Creative Zen players regain FM recording feature

Posted on Tuesday, November 21 2006 @ 11:35 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

Last month Creative issued a new firmware update to remove FM radio recording on its Zen players. Now the company has made a 180 turn on this decision:

The RIAA was of course cited as the main reason behind the move by Creative as the organization has become quite litigation-happy in recent years.

Apparently, Creative has had a change of heart and has released a new firmware update which re-enables FM recording on its Zen Vision: M player. A single line in the readme file of firmware version 1.60.01 reads "Adds FM recording (for players with current firmware version 1.50.02 or 1.51.02)."

More info at DailyTech.

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