Comments on: Creative Zen Vision W Review – 60 GB Personal Media Player

By: andrea

andrea — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:02:17 +0000

i have the same problem!!!

By: Sergiu

Sergiu — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:04:32 +0000

Hi! I own a creative zen w and it is broken now. I cannot get it to start. It shows the “Creative Zen W” screen and it stops there. Is there a reset button to it? Or is there something I can do to reset it? I tried taking the batery out but it’s still not working… could you please help?

By: mountaindiu

mountaindiu — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:21:52 +0000

i had the old vision:m and it was a awesome reliable player. although i moved on to a ipod video 60gb i do miss being able to play avi/divx videos. The vision:w does look a bit too big though. For nothappy you can use windows media player to copy the files over.

By: nothappy

nothappy — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:02:02 +0000

hy,i got creative zen!that thing is stupid,i got win xp with sp1 and of course,its needs sp2 or better,so basicly i need to change my computers Software to put some mp3 on the player,why?is there realy
people who wona doo all that just to lisen to some music,and why nobody told me about things like that when i both the frikin thing,its aint cheap too,so whats the crack?maybe somebody can help me to get this done without spending hours at the computer luking for some upgrades and installing and uninstalling things,i just dont have time for all that sh,i just wont that thing to work.thanks

By: sam

sam — Sat, 31 May 2008 18:37:02 +0000

Hi this is kinda weird !! my little brother sticked a Nokia charger inside the headset port (since he assumed that it fits there :\) so i had 2 ICs burned inside !! right behind the port (yellow colored) so i had them changed i started my zen !! it worked very well ! i entered the recovery mode (by using the battery thing) formated the hard drive and it formated verywell then erased the old firmware and connected the zen to my pc the upgraded the firmware and the zen rebooted after finish !! but the peoblem is i see the “Creative” logo and the “ZEN” logo when it start my zen but then i see NOTHING only a black screen

what do you think the problem is ?! please help

By: John Lord

John Lord — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:41:29 +0000

Sad to report, word I got from Creative is that they are NOT making the Zen Vision anymore, or the docking stations which I never knew existed and cannot find even listed on eBay. Here’s the email I got from Creative when I asked them about a docking station:

“Dear John,

Thank you for reaching us at Creative Email Technical Support. I appreciate the opportunity to assist you. I am sorry for the trouble you having.
I understand that you are wanting to know why there is no docking station for the Zen Vision. The Zen Vision is no longer being manufactured and this is the same for the docking station, and we are out of stock and no longer able to order. As for as the Xdock this is one of the Wireless sound systems that we manufacture and it is designed for the Ipod the other XFI wireless will work with our MP3 players using the line in feature

I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

If you still require assistance, please reply to this email with any previous correspondence to ensure the quickest and most accurate service.

Best Regards,

Wayne
Technical Support
Creative Labs Americas”

I bought mine on a close-out sale price at Circuit City in December 2007 just before Christmas. Best Buy didn’t carry them at all.
Needless to say, I will be VERY careful not to misplace my Zen Vision W, which I also love. I also use it to record the lectures in my college classes. I have two 1ï¿½ hour lectures, back to back and the battery on it holds up just fine while recording them. When classmates miss a class, I off-load the lecture and burn it to CD to give them the next time they show up.

I also own a very tiny Creative Nomad Muvo 128mb mp3 player that I use to listen to my Audible.com audio books on.

I love my Creative products and only wish they hung in there with the Zen Vision.

John Lord

p.s. – I found a web page somewhere that a hobbyist described how he opened his Zen Vision and replaced the hard drive with a 1.8″ 100GB drive designed for the iPod and now has probably the worlds only (or at least, first) 100GB Zen Vision W. I probably won’t be doing that since i don’t want to risk breaking my Zen. Besides, the drive costs about what the 60GB Zen did and if I just go buy a used 60GB Zen Vision W, then I’ll own two Zens with a total of 90Gb between them with no risky hardware hacking.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:15:02 +0000

Good morning all,

So I love(d) my Zen W 60gig. I used it daily on a lot of aspects of my life. But sometime in Dec I seemed to have misplaced it. I have ripped apart my house, call, office.. it Can not be found. So I figured I would just buy a new one. But it looks like Creative is not making them anymore? They are no in stock Anywhere.. they just seem like they are gone from market. Have anyone heard anything about this? I really can’t seem to find a good replacement for this.. I need a nice screen, a big HD, and a card reader slot. All the Archos look great, but without that card reader slot, it is a no go for me.

Also, it seems like the “Pages:” (Â« 1 2 3 4 5 [6] Show All) links on this page above are not working within FF and IE.

-Jeff
http://www.carabs.com

By: Fightinsurfgrl

Fightinsurfgrl — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:19:11 +0000

Dear John,
Thanks for the awesome review of this player. I just picked mine up yesterday and I love it. I’m having a slight problem. AVI files will play only for about 4-11 seconds then it freezes. What’s happening? I tried removing the file and putting back on still same issue. What would I do?

By: ioana

ioana — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:38:01 +0000

I absolutely loveee this player! Just like in your case, money was no object, I just wanted to get the best suitable player for me. I actually bought an iPod before this and it was a horrible experience! Their software sucks and the screen is way too small. Plus that navigation wheel was driving me crazy. The Zen W has a very nice sized screen and it’s so easy to transfer media into the player. I had an old Creative player before (the B&W version) and I liked that one too because of the easy file transfer system and navigation. I still have trouble getting my videos in from Adobe Premiere, but I’m still learning. I found your review very useful.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:28:22 +0000

well, maybe thats telling you something? perhaps?

By: DDT-WEBKINZ

DDT-WEBKINZ — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:22:19 +0000

I agree with andyee2, you need to have a widescreen video player. It would improve viewing for everyone.

By: DDT-WEBKINZ

DDT-WEBKINZ — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:20:46 +0000

But I thought Al Gore invented the internet …

By: Richie

Richie — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:38:13 +0000

Ive even got is showing on xp, vista on my mac using parallels

By: Richie

Richie — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:36:36 +0000

I just use Vista to convert and add to the player from bit torrent…no problems here…also no creative software

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:58:19 +0000

creative might eventually make a patch or something to cover windows vista.

By: rick

rick — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:33:01 +0000

ALL I know CREATIVE won’t answer technical questions accurately – If you e-mail them..I Think all they do is READ THE MANUAL.
CREATIVE Software is not Vista Compatible either. – So If you want to use their software you will need a computer runnin’ XP – I’m not happy with the software at all – other thing I’ve found out: You won’t be able to convert some files to AVI if you have QUICKTIME 2.2 You need to downgrade this VERSION! – its a PAIN!
And the thing I HATE MOST!! – “CAN NOT CREATE VIDEO PLAYLIST” its a most for MUSIC VIDEOS!

By: Richie

Richie — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 02:41:27 +0000

I agree…they do need more power options

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:01:19 +0000

sorry, i just realized you can reply to comments, it couldnt be done before,so iw asent used to it

its the little black oval-like thingie above the back button

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:58:25 +0000

its the little black oval-like thingie above the back button

By: nickolas

nickolas — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:11:35 +0000

where is the infrared on the crative zen vision w