Zune

The book I read to research this post was Zune for Dummies by Brian Johnson et al which is an excellent book which I bought from Kindle. I have an iPod & don't own a zune but thought this book would be interesting nonetheless. The zune comes in 3 colours, black, white & brown & contains 30 Gb of memory. It has a kind of translucent coating which makes the colour change slightly in different light conditions. It comes with some mp3's of some music by some indie bands, it has several pop videos including Faster Pussycat Kill by Paul Oakenfold ft Britney Murphy which was quite successful in the British pop charts, also it has a skateboarding video & one on snowboarding which might not be to everyones taste but shows off its capabilities. The zune comes with a driver & software which you can install on a computer & it allows you to use zune marketplace. If you have a cd collection you can rip it onto your zune like with an iPod. You aren't supposed to rip dvds onto your zune as it's illegal but there's some software from xilisoft that does that it's called DVD to Zune Converter. You can rip home movies onto your zune but you might have to convert them to a compatible format such as AVI or MP4. There's a program called Video Inspector that will identify what format a video is in. You can download podcasts from iTunes & play them on your zune but the other stuff is incompatible. You can buy a voucher for use with Zune Marketplace which is also compatible with Xbox Live. You can buy a zune dock which will charge your zune & also lets you play music through it. They do AV cables which let you watch zune videos on your television. Finally the headphones that come with it may be a bit basic & you might want to upgrade to some noise cancelling ones.