My good ol’ trusty Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen recently died on me. It served me for 3 1/2 years, so its time had come, but I was sad to see it go. Unfortunately the battery could only be counted on for about two hours and the headphone jack had been screwed with so much (ever catch your headphones on a doorknob? Or ever drop your MP3 player only to have it hang from your ears? You get the picture.) that only the right side of any pair of phones worked. Sad, so sad.

Anyway, I’m in the market for a new MP3 player. I’m pretty sure I want another Creative (screw the iPod), which plays many music and video formats (including avi/divx), and the Zen Vision:M is looking enticing:

But so is the Zen Vision W:

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Really, I want the M more. It’s smaller and cheaper and has consistently gotten great reviews on Amazon and CNet. The problem is that it’s only 30GB (only — I know — but have I mentioned that I have 110GB of music and 16GB of video on my server?)

The latter is more geared toward movies (widescreen format!) and it’s 60GB. But it’s also substantially bigger — larger to the point that it might be cumbersome to carry around.

Word on the street is that there’s a 60GB model of the M coming out. Should I wait (for who knows how long) and pay a little more for exactly what I want? Or get the 30GB now, save my money, and upgrade at a later date? Or get the 60GB big movie player now?