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If you're not committed to video, and love MP3s, we would recommend that you test drive the interface on both the Zen Vision:M and the iPod and make your choice based on that.

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If you're looking for an extremely compact video player that's serious about full-length movie playback, there's no question: buy the Zen Vision:M. To Creative's credit, we've never before got to the point where the control interface is a player's only major shortfall, and many users will become used to the minor quirks of the scrolling functions on the Zen Vision:M.

The absence of an infinite-scroll capability - which the iPod's circular Clickwheel offers - is a sore point with the Zen Vision:M. We often found ourselves accidentally selecting items when we intended to continue scrolling. Despite its far superior feature set, the Zen Vision:M's thumbwheel is initially frustrating to use, and later just irritating on occasion. There is, however, one caveat with the Zen Vision:M, and that's the navigation controls on the unit. The Zen Vision:M's 4 hour battery life makes full-length movie watching a feasible enterprise.

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Admittedly Apple held back on proclaiming the video iPod to be a true portable video player, but given its comparative size, the Zen Vision:M embarrasses the iPod because it does portable video properly, whereas the iPod dabbles in it. In every sense this is a fully fledged portable video player. Where the Vision:M trumps the iPod is video playback.

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The Vision:M certainly left us slightly shaken at full volume - we could tolerate the sound level for a few seconds before it became physically punishing. If you like cranking your MP3 player into realms that guarantee later-life tinnitus, you'll be pleased to learn that the Zen Vision:M is capable of the same dangerous volumes that the iPod can generate when driven hard.

Preference is more a matter of taste than any specific deficiencies in either player - essentially they are equally capable at music playback without distortion or unwanted emphasis. After two weeks of fairly casual treatment, the Zen Vision:M was covered in fine scratches, but this is true of every glossy consumer electronic device, from the PSP to mobile phones.Ĭasual listening reveals little difference between the iPod and the Zen Vision:M on the majority of tracks. Although neither player is as volatile as the notorious iPod nano, you'd be advised to carry it in a pouch. The coating on the Zen Vision:M is no more scratch resistant than the iPod's. The Zen Vision:M's cable attaches to the slim port in the base of the player.Īt the base of the player there's an ominous reset button, and on the top edge there's a power on/hold button and a standard headphone socket. Apple's AV cable is an extra £15, and the resolution of iPod-formatted video is so low you wouldn't want to watch it on TV anyway. This allows you to stream video from the Zen Vision:M onto a full-sized television screen. This is the first clue about the Zen Vision:M's more serious AV intentions the second is the video cable Creative sent us. The screens on both players are identically sized, but a big difference reveals itself when the Zen Vision:M is switched on: it has a 262k colour screen, where the iPod can only display a paltry 64k. It's also a barely-perceptible 3g heavier.

The Zen Vision:M has exactly the same footprint as the iPod, but is thicker than its rival by 7mm - making it easy to slip into your pocket, but not quite as svelte as Apple's player.