I just ordered one - a Creative Zen Vision:M - Black (30gb) - £197.56 (with next day delivery).
I'm quite excited - they sort of look like the 30GB IPod, but they have better picture quality equating to better video playback and also the battery life for video playback is 4 hours - double that of an IPod.
This little chap sort of matches my new Samsung HDTV - both are glossy black.
Anyway, anyone got one? How pleased where you with it? Is battery life good, etc.
I think it is kind of cute-looking.
No, but I have bought 4 products from Creative. Their quality is superb.
I know someone who has one, and I agree that it is superb.
One very noticeably convenient feature after buying it is that it reads just about any format my PC reads, including MPeg, DivX, Avi, and all those music formats.
This means that not only do you not have to mess around with converters (as with various other MP3 players), but you also are then free to use any file management program you choose to deal with putting music on the thing. (Thus prompting the sudden realization that there are, in fact, better things than iTunes that you can now actually use... such as Windows Explorer :P)
I find it a bit irritating how Creative persists with the touch strip, though. There are better innovations than this, and this one has been milked to death.
It works a bit better now, but there are far better input devices than that.
For example, a full-on touch screen, or (since that could get a bit fiddly) a big touch box allowing full movement in any direction including around in circles (but Apple probably couldn't touch them with something like that, since it's not shaped like a doughnut), or a more simple interface such as that used in a video viewing device Microsoft was showing off at CES which was controlled entirely by a D-pad. It looked very friendly to use as a result.
Edit:
And agreed with Boomboom here; My DS with Moonshell has proven its worth as a good quality multi-media viewer, calculator (yay! Mathomatic in DSLinux), audio recorder, and thing that freely runs lots of good programs. Moonshell also gives me the option of a touhscreen interface or a very simple button interface :)
I think I would prefer a GP2X rather than this. With a 2GB memory card for it, it comes to about the same price, but of course you can do so much more with it.