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mishlert
Joined: 13 Mar 2003
Location: On the 3rd rock from the sun
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 Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 8:29 pm Post subject: Will You Get A Zune? |
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The U.S. release date is November 14 and will go for about $250.00.
I'm sure it will be avaliable in Korea at about the same time, or soon after for a price (my guess) of about KW 300,000
Here are the specs:
WMA, MP3, AAC, JPEG,WMV, MPEG-4, H.264 media playback
Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) connectivity
30 GB Hard Drive
3 inch video LCD 320x240
White, Black, and Brown Colors
FM Radio
TV output connectivity 640x480
Dedicated song download site (Zune Marketplace)
DJ Mode
Podcast playback
Updateable Firmware
Estimated 12 hr battery life for audio, 3.5 hr video
3 day playback of Wi-Fi transfered songs from friends
XBOX streaming
XBOX (Microsoft) points compatability
Preloaded music videos
Over a dozen accessories at launch
5.6 ounces in weight, 4.4 x 2.4 x 0.58 inches size
Metric: 158 g, 112 x 61 x 14.7 mm size
Custom background images
WiFi transfer of photographs
Tag based storage system (Will not appear as drive)
PC Compatability (no Mac client at launch)
Zune tag enabled
Horizontal and vertical video orientation
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DCJames
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:18 am Post subject: |
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| If it's a good product for a decent price, I'd buy it even though evil Micro$oft makes it. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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Many iPod Owners Will Buy Zune
A new survey conducted by ABI Research has shown that many prospective MP3 player buyers—even owners of iPods—would be likely to choose Microsoft's Zune player. 1725 teenage and adult US residents were asked whether they planned to buy an MP3 player in the next 12 months. Of those responding that they were likely to do so, 58% of those identifying themselves as existing iPod owners and 59% of those who owned other brands said they would be "somewhat likely" or "extremely likely" to choose a Microsoft Zune player over an iPod or another brand of MP3 player.
"..iPod users don't display the same passionate loyalty to iPods that Macintosh users have historically shown for their Apple products." |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 12:14 pm Post subject: |
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| I always had decent alternatives to ipod, unlikely that I will get excited over this Microsft trinket. When Sandisk makes a cheaper knock off, that'll be the time to buy. |
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mnhnhyouh
Joined: 21 Nov 2006
Location: The Middle Kingdom
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| Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 12:38 pm Post subject: |
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There are a couple of problems with the Zune for me. It requires software to load your songs on, just like the iPod. I dont want that. It wont act as a portable hard drive either.
I have an iPod but use alternate firmware (free opensource) from rockbox.org that allows me to drag and drop music on and off, customise the interface and tons of other stuff.
This means if I come to your place I can give you all my music, and "borrow" yours.
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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| mnhnhyouh wrote: |
| This means if I come to your place I can give you all my music, and "borrow" yours. |
Every mp player I've had (on my 5th since '9 does this, it's always been a primary requirement for me (along with an easily rechargeable/removable/replaceable battery). A little sorry to hear that Zune won't do this, but not really of any personal consequence for me.
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| I have an iPod but use alternate firmware (free opensource) from rockbox.org that allows me to drag and drop music on and off, customise the interface and tons of other stuff. |
Now that sounds highly interesting! Interesting enough that I may consider buying my wife one of those 2nd ed nanos for xmas. |
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mnhnhyouh
Joined: 21 Nov 2006
Location: The Middle Kingdom
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| Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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Now that sounds highly interesting! Interesting enough that I may consider buying my wife one of those 2nd ed nanos for xmas. |
Not sure it works with the 2nd edition Nanos yet. But with the first edition it adds video playback, though not with sound as yet. It is still a work in progress.
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Still sounds like something to keep watching for.. thanks for the tip! |
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AbbeFaria
Joined: 17 May 2005
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 12:23 am Post subject: |
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I asked this question about 2 months ago and got no replys. I guess I was just a tad too early. I myself won't get one, but no big surprise there. I've been using an iPod now for almost 2 years and it's great. Zune does have a couple of nice features I wouldn't mind seeing on the iPod though. Mainly as was shown in the picture above, the customizable background and such. I'm not really interested in the bigger screen since I don't really use the video play-back to watch much. A video podcast or something is about it. It eats too much juice. It works great and I've no reason to switch to something else. It goes with me everywhere. I'm more likely to forget my wallet then my iPod.
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mnhnhyouh
Joined: 21 Nov 2006
Location: The Middle Kingdom
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superdave
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Location: over there ----->
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| Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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| DCJames wrote: |
| If it's a good product for a decent price, I'd buy it even though evil Micro$oft makes it. |
bagging microsoft is awesome. all the cool kids are doing it. and the $ for the S is fantastic ... so symbolic and 'in your face'. 
seriously, if it's a good product what does it matter who made it? bill gates gives more money to charity than many countries. so that's a good thing.
i admit that some microsoft products are crap. windows is a bloated operating system. but microsoft also makes some good products.
the zune has been released and i'm not impressed with the features they've included. it seems that they've crippled the zune's abilities, rather than making it feature rich.
microsoft are no more evil than sony or apple ...
honestly, the best benefit of the zune is the competition. ipod is a piece of crap (i do own one) but it's a terribly thought out idea. battery life is terrible, uploading via the proprietary connection sucks, few ways to modify it. people are just gaga over the damn thing.
if zune makes the market more competitive and the products better, then that's best for us. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 1:14 am Post subject: |
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| I totally love the fact that the editors, gods they are really, of engadget.com pretty much laid gigantic steaming human turds on both iPod and Zune in their podcast review. Yeah, they did. They said if they had their druthers, they'd buy a .... guess what... this. |
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endofthewor1d
Joined: 01 Apr 2003
Location: the end of the wor1d.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 2:11 am Post subject: |
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| superdave wrote: |
| DCJames wrote: |
| If it's a good product for a decent price, I'd buy it even though evil Micro$oft makes it. |
bagging microsoft is awesome. all the cool kids are doing it. and the $ for the S is fantastic ... so symbolic and 'in your face'.
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i like you're style, dude. |
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