Zune 80 GB Digital Media Player Black (2nd Generation)
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #133 in Consumer Electronics
- Color: Black
- Brand: Zune
- Model: HPA-00001
- Released on: 2007-11-13
- Dimensions: .28 pounds
Features
- 80 GB digital media player stores up to 20,000 songs, 25,000 pictures or 250 hours of video
- Features wireless Zune-to-Zune sharing so you can swap tracks and other media
- Big, bright, 3.2-inch LCD color screen
- Compatible with Zune Marketplace for media downloads and subscription services
- Automatically imports your existing music, pictures, and videos from iTunes and Windows Media Player in a variety of formats
Super slim and ultra-portable, the Zune 80GB Video Player makes it easy to take your music, videos, pictures and podcasts wherever you go. Listen to your favorite radio station with the built-in FM tuner or wirelessly share tracks with your friends to discover new music on-the-go. Browse the Zune Marketplace to choose from millions of songs, albums, DRM-free MP3s (without digital rights management), music videos, podcasts and more. Refresh your Zune with new content anywhere you charge your device. Connect to your PC through your home wireless network by setting your Zune to automatically sync the latest podcasts, music and more from your stereo dock, AC Adapter or speaker dock accessory. Share full-length tracks of your favorite songs, albums, playlists, pictures and even audio podcasts. Listen to the full track of any song you receive up to three times and even pass along songs you receive to other friends who have a Zune. If you like a song you receive, you can easily add it to your wish list and then buy it from your PC the next time you sync. Fly effortlessly through your song, picture and video collections with innovative new touch controls that let you brush or click Zune software will now automatically import broadcast content recorded on Windows Media Center for Windows Vista Home Premium or Ultimate so you can sync it onto your Zune wirelessly Zune software will automatically import your existing music, pictures and videos, including music you have ripped into iTunes and Windows Media Player, even transferring your existing playlists and song ratings in one easy step With the built-in FM tuner you can listen to your favorite local FM radio stations while seeing the name of the song and artist currently playing on select frequencies Plug your Zune into your Xbox 360 and customize the soundtrack in your favorite games.
Customer Reviews
Hackproof + no lossless support = junk
An 80 gig unit without any form of lossless music support, even Microsoft’s own wma lossless?! Give me a break.
Great Buy
I’m really happy with this product, I’ve had it a couple of days and already I love it. The touch pad is very responsive and sensitive. The screen is bright and clear. I’ve had no problems with the software or getting any of my music onto it. I love the fact that the touchpad can also be used as a normal button. It has a very sleek design, nice packaging and the headphones are amazing. Immediately after putting in the headphones, even without music on, outside noise diminishes. I would recommend this product to anyone who has a lot of music or videos and wants a nice looking mp3 player with awesome work-ability.
video quality good; setup/format frustrating w/ glitches
I got this media player primarily because I wanted to play videos. The video quality is great, but there are a number of glitches and formatting stuff that I find frustrating:
1. For mp3s - The songs are not listed all at once, but are organized (whether you want it or not) into random folders. This makes it frustrating to play music. I wish the Zune software would allow it so that we could arrange the songs however we wanted, and not have to deal with pictures of the album covers showing up on screen. Like I said, I bought my Zune mainly for the video capability, so this isn’t as big a deal for me — I already have another mp3 player.
2. The video names sometimes get messed up whenever I connect to the Zune syncing software. For example, I will upload a TV show with the correct name, but the next time I connect to the Zune software, the name will somehow get mixed up and be tagged with the name of another tv show. So I end up having two tv shows with the same name, which gets confusing. And then I have to go back into the software and rename it. This is the most frustrating thing about the Zune, and something that the company REALLY needs to fix whenever they upgrade the software!
Just some other random things…you cannot upload AVI files to the Zune, you have to first convert it to WMV. That’s a bit annoying, because most of my files are AVI. But I hear most video players are like this.
Also, just as a general note — it’s irritating how we cannot directly download video files into the Zune, but have to sync them from different folders. This takes too much space because the video files remain on our computers. And if you delete them from the folder, it goes away on your Zune. Once again, I hear that most video players are like this, though. But I hope that manufacturers develop a way to directly download the video files.
Once again, the video quality is great, but there are a lot of little things that I find frustrating about the Zune. I think a lot of video players supposedly have the same issues, though, so the Zune is still a good buy.