Typical price: £300
What is it: Portable hard drive-based media player, with support for video, audio and photo
What we think: The Zen Portable Media Center is a solid media player with a brilliant interface. But it needs to lose some weight
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Creative Zen Portable Media Center compared to other portable video players
 Creative Zen Portable Media Center |
 PQI mPack P600 |
 Archos 504 |
 Archos AV420 |
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| Review date | 5 Dec 05 | 8 Feb 06 | 1 Dec 06 | 14 May 05 |
| Editor's rating |
7.7
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8.8
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8.3
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8.3
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| Price range | £300 |
£20.96 - £20.96
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| Review summary | Eight months after its announcement, the Creative Zen PMC is finally here. Despite its bulk, the player is solid, but it's the Microsoft Portable Media Center software that deserves most of the praise Read full review |
It's taken a relative newcomer to show the old timers how to do things right. PQI hasn't been in the mainstream long, but its P600 blows away the competiton like a nuclear bomb. Feature-wise, there's nothing more to ask for here. A few tweaks to the user-interface and PQI could just push this product from merely impressive to spectacular Read full review |
Measurable bulk and pricey 160GB version aside, the do-it-all Archos 504 is an awesome AV performer Read full review |
It's not perfect, but the AV420 is by far the best portable video player we've seen Read full review |
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| Full specification | Full specification | Full specification | Full specification |
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