Music, culture, and the inside scoop from Cesar Menendez,
a Microsoft employee working on Zune - Microsoft's new music project.

June 14, 2007

Red Zune

As of June 10, the Red Zune is available online at Amazon.com. The Zune retail team tells me that the Red Zune is on order at Target. Depending on delivery times from Target’s distribution center, you should see the Red Zune in Target stores soon, in the coming weeks, as I noted before. It’s cool to see the community get excited for Red!

Edit, Friday 10:07 AM: Added the red background image, by request.

 

 |  Friday, June 15, 2007 12:06 AM  |  17 Comments
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segadc

Cesear I heard there is no Zune logo on the back of the Red and Pink Zunes. I know they are limited editions, but why take away the Zune logo?

Michael

Wow, that's cool. It would have been real cool if it could go with that signature red line, the one where if you buy the red product, a little portion goes to Africa and helps them. But either ways, a red Zune is still cool.

Hey, Cesar. I wrote a big review of the things I love about the Zune, and how it can improve. It's pretty much the same stuff you hear from other commenters, but I put it all in one blog post, and added my own thoughts about it. If you have time, maybe you can read it. I put the URL to the post in my name. If you read it, thanks.

Love your blog by the way.

ray

Hey cesar, just to let you know that my zune is going great and I still love it but I was wondering if you could please pass it on to the tech team to add more video format support for the zune? It sucks having to convert my videos but what would really make the zune awesome would be flv(youtube vids) support like what archos have done with their media players.

Anyway check out my video of the zune UI with that famous video from vimeo on it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kijg_vwYM7M

John in S.Florida

Speaking of ZuneInsider.com blog ...you might want to update the copyright info.

Dan

Hey, Cesar

Anything else happening with the Zune these days other than the new colors?  Is there anything that you could share.

VelkyMX

Tommy Boy said it best “Hey, if you want me to take a dump in a box and mark it guaranteed, I will. I got spare time. But for right now, for your sake, for your daughter's sake, ya might wanna think about buying a quality item from me.” Have some respect for your customers and your brand!

Kerri

I was wondering the same thing as what segadc asked.

I own a Pink and a White Zune and I found it strange that they took the logo off the limited edition ones... I could understand if there was a design on the back but there isn't, so what's up with that?

Jose Melendez

Hey Cesar all this red zune euphoria is great and I love it. How can I get one in Puerto Rico, because amazon does not ship electronic items here and we don't have target stores here either. I would really like to get a red one and pass on my black one to my brother...

dead jim

my girlfriend already received her red zune from amazon.  she's very excited.

Kavik

I got my Red last week!  For those wanting to see the goods, check out Zune Online:

http://www.zune-online.com/news/zune/some-real-photos-of-the-red-zune.html

Ricardo Dawkins

@ Michael ..about your blog

Cons.

1. does the ipod have Wifi,Fm tuner and scratch resistant ds ?

3. Ads are fine and getting better ..MIMS ad!

4. Zune software is fine here and on many places. It's just a reduced WMP11

10. Close the Zune software

13. I hope not.

20. Last thing I know this works if the FM radio supports RDS

21. AM radio is asking for a big antenna.

24. For best AA dont paste it on the Zune software. Edit the tags using MediaMonkey or MP3TAG. if you must use Zune software, use the Edit Track info option

Stephen R Gibson

Hey, thanks for the Red Zune wallpaper man. Appreciate it.

Any chance of you getting this one?:

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/zune.htm

segadc

Check out this sweet setup, Zune included. ;)

http://www.vrx.ca/new_products.php

o_duck1272

Why don't any Target stores have red zunes? It seems like they should have gotten a few by now.

RomeoDude

Is the preloaded content for the Red Zunes the same as the white/black/brown Zunes?  I heard some rumors that the Red Zune would have different content (I think the rumor said sports content).  It was just a rumor, so I doubt it's true.

admin

Romeodude says: "It was just a rumor, so I doubt it's true."

Wow it makes me so happy that you said that. Awesome. *sniff* I told myself I wouldn't *cry*

;)

in all seriousness, you're right. the preloaded content is the same.

Zoocrazy

Hey Cesar, I just got a red zune and love it, but I'm disappointed that it shows up as a white zune in the zune software.  Do you know if a new version will come out soon that will display red zunes as red zunes?

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I'm Cesar Menendez. I left the Xbox marketing world for Microsoft's new foray into music - Zune. Community, cool videos, music, discovering new music - these are things I love. In the past I wrote music reviews for RealNetworks, and before that I volunteered at KCMU (now KEXP). Get in touch w/ me using this email: AskZune (then type the at symbol) microsoft.com (please no solicitors)
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