I've had my Creative Vision:M 60G for about three years now. It's been a fantastic media player and played pretty much everything except for mp4 files. I used it mainly coupled with the Creative dock, which was the only available dock for this player, and original leather case that is very protective actually. Despite all the protection, the harddisk of my player has just gone bust! I never dropped it or anything like that; it's been protected as much as possible! I was delighted with it until now, as I had many videos on it that I can watch on my TV (via the AV lead) in very high quality. I'm really gutted that it just stopped working! I emailed Creative customer support, but none of their recommendations worked so far. I suspect I'll need a new harddisk fitted and who knows how much that's gonna cost!

My wife has an iPod Nano that she abuses incredibly, and yet it just keeps on working! I kept mine in pristine condition and it broke down.

Overall a great media player...… more »

I've had my Creative Vision:M 60G for about three years now. It's been a fantastic media player and played pretty much everything except for mp4 files. I used it mainly coupled with the Creative dock, which was the only available dock for this player, and original leather case that is very protective actually. Despite all the protection, the harddisk of my player has just gone bust! I never dropped it or anything like that; it's been protected as much as possible! I was delighted with it until now, as I had many videos on it that I can watch on my TV (via the AV lead) in very high quality. I'm really gutted that it just stopped working! I emailed Creative customer support, but none of their recommendations worked so far. I suspect I'll need a new harddisk fitted and who knows how much that's gonna cost!

My wife has an iPod Nano that she abuses incredibly, and yet it just keeps on working! I kept mine in pristine condition and it broke down.

Overall a great media player... Plays most videos, drag and drop file transfer, FM radio, voice recorder etc, none of which are available on iPod! However the reliablity could be a problem and you may lose everything on it when you least expect! Such a shame...

I felt i needed to add a review after reading some really negative ones. I have been using creative players, zen first then vison M and now a stone for a while now. The creative zen is awesome - i've had mine well over two years and to be honest don't know how it still works, it has been abused - dropped (actually some chunks missing!) soaked, nothing short of emersed in water, been through a couple of marathons (which i believe creative don't recommend!) downhill biking/crashing and still it works. Crashes occasionally, just need to reset, choose whether to use mediasource or WMP. For me the video playback sold it - AVI, mpeg, divx (think)plays virtually all things and get the tv out cable and you're laughing (ipod doesn't come close). Only downside is that software can be little buggy and never got the converter to work (only ever had a couple of videos which wouldn't work though)
Bottom line - tough, reliable, great video playback options, good sound, built in radio(?)… more »

I felt i needed to add a review after reading some really negative ones. I have been using creative players, zen first then vison M and now a stone for a while now. The creative zen is awesome - i've had mine well over two years and to be honest don't know how it still works, it has been abused - dropped (actually some chunks missing!) soaked, nothing short of emersed in water, been through a couple of marathons (which i believe creative don't recommend!) downhill biking/crashing and still it works. Crashes occasionally, just need to reset, choose whether to use mediasource or WMP. For me the video playback sold it - AVI, mpeg, divx (think)plays virtually all things and get the tv out cable and you're laughing (ipod doesn't come close). Only downside is that software can be little buggy and never got the converter to work (only ever had a couple of videos which wouldn't work though)
Bottom line - tough, reliable, great video playback options, good sound, built in radio(?) reliabilty, as with all the creative devices i've owned. To the other poor reviews, if mine broke today i'd happily pay less than £100 for a new one - if you're worried about it breaking after warranty get insurance if not lump it, that's the risk you take. At this price its a steal.