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Zune or Ipod....

Postby LostCause » Sat Dec 01, 2007 2:17 pm

My Old Nano Ipod officially shit the bed and plus I want a bigger Hard-Drive.....any experiences with the zune is more then welcome because I am not prone to I Tunes due to its library ...when it comes to my 5,000 some odd songs I like it neat and organized.
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Re: Zune or Ipod....

Postby Tossica » Sat Dec 01, 2007 4:05 pm

My boss has a Zune. Got it off Woot for $89 a couple months back. As far as media players go, it's damn cool for the price. 30GB HD in it I believe.
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Re: Zune or Ipod....

Postby 10sun » Sat Dec 01, 2007 5:10 pm

I purchased a Zune 2 weeks ago.

I have charged it twice.
I use it every day for approximately 2 hours on my way to and from classes & while out and about. Battery life kicks ass.

I have only watched parts of movies on it because I really don't have the time nor the inclination to watch a movie on my portable media player when I have a nice LCD setup in my apartment.
What I did watch though was decent enough to see. It displays video at 320x240 with optional horizontal viewing for widescreen formatted shit.
My complaint is that you have to convert any movie you want to watch on it into wmv format & the re-encoding with the Zune software takes forever.

It is larger than an IPod & the interface is different. Personally I prefer the Zune interface because I have broad fingers that don't work well with the IPod's wheel thing.

What else?
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Re: Zune or Ipod....

Postby LostCause » Sat Dec 01, 2007 5:44 pm

Cool thanks guys you had me at battery life....
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Re: Zune or Ipod....

Postby Tikker » Sat Dec 01, 2007 6:11 pm

i hate iPods but it's amazing the volume of accessories for them.....


that being said, the Zune has some neat capabilities, but like traditional MS style, they don't bother to integrate any of the shit in with the rest of their products

have a nice library of music that you've got rated with media player? the ipod will import the ratings, but the zune won't!
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Re: Zune or Ipod....

Postby Jay » Sun Dec 02, 2007 12:54 pm

The Zune itself was awesome. The Zune software for your PC is complete crap. 20x worse than iTunes.
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Re: Zune or Ipod....

Postby Lyion » Sun Dec 02, 2007 3:47 pm

Get a cheaper 3rd party one
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Re: Zune or Ipod....

Postby Tossica » Sun Dec 02, 2007 3:50 pm

Good luck finding a comparable model for cheaper than a Zune.
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Re: Zune or Ipod....

Postby Lyion » Sun Dec 02, 2007 3:53 pm

There are cheaper straight MP3 players on just about every site I visit that sells that stuff.

Most of my friends swear by their Ipods, and none own a Zune, so I don't have any opinion. I have a cheapie 8 Gig Creative I bought last year on Black Friday that works great.
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Re: Zune or Ipod....

Postby Tossica » Mon Dec 03, 2007 8:08 am

4GB Sandisk media player on http://www.woot.com today for $50.
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Re: Zune or Ipod....

Postby Evermore » Mon Dec 03, 2007 8:38 am

i have a zune. I love it. they coming out with a 40g too i think.
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Re: Zune or Ipod....

Postby Ouchyfish » Mon Dec 03, 2007 9:46 am

LostCause wrote:My Old Nano Ipod officially shit the bed


fuckin hilarious hahaha
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Re: Zune or Ipod....

Postby Lyion » Thu Dec 13, 2007 7:45 pm

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technol ... tml?page=3

The Zune is one of the 10 worst gadgets of 2007.. lol
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Re: Zune or Ipod....

Postby brinstar » Sat Dec 15, 2007 2:09 am

only slightly unrelated:

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