New Toy
Well I decided to purchase a new toy - Creative Zen Vision M. I was thinking of buying a new mp3 player (as my old thumb stick Rio Flash player has a cracked screen - from one too many drops). Well, to my surprise, the new toy has been much more beneficial than I could have imagined. I've been listening to it every day at work, helps me stay focused and to eliminate the cubicle white noise (constant phones, people bitchin', printer noise, computer hum, etc).
I purchased the Creative Zen Vision M 30gb mp3 player. This thing is amazing. I'm able to copy over movies (XviD, DIVX, etc), I've even setup a script to convert my PVR'd shows (from MythTV) into a format the Zen will play - stocking up for the day I will be taking the subway again.
Susie has a video ipod. She loves her ipod - for me my decision not to buy the ipod was the screen - the Creative Zen has a better display. With the Ipod, I've watched a few movies and it gave me a headache. With the Zen, I'm able to watch movies (even though its a tiny screen) and the picture is much better and no headaches.
The other thing I've been happy with was the pretty painless integration with ubuntu. Thanks to ubuntuforums.org I was up and running in less than 15 minutes. Whereas, with the Ipod it took me a little bit longer to get Susie's ipod hooked up and working.
My one complaint is the cheap headphones included with the Zen. I've been listening to it at work all week and my ears have been starting to hurt. I have an older pair of Sony DJ 500's. Plugging the Sony's into the Zen was like moving from Tapes to CD. The Sony's are a little bulky, but I forgot how good they sound.
No more toys for me for a while, time to finish paying off my debt and save for our Holland trip coming up.....
I purchased the Creative Zen Vision M 30gb mp3 player. This thing is amazing. I'm able to copy over movies (XviD, DIVX, etc), I've even setup a script to convert my PVR'd shows (from MythTV) into a format the Zen will play - stocking up for the day I will be taking the subway again.
Susie has a video ipod. She loves her ipod - for me my decision not to buy the ipod was the screen - the Creative Zen has a better display. With the Ipod, I've watched a few movies and it gave me a headache. With the Zen, I'm able to watch movies (even though its a tiny screen) and the picture is much better and no headaches.
The other thing I've been happy with was the pretty painless integration with ubuntu. Thanks to ubuntuforums.org I was up and running in less than 15 minutes. Whereas, with the Ipod it took me a little bit longer to get Susie's ipod hooked up and working.
My one complaint is the cheap headphones included with the Zen. I've been listening to it at work all week and my ears have been starting to hurt. I have an older pair of Sony DJ 500's. Plugging the Sony's into the Zen was like moving from Tapes to CD. The Sony's are a little bulky, but I forgot how good they sound.
No more toys for me for a while, time to finish paying off my debt and save for our Holland trip coming up.....
posted by CutlaS at 6:32 PM
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