Creative Has A Zen Vision

By DT Staff Published July 25, 2014

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 3.7â€ 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.

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Measurements on this portable video player come in at 4.9â€ x 2.9â€ x 0.8â€ with a weight of 8.4 ounces. The standard rechargeable battery is capable of playing up to 13 hours of music or 4.5 hours of video.

“The Zen Vision is our most versatile and coolest-looking digital entertainment player ever,” said Sim Wong Hoo, chairman and CEO of Creative. “It supports download and subscription music services, photo transfer directly from a Compact Flash card or up to 17 variations of media through our optional Compact Flash Adapter. With the SharpPix technology, your digital photos can look even better than prints. Plus the Zen Vision supports video from TiVoToGo(TM) and popular Internet video formats including DivX(TM), so it’s really easy and fun to enjoy your favorite music, photos and videos wherever you go.”

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