A Hands-On Zune Review 279
jayintune writes "2old2play.com got the chance to sit down with Microsoft's new media player, the Zune, to give some comments and insight into the players User Interface, Video Playback, Music Sharing, as well as software and setup." From the article: "I had expected the player to be fairly heavy, but after holding the Zune in my hand it was clear that I was wrong. It is not as light as the latest video iPod, but compared to my fourth-generation iPod, the Zune was lighter. The top of the Zune had a clear glass layer while the exterior had a tactile feel to it, nothing like the hard metal and plastic of the iPod devices. The 'skin' of the Zune was a 'rubberized' material that had a smooth seductive feel to it. I found myself unable to stop stroking the device, so much that the demo assistant asked me to put it down."
Standard Slashdot response (Score:5, Funny)
He's lying! He's a paid Microsoft shill! There's no way that it's as good as he says! It must be rigged! It's probably the new iPod and he thought it was a MS product! He's brainwashed by the DRM! It doesn't run Linux!
Credibility? (Score:5, Funny)
I haven't RTFA, but I'll be damned if I'm going to after that little choice excerpt--this stuff reads like B-rate pr0n narrative!
Re:Standard Slashdot response (Score:5, Funny)
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The guy above me forgot to ask about .ogg support. BURN HIM!
Re:Credibility? (Score:5, Funny)
What the hell, man?!? I mean, I love my portable music as much as the next guy, but i sure as hell am never going to make it THAT physical...
sheesh (Score:5, Funny)
What if (Score:5, Funny)
OEMs... (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, I remember reading somewhere that Microsoft contracted out to the RealDoll company for that part.
Re:NDA? Goose? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:NDA? Goose? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Stroke It (Score:5, Funny)
Too much information.
Re:NDA? Goose? (Score:5, Funny)
They get you drunk, take all your mp3s, and you wake up in an alley the next morning with a scar over where your kidney used to be.
Did I mention your mp3s are gone?
Re:wait (Score:3, Funny)
And I'll bet THOSE won't expire in 3 days...
Re:Stroke It (Score:1, Funny)
Bad Article (Score:5, Funny)
[i]I decided to send them my community member a song. Browsed to my music folder, found to a song and, instead of selecting to play it, I chose to send it.[/i]
That was to a worst two a sentences I ever look, I choose to read.
Re:Standard Slashdot response (Score:4, Funny)
I think so. Someone put an iPod inside a condom and completely fooled the reviewer, who could not help stroking it.
Re:That annoying guy in the subway (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Stroke It (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Standard Slashdot response (Score:5, Funny)
'iPod', huh? Is that what you kids are calling it these days?
Re:Credibility? (Score:3, Funny)
You seem to imply that there is such thing as an A-rate pr0n narrative.
-matthew
Re:Standard Slashdot response (Score:5, Funny)
Give it a few days
Re:Bad Article (Score:3, Funny)
DISCLAIMER: I have NOT read TFA (Score:3, Funny)
Welll, not necessarily YOU, the reader, but a generalized statement that one could, if one were so inclined, find such lurid tales in the pages of magazines such as Hustler. But one is not necessarily you. Although, you may be one and not even know it.
But that's besides the point. The quote in the summary sounds like the beginning of those first-person porn stories you find in Hustler.
Yeah, yeah... (Score:5, Funny)
I had expected the player to be fairly heavy, but after holding the Zune in my hand it was clear that I was wrong.
I could sense it somehow, as if the pully-downey force that makes things fall and me very tired was not affecting the Zune as not much as I expected it not too.
It is not as light as the latest video iPod, but compared to my fourth-generation iPod, the Zune was lighter.
Ah ha, thought I. As I go back generations of media player, things get heavier. It was also a tad lighter than a 1952 Bendix steam powered black and white television console, thus adding weight (pun intended!!) to my theory. I plan to compare the Zune to a four ton heiroglyphic slab in Luxor, Egypt when I get the chance.
The top of the Zune had a clear glass layer while the exterior had a tactile feel to it,
Tactile. Definition: Perceptible to the sense of touch; tangible. So, yes, the Zune did in fact exist as far as my sensory apparatty and perceptualtudeness could determine.
The 'skin' of the Zune was a 'rubberized' material that had a smooth seductive feel to it. I found myself unable to stop stroking the device, so much that the demo assistant asked me to put it down."
He then called the police who took me downtown to a jail cell, and that's where I'm writing thie review now.
Re:NDA? Goose? (Score:5, Funny)
And the other 1/3rd are the drummers?
Re:NDA? Goose? (Score:5, Funny)
Still have my kidney though.
Ewww!! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Girls Girls Girls, not on Zune. (Score:1, Funny)
A mode of operation that is only possible, of course, with a genuine iPod.
Wireless pr0n (Score:3, Funny)
I found myself unable to stop stroking the device ...
Wireless pr0n on-the-go, huh?
Re:NDA? Goose? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:NDA? Goose? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Standard Slashdot response (Score:3, Funny)
Re:NDA? Goose? (Score:3, Funny)
Because this is Slashdot, and people here only conceptualize meeting a girl in a bar.
Pull out a Zune and ofer to share a tune with a real girl in a real bar, and I'd lay my neck on a block against you getting laid, much less her number or name.
Re:Standard Slashdot response (Score:3, Funny)
You know in Soviet Russia, Microsoft burns YOU!
Oh, wait, that happens in America too if you bought a PlaysForSure compatable audio device.
Re:NDA? Goose? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:That annoying guy in the subway (Score:1, Funny)
Easily done, but try cleaning it off your shoes afterwards.
Re:NDA? Goose? (Score:3, Funny)