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REVIEWS & ARTICLES (13)
 
Published
Sep 1, 2004
Editor Rating
3.5/5
Creative Zen Portable Media Center Review & Rating | PCMag.com
Stylish looks...Exceptional battery life...Good audio and photo playback....Screen is susceptible to glare and smudges...Recorded video looks bad on a full-size TV...No kickstand....Recorded video looks bad on a full-size TV...For a first iteration, the Creative Zen Portable Media Center delivers on the promise of PMCs and Windows Media Player 10...For a first iteration,...
Editor Rating
3.0/5
Creative Zen Portable Media Center - Computeractive - product reviews you can trust
Portable digital audio players like the Apple iPod exist thanks to file compression technology such as MP3...Creative's Zen Portable Media Center takes advantage of this...Just like the PC version, you can use Portable Media Center to rate your music...Inevitably, devices such as this are the next step in portable digital media...
Published
Feb 1, 2005
Editor Rating
87.0/100
Creative Zen Portable Media Center Apex MP-2000 Portable Media Player | Home Theater
However, when you connect the Zen to a TV of any real size via its included cables, these videos might not look as good, so I view this portable device as an easy, not ideal, way to display and share PC content beyond the PC...The removable, replaceable lithium-ion battery is good for about three full-length movies or about 20 hours of music, which you can enjoy through the adequate built-in...
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FORUMS & BLOGS (20)
 
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81 user reviews
 
(3.45 out of 5)
Average rating
from 40
reviews
3.4/5
Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Creative Zen 20 GB Portable Media Center
"Since the application is fairly turnkey, it's probably a good choice for moving content from DVD's you own to your Zen..."

"Having used it for a day or so I have a wish list of features that the Zen doesn't have (nothing here is a killer problem, but would make a good product even better..."

"The player sounds good, the UI is great, and the size is very convenient, and the features are fantastic..."

Average rating
from 16
reviews
3.8/5
Creative Zen Portable Media Center Overview & User Reviews - Portable Video Players...
"Built in LCD has good resolution..."

"Manuals were not very useful as they really didn’t do a good job of explaining different formats required and where to find the codecs for these since they didn’t supply them..."

"The battery life on the player is very good..."

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Average rating
from 15
reviews
3.9/5
Creative Zen Portable Media Center - Creative MP3 Players Reviews and Prices at PriceGrabber
"Another good thing is that the menus are simple and user friendly.I highly recommend this media center..."

"Creative Zen looked really good at the store, so I bought it..."

"The player sounds good, the UI is great, and the size is very convenient, and the features are fantastic..."

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Published
Sep 20, 2004
Editor Rating
5.0/6
Creative Zen Portable Media Center | Network media streamers | Reviews | PC Pro
The Zen successfully brings Portable Media Center to life...Vertical viewing angles are a touch narrow, but horizontal angles are just good enough, without fellow passengers being able to see what you're watching...These minor complaints aside, the Zen is a good first stab at bringing Portable Media Center to life...
Published
Sep 2, 2004
 
 
Review of Creative's new Zen Portable Media Center -- Engadget
It was a long time in coming, but the first personal video players running on Microsoft's Portable Media Center software are just about to arrive...The soundbite is that we think the Portable Media Center is good for folks with Media Center PCs and PCs with TV tuner cards which can record TV-that's really the one killer feature of these...
Editor Rating
3.0/5
:: LAPTOP Magazine • Creative Zen Portable Media Center / Windows Media Player 10...
• Generous display • Very intuitive interface • Long battery life...• No AV-in for direct video recording • Confusing controls • Transferring recorded TV is difficult...Let people take all of their music, pictures, home videos, and TV shows with them on a single device...But Microsoft's Portable Media Center platform is...
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Creative's Zen Portable Media Center with Windows Media Player 10 - Final Thoughts/What...
Building the platform was hard enough, and if consumers decide they don't like the restrictions DRM imposes on them, Portable Media Center could wind up being a technology that's all dressed up with nowhere to go...Microsoft has put the pieces in place to enable subscription-based audio and video content, and Creatives player is a pretty good (though not perfect)...
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Published
Sep 22, 2004
 
 
Creative Zen Portable Media Center review | Expert Reviews
Now Microsoft has launched a new operating system for this kind of device, which it calls Portable Media Center...The Zen PMC is fairly large at 275x145x8mm, but includes a large battery which allowed us to watch video for over five hours...The quality of converted video is fine for viewing on the Zen and good enough to watch on a connected TV...
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Published
Mar 25, 2007
 
 
Creative Zen Portable Media Center PMC Firmware Download - DownloadTube.com
This firmware update is for Creative Zen Portable Media Center users...You will lose all content in your player when you install the new firmware...Removes extraneous sound occuring when the player is turned off in Radio mode, using the Wired Remote...
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Published
Sep 16, 2004
 
 
Review: Creative Zen Portable Media Center - PC Advisor
But Microsoft has bigger ambitions with the launch of Portable Media Center: Why restrict yourself to just audio on the move when you could have video, recorded TV and photos as well...While Creative looks like it will be first to market with the Zen Portable Media Center, expect devices from Samsung and iRiver soon...Good points: video on the move...
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Creative Zen Portable Media Center Review - Portable Video ...
Eight months after its announcement, the Creative Zen PMC is finally here. Despite its bulk, the player is solid, but it's the Microsoft Portable Media ...
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Portable Media Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The first Portable Media Center product released was the Creative's Zen Portable Media Center. All PMCs are able to play audio files in MP3 and display images in JPEG...
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Creative Zen Vision W - Portable Media Player Reviews by ...
Bottom and top views of the Creative Zen Vision W. You'll use the standard 4-way d-pad with center OK button and the back button just above it to navigate the menus ...
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Average rating
from 5
reviews
3.0/5
Creative Technology Portable Media Center (20 GB) Digital Media Player Product Reviews...
"Lacks features from the full media center..."

"easy to use, and love its ability to save and show photos! In car sounds as good as the car CD Good battery life..."

"This machine looks and acts like it is from my grandparents era, it is big and bulky and to be honest, by the time you have ripped the media you want, the quality is considerably poor compared to the majority of its kind..."

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Average rating
from 1
reviews
5.0/5
Creative Zen Portable Media Center Plays music video and photos at Crutchfield.com
"This is a good digital entertaiment and is very good and you can handle where ever you are..."

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Average rating
from 3
reviews
3.0/5
Creative Zen Portable Media Center 20 GB Digital Media Player - Reviews @ Yahoo!...
"it specifically stated that it works only with windows xp..."

"A good lesson from this is to read about any products before you rush into buying it or you be end up like #1..."

"I Great Idea Nothing to download, mega $$$ for nothing I can't use on Mac, can't get TV or DVDs to burn, this thing is useless..."

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Average rating
from 1
reviews
4.0/5
Creative Labs Product Reviews and Ratings - Hard Drive Players - Zen Portable Media...
"Easy To Set Up, Easy To Use, High Capacity, Reliable It's Bulky I bought one to give as a gift and ended up buying another for myself..."

"And the sync process, it's just a matter of connecting and selecting what you'd like to have on your portable media center..."

"It's like taking your cds, movies, and photos with you..."

"everywhere! Just wonderful..."

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Creative ZEN Vision W Microsite - View interactive demo ...
Learn about its powerful multimedia features and how to maximise your digital entertainment experience with the widescreen ZEN Vision W media player...
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creative zen portable media center and vista - Microsoft ...
My Creative Zen PMC is a great personal media player. Problem is that when I upgraded from Win 2000 Pro to Win Vista, I can no longer sync to the PMC. It ...
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