Well than that is new info for me, the creative site used to say 3.0 was not advanced hd, and in any case, 4.0 is a very big improvement from 3.0, and many reviews claim 3.0 to be a flop. 4.0 and 5.0 are very similar, 5.0 only adds a few minor things that I do not remember off the top of my head.