Creative's MuVo Slim and Samsung's Yepp YP-T5 Form-Factor Chic

Published on June 18, 2004 to Home Theater

Vendors continue to seek creative ways to differentiate their MP3 players, in a commodity market that has attracted many new entrants. Samsung strives for small and skinny with its latest player, the Yepp YP-T5. Creative Labs' MuVo Slim attempts poise and elegance in the incredible shrinking world of the MP3 player. Read more

Creative's TravelSound MP3 Player is Powerful, Original and Uncheap

Published on October 14, 2003 to Home Theater

Creative Labs' mini MP3 player TravelSound offers power, top-rate music algorithms, and originality-but it is not cheap. With two micro drivers and an amplifier for a quality music experience on the go, the $250 price tag breaks-down to almost two dollars per MByte of memory. There are additional features, such as two-way listening, but does it really fit the bill? Read more

Creative I-Trigue 3600: Big Ambitions, Small Design

Published on February 11, 2005 to Digital Entertainment Miscellaneous

PC speaker vendors are also taking a minimal design approach for small-form-factor PCs, flat panel displays and the like. But can a great listening experience be had without the clutter of a large woofer and speakers? Creative takes a stab at this with its I-Trigue 3600. Read more

Creative Labs' Zen Touch: More Than Just Another iPod Clone?

Published on October 7, 2004 to Home Theater

Creative becomes the latest vendor to challenge the iPod's stranglehold in the music player market. With its Zen Touch Jukebox, does Creative convince by leveraging its digital sound expertise and OEM design prowess? Read more

Creative's X-Fi Sounds Fabulous

Published on July 5, 2005 to Digital Entertainment Miscellaneous

Touted by its maker as a revolution, with specifications that are admittedly mouth-watering, does the new X-Fi audio processor from Creative really deserve our attention - and yours? The answers to that question are starting to appear, as we get the opportunity to test pre-release versions and read the technical documents supplied by X-Fi's designers. Read more

The Creative Zen of Digital Media Players

Published on January 12, 2006 to Home Theater

Creative's answer to the video iPod is on shelves, but is it worth the asking price? We take a look to see if it passes muster in a range of areas, from screen quality to battery life. Read more

Does Creative's Zen Rival Apple's iPod Nano?

Published on December 5, 2007 to Audio/Video Players

Creative Technology keeps expanding its range. After the Zen Micro, the Zen Vision M and even the Zen V, it's high time Creative turned its attention to taking some market share away from the mighty mini Nano. Read more

Creative Zen NX: Let There Be Music!

Published on November 22, 2003 to Home Theater

The mobile music player and hard disk market not only demands elbowroom, it also wants a slim waist and good looks. Creative has come up with the Zen NX, which knows the score and is sexy too. Read more

Creative Audigy 2 ZS Notebook: High-end Sound in a CardBus Slot

Published on February 22, 2005 to Notebooks and Laptops

Superior sound is something that laptop users have been screaming out for. But thus far, vendors' attempts to deliver have mostly cost a lot or left much to be desired. For $130, does Creative's Audigy 2 ZS Notebook get the job done? Read more

Less Noise, More Music: Creative Aurvana and HN-700 Headphones

Published on August 3, 2006 to Digital Entertainment Miscellaneous

Budget noise canceling headphones that cut costs rather than corners. The ZEN Aurvanas are small, light and impressive, with excellent noise reduction and sound. The bulkier HN-700s don't perform quite as well, but they do very well for their pocket-change price. Read more

The Creative ProGamer G500 Makes Beautiful Music

Published on November 22, 2005 to Digital Entertainment Miscellaneous

Until now, there has been a gap in Creative's speaker line, between the superb GigaWorks 750 system and the maker's much more consumer-oriented products. With the ProGamer G500, that gap has now been filled, the new system promising power and quality at a price that's still affordable. Have those promises been kept? Is the G500 the best deal currently available for hard-core gamers as well as for music buffs? Read more

Multimedia Speaker Kits From Klipsch and Creative: Can 2.0 Still Cut It?

Published on May 9, 2006 to Digital Entertainment Miscellaneous

For quite a few years now, a combination of several small satellite speakers and a subwoofer has been the standard solution for multimedia audio, and has even made inroads into home listening. The question now is whether you can still get quality sound from just a pair of speakers? Two competing products from Creative and Klipsch say "yes", but are they right? Read more

Creative Zen Vision

Published on August 12, 2005 to Home Theater

Creative's second stab at designing a blockbuster AV player looks and feels good, weighs only 8.4 oz. (238 grams) and offers a high-resolution 640x480 display. But for $400 you also have to take some good with the bad. Read more

Creative Labs MuVo²

Published on February 16, 2004 to Home Theater

So now you get to have it all. With its new Hitachi 4 GB Microdrive, the MuVo² mini-player is a featherweight gem with the punch of an express train. Read more

Creative Labs Audigy 2ZS Video Editor

Published on June 8, 2005 to Digital Entertainment Miscellaneous

The Audigy 2ZS Video Editor packs the best of Creative Labs' sound card and video editing technology in a standalone box. Powered by an LSI Logic DSP, the unit is designed to serve as a complete and affordable system for editing sound and video on a PC. We look at how easy - and difficult - the unit is to use and set up. Read more