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Wilfried
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ramakandra
...radical...

PowerTorsk
Go ti imgur.com. Upload the photos. Use the direct link, and put it in with the picture button. Easy-peezy.

Wilfried
yes, I will cannot remember how to put the in again..
me and my super memory

PowerTorsk
btw, I talked to Wilfried on Skype, and he's too much of a noob to upload new pictures

(You gonna let that slide, Wilfried?)

PowerTorsk
Seconded.

00ZEN
Wilfried! Can you repost your pictures in your review thread? They're not showing up!

00ZEN
I love them! I'm not an audiophile, but I can say that they do sound really good to me. Plus, they're really comfy. That said, I got these because they were on sale for a pretty good price. Although I love these, I certainly wouldn't want to pay 100 bucks for them, or for any other headphones at that.

PowerTorsk
Did you like them? I bought mine and immediately sold them. Too much boomy bass and synthetic treble.

00ZEN
Got the Aurvana lives recently...making this the fourth creative product I've bought in a year. I would do a review, but its reputation speaks for itself! I might be buying an external sound card for a relative of mine. That sound card will be from none other than Creative.




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  Creative's Next big thing: The Zii Computing chip


Christmas may have just finished, but we have another treat for you at epiZENter. We, along with the site NothingButCreative have known about this upcoming venture from Creative for a little while now, but we were waiting for a more appropriate time to release the info. But, our patience backfired on us this time as Creative has officially posted the teaser on their own site.

Creative will be unveiling a new processing chip at CES 2009. The chip will be called the "Zii", a name not unlike that of Nintendo's console. The chip might have a simplistic name, but according to their teaser site, it's going to change everything. The Zii will be using "Stemcell computing", whatever that means. That term has been trademarked by Creative just a couple of weeks ago, and it may raise a few eyebrows. We don't know exactly what Creative means by Stemcell computing, but we're definitely curious.


The Creative Zii is a new computing chip designed by Creative that is using a trademarked Stemcell Computing technology. It will be coming in 2009 to many electronics including Creative MP3 players


The chip has been top secret at Creative's headquarters for some time now, and it looks to be one of the biggest projects they've invested in. We can't reveal too much more about the chip right now, and we don't want to spoil it for Creative. Just know this is completely different from their X-Fi audio chip and it will be used in a variety of upcoming products.

Zii.com

This article was written through an agreement with NothingButCreative. We will be working in tandem in releasing this info and perhaps more in the future. Make sure to check out both sites in the future for more information.


comment: 7 | Friday, December 26 (2008) 06:17PM | Posted by: ssjmichael


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Raider Red
Dec 26 (2008) 06:22PM
Interesting... is this product designed against SigmaTel and Texas Instruments' player chips or what? I am oddly intrigued by this.

Varuna
Dec 26 (2008) 06:29PM
That IS very interesting !
truely very interesting..
I'm soo curious on what the Zii can actually do..
what is it ? A CPU chip ? Graphics ? Audio ?


I think Creative's work with 3DLabs might have given them the Zii. They did shocase a VERY capable chip DMS-02. earlier here:
[Linky]
I wonder how different will it be from that or if it's anything similar to the same concept.






00ZEN
Dec 26 (2008) 06:30PM
Hopefully it's vastly superior to SigmaTel chips
It should be
knowing Creative...it WILL be(assuming its a chip of course)

If its a chip...H.264 support is definitely there~
[ edited Dec 26 (2008) 06:31PM ]

ramakandra
Dec 26 (2008) 07:01PM
...rock on...
...creative is busting down walls like nobodies business...

PowerTorsk
Dec 26 (2008) 09:52PM
I doubt Creative would present something grafics-related. But if they did, I would be exited.

Let me explain:

The ZENs grafics are not heavy to run. If you take a closer look, you will see that everything is just pictures (unlike the iTouch). Some are transparent, but none are actually changing at all when browsing menus etc... If Creative put some heavy grafics on their DAP's, they would definetly sell more.

00ZEN
Dec 28 (2008) 08:34AM
Oh Em Gee Gee
I seriously can't wait til CES 2009!

Even tho its like not so far away

Cotton
Dec 28 (2008) 07:15PM
It's probably not going in their own players.

They've obviously made the dms-02 chip commercially viable. They'll sell it to whoever the hell wants it.

If Apple wants to sell streamed HD content (which, make no mistake, is their future business model) they need some way to process it on low end machines. In steps Creative with the dms-02.

Or so Creative hopes.




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