Monday, August 21, 2006
60 GB Creative Zen Coming Sept. 24th?
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 07:31 PM
"As I mentioned earlier, what we're doing with the Zen Vision:M at the $299 level and then increasing it when we add 60GBs..."
There's not much to go on here, but I saw a post over at DAP Site and figured it was worth passing along for those of you who were waiting for Creative to release a larger capacity unit. The above quote is apparently from a financial meeting where Creative is answering for their brutal fiscal year where they've bled money. I'll be disappointed if it's just the same Zen, in the same size (or bigger) chassis, with double the storage. 60 GB is "been there, done that" territory for the iPod and other portable media devices. Creative would need to bust into the 80 GB territory, or go 60 GB and shed some thickness, in order for this to make the waves it needs to make. I still enjoy my Zen Vision quite a bit (though I hate how finicky Windows Media Player 10 is with transcoding files), but a 60 GB version wouldn't be enough to make me go out and buy a new one. Besides which, I've got my eye on the Zune (in more ways than one)... ;-)
There's not much to go on here, but I saw a post over at DAP Site and figured it was worth passing along for those of you who were waiting for Creative to release a larger capacity unit. The above quote is apparently from a financial meeting where Creative is answering for their brutal fiscal year where they've bled money. I'll be disappointed if it's just the same Zen, in the same size (or bigger) chassis, with double the storage. 60 GB is "been there, done that" territory for the iPod and other portable media devices. Creative would need to bust into the 80 GB territory, or go 60 GB and shed some thickness, in order for this to make the waves it needs to make. I still enjoy my Zen Vision quite a bit (though I hate how finicky Windows Media Player 10 is with transcoding files), but a 60 GB version wouldn't be enough to make me go out and buy a new one. Besides which, I've got my eye on the Zune (in more ways than one)... ;-)
