Creative could pay class-action settlement over exaggerated MP3 capacities
By Joshua Fruhlinger 
posted May 1st 2008 10:29AM
posted May 1st 2008 10:29AM
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I, for one, am quite happy with my Creative Zen Stone, it's nice to have an mp3 player that your not out $200 if you drop.
Poor poor Creative, they never get a break.
you've got to love the non-tech world... binary math is great.... 1024.... you'd think by now the world would just no this difference.... oh well, that all said, I just got a Zen last March.... looking forward to my reward...
Nick, I wish I could love our elementary schools as much as you love the non-tech world. You think by now people would just KNOW how to spell and use the English language. You start learning English when you are five, not binary math.
Creative is right. Let's see...class action, we need to 'reward' the consumers who are affected...I know, let's give them a 'discount' so they can give us more money to get their 'reward'...very Creative!
Is it me, or is that "reflection" in the photo incorrect? The headphones would not reflect like that. Looks like a lazy photoshop job.
The ZEN pictured doesn't even qualify for this lawsuit. Isn't this model flash based?
It really is about time the PMP and Hard drive manufacturers (and all the laptop and desktops as well) stopped lying about hard drive capacity. Just use proper GB and not this rounded to the nearest factor of 10 rubbish.
I bought a 40G Creative Nomad Zen Xtra in 2004. Like its name, it's big and clunky; it's also ugly, and it has a crappy LCD display. And I love it. It cost half of what an iPod (with half the capacity) was going for back then, the battery still works like it did on day one, and I don't have to deal with frickin iTunes DRM nonsense. With 438 entire albums, it's barely over half full.
I'm disappointed in Creative's "competitive" marketing, but I am immensely satisfied with the product. Because I have been around a couple of computers in my lifetime, I also knew that "40GB" meant capacity, not actual usable storage space (and I realized that the OS's simplicity meant a light footprint, which in turn meant more available storage space).
So I won't be participating in this BS lawsuit. Creative deserves better.
And no, you can't have my serial number.
People buy Creative still? You get what you pay for, don't you?
My Zen Vision W is a great video player, espec. after I swapped the 30GB drive out for an 80GB.
The new Zens are a step down from the HDD-based players IMO.
That's right, I did get what I paid for--an awesome PMP in the Zen Vision:M. Not an overpriced item from another manufacturer that limits the formats I can play, makes me a target of thieves that know people will pay a premium for their limited product and doesn't think people would like things like a radio included in a media player. Yup, you sure taught me, Creative, by giving me an excellent product for my money....pure evil!
I'm taking the 20% discount coupon and I'm using it to buy another player from Creative, giving them even more of my money. I'm just crazy enough to do it!
it makes me sad to see companies getting their pants sued off for using SI prefixes properly by describing a base 10 number rather than a base 2 number.
having what Creative charge for players on its own site, 20% off is not really a good deal!
I have 3 Creative players, but no receipts for them. Even if I wanted to get my discount I don't qualify for it,
Oingo Boingo? Holy obscure Forbidden Zone reference, Batman!
http://www.macworld.com/article/51297/2006/06/creative.html
Touche.
Good...but I've already got Sansa Fuze instead of Creative