Interesting news/reviews/deals from the portable audio market
Q4 financial results and conference call notes
$230.9M in sales ($305.4M a year ago)
$12.7M net loss ($31.9M a year ago)
Verdict? Betten than last year, but stil… Michael from epiZENter also jotted some notes from the conference call—interesting to see they’re pushing the X-Fi technology, talking about a future product that is connected to the Zen Vision:M [...]
Creative to sell Zen Vision:M without the AC adapter: in an effort to slash prices, Creative introduces the Zen Vision:M SD, which is the Zen Vision:M we’ve all grown to love without an AC adapter (as Apple does with the iPods for a couple of years now), and an additional unidentified acronym added at the [...]
How-to: adding album art to the Zen Vision:M retrospectively: using Zen Media Explorer and setting the view to “Album”.
How-to: rip your DVDs so they’re properly reproduced on the Zen Vision:M: “This guide uses DVD Decrypter and AutoGK which is free open source software so it will cost you nothing.” Read our presentation of the Zen Vision:M.
From the wicked cool department—How-to: turn your wireless mouse into an iTunes remote: this is great. Using a [...]
Woah! Check out the screen comparison between Creative’s Zen Vision:M and Apple’s iPod video: evidence #1, evidence #2 [via]. Creative’s got a winner in the screen department, no doubt about that. Also, its TV output looks much better too. Good news for the competition.
Check out the rest of the photos to get a better feel [...]
We’ve reported on it last week, and it’s finally here. Creative’s reply to the iPod Video, named Zen Vision:M (press release).
You can’t help but notice the clear similarity between it and the iPod Video when it comes to the graphical interfaces. “Couldn’t they have at least changed the battery indicator’s color?” is a thought that [...]
Yeah, yeah—Creative Zen Vision:M presentation coming: I’ve received a handful of emails regarding this, and yes, the Creative Zen Vision:M presentation is worked on as we speak and will be posted later today.
I’ve decided to skip the “for the sake of being fast, let’s just say it’s out, post the specs, and be done with [...]