ZUNE HD
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- Invalid0
I have nothing to add that hasn't already been said except, none of the icons line up...
Oh, and 'marketplace' doesn't fit on the screen. How the fuck did they miss that one?
Actually I'm not liking the sub headings in the smaller font. Not all of the menu items have them and they're just unnecessary.
- xcarlx0
i think the design of the actual device is much more interesting than the ipod, which is getting boring at this point. you can tell that their design team wanted to make references to high end 70's and 80's stereo equipment, which explains the 2 tone sides, brushed aluminum, long and narrow buttons, etching, exposed polished screws, and hard edges. its like the zune hd would be at home on the set of boogie nights.
- yeah, i find that brushed nickel looking stuff really attractive.baseline_shift
- you would love this site.
http://www.oaktreeen…xcarlx
- CockDiesel0
wheres that open source mutha that's going to destroy them all? I'd love to build my own UI
- zarkonite0
fiesta:
Zune has games, checkout the marketplace... it's the same as the XBOX marketplace.
MS also has more HD movies for sell, they've been making backdoor deals with the studios for a while now since Apple was so hell bent on pissing off their supplier by forcing them to lower their price.
As for the one product comment, the portable entertainment device market is very small and growing very fast. MS is basically looking at that and trying to grab a piece of the pie, not converting ipod users. Think of it this way, Apple is sitting at a little under 4% of the installed base of computers. According to your logic they should just give up? Or are you just being a fanatic??
- fiesta0
"I still don't understand the point of shouting about HD on a screen so small."
Think its marketing mostly, if you have a HD capable telly then you must have a Blu-ray/ps3/appletv/media pc etc to already play HD media on it or then why would you own a HD tv. and HD content playing on the thing itself won't look any better than any other player with a similar sized screen... but it will take up about 10 times the space
"it offers a lot of features the iPod does not"
Radio and playing HD content on a TV? But no games/Pandora/email/instant messaging/maps.
Sorry I'm missing what those lots of extra features must be."People act like there's only room for one product in any market."
Did you sleep through the last 5 years of total iPod dominance?- ms is playing catch up now. their own fault, zune should of come out 5 years ago also.svenreed
- kult0
"Much better than their last attempt, but too little too late?"
What does that even mean? Too late for.. what? It's a slick new device, it offers a lot of features the iPod does not (it takes all of 10 seconds to Google that) and it's good competition to push Apple's products further. People act like there's only room for one product in any market.
- sigg0
screws? no camera? horse shit ui? marketplace doesn't even fit on screen? a radio?... seriously a fucking radio? when am i supposed to listen to the radio, while i'm driving in my car listening to it's radio? will the radio pick up the local radio that i listen to while i'm out of state? one word... pandora. how stupid. the only use i can think of would be for listening to sporting events but even then you can now watch sporting events live on a number of phones.
this is crap.
- well, actually most gyms have the tv sound piped through local FM. I'm just pointing out a use for radio. Also, I like talk radio as well. Not a Zune fan but a Radio fan.CockDiesel
- ShaneHolley0
I still don't understand the point of shouting about HD on a screen so small.
Would I trust Microsoft software to be trouble free, I think not.
Apple still win by miles I'm afraid. Nice try though Microsoft.
- HDMI output. win.zarkonite
- ahh I see. That passed me by. I stand corrected. Still not sold though I'm afraidShaneHolley
- benfal990
HD radio ?
why Apple refuse to put a radio receiver in their stuff?- no one listens to radio anymorefiesta
- p.s Last.fm app, Pandora app, any internet radio appfiesta
- radio sucksArmandoEstrada
- Wrong.MrT
- TheBlueOne0
No camera? Fail.
- fiesta0
Much better than their last attempt, but too little too late? I mean what does it offer that the iPod touch doesn't?
- Quality Microsoft software under the hood?TheBlueOne
- Probably something stupid like decent sound quality.moth
- and access to the "Marketplac"?fiesta
- HD content...the one thing that disappointed me about the new iphone. Not that there would be enough space to store itrusty_ace
- moth is the biggest PC fanboy I have ever seen on the netfiesta
- kult0
Ignoring the childlike MS-haters..
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,…
This device looks fucking killer. I loved my original Zune more than my iPod, and this thing looks like it just destroys.
- jesus fuck, the marketplace still doesn't fitt onto the screen.digdre
- benfal990
Bob: ... dude, marketplace is too long... it doesn't fit the screen
Dick: yeah i know... Kevin doesn't how to fix it
Bob: so?
Dick: we will release it that way.
Bob: Best plan yeah.
Dick: Totally
Bob: WoW tiiiiime!!
Dick: Yeeeha!
- eating_tv0
Oh god! OH! GOD! My nutsack just got up and left! COME BACK!
- danah_boyd0
this makes me proud to be a microsoft employee!
- deathboy0
i dont mind the looks. seems to offer what apple does+ . decently priced. wish i could find out more on the video formats that it supports, and the video out dock that u have to buy is pretty annoying. sound quality? of course for the price id get a cowon s9. there may not be a wireless web browser setup. but that is pretty unnecesary to me. but this gadget is cool
- moth0
If they really wanted to challenge the ipod they should have open sourced the lot.
- andreasm0
I agree on the interface, but I actually think the product looks nice. It's a product doomed to fail because of MS context. Really lacks some groundbreaking ideas in the UI though, WTF is it so difficult for them to come up with something decent?