Customer Reviews:
 Great MP3 September 15, 2008
This player is excellent for the price. However I do not like the battery life. It is very limited for my use. The battery is great for simple applications.
 Excellent sound, scratch resistant, awkward for iPod folks August 4, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Creative Zen V Plus is an evolutionary upgrade from the Creative Zen V which I have been using since it was released.
The Creative Zen V products use an incredibly scratch-resistant case. It seems to be made from a hard, formica-like substance that is at the same time soft enough that rubbing with your fingertips can remove what visible scratches might appear. Somehow the small scratches that have appeared all over the iPods just do not appear on the Creative Zen V unit. The glossy, mirror-like finish, on the other hand, can make it slippery.
The Zen V is impossibly small. You really do not know until you actually hold one how small it is. It is smaller than any generation iPod Nano.
Video is a disappointment, but that is expected. The Zen V uses a motion-JPEG-like video format that has a low frame rate and resolution. On an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ a movie that is 1 hour long can take 2 hours to convert. 500 megabytes can turn into 1.2 gigabytes. The Zen V does NOT support any of the MPEG4 profiles. It uses what some of the knock-off portable players have named "MP4" which is a sort of motion-JPEG. It is easier for low-power devices to play these "MP4" movies but they take an enormous amount of room. If you want to watch movies you should look at the Creative Zen (not Zen V) or the iPods which support the actual MPEG4 format (they also take hours to convert movies to the iPod but at least they don't double the file's size).
If you are an iPod user you will not like the Zen, so be prepared to pay double or triple this price for the iPod you desire. The Zen V Plus really wants you to use your computer to organize tracks and videos, but unlike the old Zen Micro, the Zen V does have the ability to organize tracks (and delete them) on the device. You can subscribe to non-iTunes-specific Podcasts by using the "Zencast Organizer" feature.
The FM radio is nothing special. It has low sensitivity to weak stations and is monaural. If you like recording programs you will be better off getting a device that is designed for recording FM programs, like an FM Radio USB device or PCI card for your computer. You're just not going to be using the Zen V Plus to listen to FM radio.
For listening to long podcasts and audio books Zen V Plus does not seem to automatically remember where you left off on most tracks. People tell me there is a way to do this but I cannot figure it out on my Zen V and Zen V Plus devices. I always just save a bookmark instead which is, thankfully, intuitive enough to get into the habit.
The Zen V Plus supports Rhapsody To Go, the heir apparent to Yahoo Unlimited To Go, which allows for unlimited music downloads on the device for a monthly subscription fee.
 Do Not Waste Your Money July 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought my Creative Zen V Plus to replace another Zen V that was freezing up and not working. I shouldn't have wasted the money on another Zen product. After using the new V Plus the first time, I started having trouble with it freezing up, too. What a pain! I just want to listen to my music without having to reset and reboot every five to ten minutes. And now that I've waited over 30 days to contact the company about returning the product for a refund, it's too late to do so and I'm stuck with both Zens that constantly freeze up.
Go ahead a spend the money on an IPod Nano. I just purchased one on EBay for much less than I could in the store...and with Free Shipping. I wish I would have bought the IPod to begin with...a much better buy and ITunes is so easy to work with!!!
Horrible mp3 Player July 29, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
DON'T BUY THIS!! Mine froze up after just 2 days. The player didn't respond at all, i couldn't even turn it on. And guess what? You can't contact customer support. You have to send them an e-mail with proof of purchase. Why would you need that for technical difficulties? It's really just a waste. And the sound quality is bad as well.
Stay Away! July 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What junk! The unit froze up a number of times after a few months of use.
I attempted to use the reset (no button just a tiny little hole on the side) one last time and the unit gave up the ghost. I'm never going near any Creative product again.
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