New Music Friday: Twenty-Seventh Edition

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John in S.Florida — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:05:24 GMT

Ricardo, good point and perhaps the 4GB model isn't for you. If you are frugal with your syncing even a 4GB should be able to handle...

1-2 Tv Shows

2-3 Netcasts

2-3 Games

1-2 eBooks

100 Pictures

20 Songs

...a probably with space to spare. To be honest a 4GB model is probably best suited for "casual" users...and its my opinion that Microsoft needs to go after these casual users like Apple and Nintendo have.

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Ricardo Dawkins — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:17:46 GMT

@ john...what about netcasts, games, ebooks, pictures, and whatever content I transfer using WiFi or perhaps UMS support for documments on 4GB....what about that ?

I hope they plan this better than Zune 1.0.

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John in S.Florida — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:13:52 GMT

Ricardo, thats all speculation. But what is wrong those capacities? 4GB is good enough to sync a few TV shows and a couple of your favorite albums. Online, 4GB SD can be had for $35 and 8GB for $80..and those aren't OEM prices. If you figure in display, mainboard/cpu/memory, battery, WIFI, case, software and packaging cose..you can get an idea where that product price point might fall.

Just a wild guess..$169 for 4GB and $219 for 8GB..leaving $249 reserved for 2nd gen HD based player.

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admin — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:57:17 GMT

no worries, mark, no worries. I was just really excited that folks are taking the rumors with a grain of salt :)

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Mark — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:37:16 GMT

Cesar: ya, I know (sheepish grin) I just figured some1 was gonna comment on it, might as well be me. by the way what ricardo is talking about with 4 and 8... http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/19/flash-zune-supposedly-gets-name-capacities/

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Ricardo Dawkins — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:06:54 GMT

flash zune with low 4GB & 8GB max capacities...that is just wrong!

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admin — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:37:13 GMT

Thanks for your comment, John. It's true, some things I'll be first to post, some things I won't be first to post. Take care and have a good night!

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John — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:31:22 GMT

@mark: Heck, we're always the last ones to know anything about Zunes; when or if Microsoft confirms the news, this site will be the last one to publish anything about it (even in comments!), even after Engadget and Amazon

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Woody56292 — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:42:19 GMT

Ricardo:

Then why would it say zune in it?

"Need help with VH1 for Zune?"

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Ricardo Dawkins — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:48:32 GMT

@MARK...LEFTOVERS FROM WMP11..nothing more ..nothing else...

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admin — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:37:13 GMT

Mark - you're right calling that one rumor and speculation - and you know I don't comment on rumor and speculation :)

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Mark — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:06:48 GMT

Cesar:

any news about this:

http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/zune-marketplace-to-get-mtv-vh1-and-cmt-content/

? I would assume rumor and speculation but since it's in the zune software...

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Ron — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:16:18 GMT

segadc - Wow! Auto playlists! What a concept! I guess I knew Zune had auto playlist functionality, but I never experimented with it. I just tried it, and it works great. I like it!

Thanks for the tip!

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John in S.Florida — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:24:33 GMT

James, i feel your pain. As a user community, we are in the dark even on short term (1-2mos) roadmap plans. I don't agree with it but its our reality for now. In the meantime this opens Microsoft/Zune team up to criticisms of their product. However, I do think the people behind Zune understand how vitally important enabling Movies/TV user scenarios is to their success. And I agree with you, to date it has been very Music centric.

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segadc — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:48:12 GMT

Ron you can set an auto playlist . I have mine set to the most recent music added in the last 7 days.