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JB07
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Hello everyone.
I am planning on buying a new MP3/video player with the next month or two. I been looking at the Zune, Ipod, and Zen vision: M. What do you guys think about these players or is there another i dont know about it. Iam looking into the 30 gig's, but if i can find a good just a MP3 player for cheap i'll grab that instead. (i live in canada too and the zune is not out here yet for what ever reason, wondering if its worth the wait or not.)
Thanks for any tip's, suggestions, and help.
I am planning on buying a new MP3/video player with the next month or two. I been looking at the Zune, Ipod, and Zen vision: M. What do you guys think about these players or is there another i dont know about it. Iam looking into the 30 gig's, but if i can find a good just a MP3 player for cheap i'll grab that instead. (i live in canada too and the zune is not out here yet for what ever reason, wondering if its worth the wait or not.)
Thanks for any tip's, suggestions, and help.
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I couldn't resist. My 20 gig iPod has never done me wrong. Still going strong after three years.
I like the Zune, as much as I've messed with it. My iPod broke after 5 months, and I was denied warranty coverage. I know, "anecdotal evidence" and all that, but it did piss me off enough to make sure I let people know who were in the market.
My fiancee just bought a Sandisk Sansa for around $40 a few days ago, and she loves it...
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Cool, no idea when the Zune is coming to Canada by chance? I was upset i couldnt get the Halo zune but i got over that fast hehe.
Great sig by the way, made me laugh. :^:
eBay has no street dates.
That said, why couldn't you just order from somewhere that ships internationally, like pcconnection.com? Waiting for a release date... psh.
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Never did hear much about them.
Edit: Because I was derailing a bit--what I meant to let you know was that the Zen Vision M will play a much broader variety of audio and video formats. If that's important to you, I'd be leaning in the Zen direction.
If you live in the Greater Toronto Area, check here: http://www.factorydirect.ca/static/index.htm If not, you can still mail order cheap awesome shit from there. Grab a 40GB Toshiba Gigabeat for like $130 or so.
www.tigerdirect.ca, www.directcanada.ca, and www.shopbot.ca are also your good friends.
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problem with this is battery life.
For me, if my MP3 player runs out of power - "Never mind, I will just have to deal with silence for a while."
if my phone runs out of power - "Oh shits! no one can contact me, and plans I have arranged might not work anymore."
Except for the obvious Zune Pass store content... subscription for the fuckin' win
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iRiver is a Korean company that makes some pretty damned awesome mp3 players, but for some reason they're actually kind of expensive when they bring them over to the west. Technologically they've been leaps ahead of the iPod for years now, just a little hard to come by.
A friend of mine had one that played videos years ago (like right at the iPod launch). It seemed pretty slick.
The Red Zune just came out, and it looks so damned hot.
My boss has a Zen Vision M and he swears by it. One of the best features (for him) is that it supports MPEG2 natively ... so he dumps video straight from his Replay TV to the Vision M ... like Tivo on the go. The screen is drop-dead-gorgeous also.
I'm interested in the Sansa because I have so much SD card storage lying around. (And I keep getting mailers from this awesome computer store near me that have free SD card coupons ... so I'd probably redeem a bunch of them.) But I'd love to know how the sound quality is and how well the interface (or lack of interface) works out.
The only problem for me is battery life, but I tend to watch videos because I think I'm cool (lol).
Really, though, it's very neat, and I prefer the analog interface to the clickwheel on the iPods.
Very, very cool device, a must buy if not an Apple fan.
At most it will last3-4 hours, as opposed to music 8-10 hours.
But that's my own fault.
Specific questions then ...
1) how is the sound quality?
2) can you skip around in a file easily? (I'm looking to listen to hour-long podcasts, so seeking around them is important to me.)
Sidetrack: Whatever happened to that news of DRM being removed from online music stores?
Once I got around that it was smooth sailing until I plugged the zune up to my computer. When I unplugged it the little button on one side of the usb plug broke and fell out. The zune's usb dongle has a locking mechanism requiring you to press the two buttons simultaneously to release the plug. This button broke the day I took the Zune out of the box.
The software is sluggish and somewhat clunky. Syncing videos to the zune takes quite a long time. However videos on the zune are sweet. I ripped a bunch of adult swim dvds on there and they look great. Screen size is huge and the button dial is ok. I wish the back and play buttons were a bit bigger. Headphones are really nice. Should you yank out the jack the music pauses, nice touch.
Despite all its, uh design flaws, it is a great little device. 4 aqua teen dvds took up barely 2gb. I skate with it every day and I've had no problems thus far, but it is early in its life.
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Another big plus is the Zune pass. Unlimited music for 14.95 is a great deal to me, even if you're just renting out the music.
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So can anyone recommend wireless headphones? I was looking at the Logitech Freepulse, but i hear the first revision had a very poor headband that broke easy and rendered the set useless. Apparently they've fixed that with the current model, but they are still unadjustable and therefore tend to be very uncomfortable when worn for more than a half an hour?