Video Vault Software for Creative Labs' Zen Vision:M Portable Media Player Debuts at This Year's CES Show

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20060106005324&newsLang=en' target='_blank'>http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20060106005324&newsLang=en</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Video Vault enables its users to convert, manage and transfer DVDs and videos from their PC to the Creative Zen Vision and Zen Vision:M media players. Diversified Multimedia has entered into an agreement with Creative to provide support for all Zen Vision players. Video Vault is already the industry standard for the Sony PSP(TM) and the Apple video iPod for managing video content on those devices..."Video Vault provides added value to the Zen Vision user experience by enabling quick and easy transfer of home movies, DVDs, TV recordings and other video files to the devices, including full support for TiVoToGo," said Lisa O'Malley, senior brand manager for portable media at Creative. "We feel that Video Vault will strike a chord with users and become an important software application for our Zen Vision players." Video Vault users simply connect their Zen Vision player to their PC and Diversified Multimedia software takes care of it from there. It even allows them to delete, move and organize movies from their devices within the Zen Vision interface."</i><br /><br />Having just purchased a Creative Zen Vision:M a couple of weeks ago in Las Vegas (yes, I'll write about it soon), and also having spent a good two weeks fighting with trying to get my video content onto it, this product looks very interesting to me. It supports VOBs and DVR-MS, which are the two sources my content is coming from - DVDs and recorded TV shows. Have any of you used Video Vault software before? Any comments on quality and ease-of-use?

[randalllewis]

I have used Video Vault with my Creative Vision (the original, not the M). I have transferred and attempted to transfer several movies to the Vision. The interface is intuitive, but not the best I've ever used. The product has never crashed on me, but I have had some DVD's that haven't copied. The program gives no explanation for the failure. Also, and this is the BIG one- the transfer is very, very slow. A two hour movie will take two hours to transfer. With some of my failures, the program has announced it couldn't make the transfer when it began, but more than once, the failure wasn't announced until the very end of the process.

In conclusion, Video Vault works and is moderately easy to use. It is certainly not refined and it is very, very slow.