Zune Deals

[BrewCityUpstart]

Best Buy has the zune for 249 with a free travel kit. Circuit City also has it on sale for 219 this week.

Looks like I hafta go to BB, buy one, and return it to Wal Mart lol

[Peench]

I switched USB ports to no avail - front, back, sideways, etc. I also tried charging it with the standalone charger to see if the battery was simply so dead as to not allow it to even get started charging.

I did that for a while and it was still turning off and on and resetting. So I called my tech support guru Crippler and whined that it was broken! He said, "did you try plugging it back into the USB port again?" So I plugged it back into the same front USB port and it has worked fine every since. to Crippler.

It did take HOURS (literally) to get all my music into the system. Then we had a power outage here at the office and something got jacked up so it had to re-add all my music again. So hours later I had everything all working.

I also grabbed some vidcasts and popped em on there. I ended up watching a few of them during the 17 innning Padre game we took my son to yesterday. Wow, even outside the video looked great. The audio sounds great too.

[MadBryan]

[quote=BrewCityUpstart;56008]Best Buy has the zune for 249 with a free travel kit.quote]

You get the Car Pack, it has the FM transmitter. It retails for $79.99 (I bought one) Thats a great deal. The Travel Pack is something differant that goes for about $50.00 (no fm transmitter)

[BrewCityUpstart]

Oops, thats what I meant. Thanks for clearing that up.

[BrewCityUpstart]

As much as I like it, i feel its missing a few things. Hopefully they will update this thing more. I liked the way my old Gigabeat was set up and I wish it was more like it. That radio car adapter seems to suck-ass. Maybe I can find a better all-around station to tune it in to.


Does it seem like the Zune never turns off? I hold the button and the screen goes dark, but touch any button and it turns on like it was never off. Izzat normal?

I thought this vid was kinda funny, even though I don't think the Zune is too big.

+ YouTube Video

[Peench]

Yeah, its not that big, but it is bigger than my iPod for sure. The screen on the zune is tha bizzomb though.

I have noticed about that crazy not turning off thing. I think it goes into "hibernate" mode when you "turn it off" and then if it isn't turned on again or any buttons pressed for a while (not sure how long) it totally turns off.

[Crippler]

Holding 'pause' will put into hibernate mode. Holding down and back will turn it off. Or is it up? hmm...the opposite of what I had you do Peench to reset it. I just throw it into hibernation and lock it. Then it wont turn on with a button press or removing the ear buds.

[BrewCityUpstart]

Down and the back button to turn it off.

[Peench]

Originally Posted by BrewCityUpstart

Down and the back button to turn it off.

That's good to know. So holding pause simply puts it into hibernation mode. Cool.

[KEEZY]

The Zune is $199 at Circuit City this week. I have a $25 gift card there too. That makes it kind of hard for me to wait around for the Halo 3 Zune, which is going to cost me $75 more.

[MadBryan]

Definately not worth $75. Probably put most of that content on youself. While the box it comes in is cool the design on the Zune.....not so much.

[KEEZY]

Yeah, typical Keezy... I just pulled the trigger. I'm going to set it up now.

[Lord Geoff]

Good to know about the "down and back." Apparently, I have just been putting it into standby also. I like that the Zune pauses when your headphones get unplugged. It isn't much, but it is kind of a cool thing for them to think to add. I am still wanting a separate area for "spoken" audio files like podcasts and audio books so that they don't get included in the shuffle all.

[Serren]

If anyone needs help with Zune video, let me know. All I use mine for is video, and it works great.

[MadBryan]

Originally Posted by Serren

If anyone needs help with Zune video, let me know.

Do you know any tips on converting and syncing faster cause mine is stupid slow.

[Lord Geoff]

Wondershare makes good conversion software. You can buy the video converter and the DVD converter separately or as a bundle to save money.