corp. today announced that the first Windows Mobile (TM) -based Portable Media Centers from Creative Labs Inc. will be available to the public tomorrow at Best Buy and Creative.com and inthe coming weeks from Amazon.com Inc., CompUSA Inc., Fry’s Electronics, Good Guys Inc. and other electronics retailers nationwide. Portable Media Centers from Samsung Electronics and iRiverInternational will be available later this fall. Microsoft also solidified content sources for Portable Media Centers, with the first online offerings from MLB Advanced Media (MLB.com) and CinemaNowInc., as well as support from four digital TV tuner card manufacturers and software company SnapStream Media Inc. These announcements give people an increasing range of choices for video content theycan watch any time, any place.

Portable Media Centers are a new category of multimedia players that allow people to enjoy all the digital entertainment they store on their PC — recorded TV, music, movies and pictures — on one device. Portable Media Centers are one of three new digital entertainment products being introduced by Microsoft tomorrow, Sept. 2, including Windows Media® Player 10 and the MSN® Music Service. Windows Media Player 10 lets consumers easily discover, play and transport digital media around the home, on the PC or onto portable devices. MSN will launch a preview release of its MSN Music service in the United States tomorrow, offering music fans access to more than 1 million tracks licensed from all five major labels and more than 3,000 independent labels. Tracks from MSN Music will be available for playback on Portable Media Centers in Windows Media Audio format.

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Creative intros new 60GB Jukebox Zen player

With the amazing capacity to store 16,000 songs, the NOMAD Jukebox Zen with 60GB fits easily in a pocket and can carry a huge library of music anywhere with generous disk space remaining for data storage. The NOMAD Jukebox Zen with 60GB will be available in May for only US$399.99.  Read more...

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