Any News on Zune w Bigger HDD?

[qtipextra 5,000+ posts]

why the hell buy a zune or ipod. theres many of other choices that dont make you pay for the music and you can do everything a zune can do

Instead of making a useless post bashing them, why don't you actually suggest some of these other players for us people who are just learing about MP3 players?

 

[jer_stud56 10+ year member]

Personally...I've had 3 iPods - a 3rd gen, a 4th gen, and a 5 gen 30 GB. (my sisters)

the 3rd and 4th gens have both shit on me, the 3rd gen needs a new hard drive and I've had to fix the 4th gen several times - but it still works.

I was looking at getting a 80 GB Zune because all of my music is not "plays-for-sure" it's just MP3s. And you do not need to pay to put music on the iPod or Zune, just for a confirmation. Thanks for the site on the Zune - maybe I'll buy one and mod it with a 100GB or something - cause I have a crap load of Adult Swim shows (all of futurama, family guy, s01 of ATHF, s01 of robot chicken, s01 & 02 of drawn together, the office s01 & 02, and about 20 gigs of movies, plus about 45 gigs of music.

 

[Steven206Seattl 10+ year member]

Zunes gonna have a bigger hard drive in the next gen for sure. I'm gettin a zune now and the next gens. I'vs had all the ipods but the shuffle and they all have problems. I'm done with ipods.

 

[qtipextra 5,000+ posts]

The only thing I don't like about Zunes or iPods is that they don't play AVI video formats. Thats what I rip my DVD's to, using AutoGK, and it's really good quality, no compression loss. As of right now, neither of those play it. The Creative Labs Zen Vision Widescreen does though. But those are more expensive, and IMO I like the looks and features of the Zune the best so far, (aside from lack of supported AVI files). However, with updatable firmware, somebody could write a patch to read the AVI format.

I hope Pioneer will come out with an intergrated Zune input which (like they have for the iPod now) will control the Zune. When this happens, I will be buying my first MP3 player, a Zune.

My only hope is that a Zune Adapter from Pioneer will directly read the digital files and use the Pioneer HU's MP3 reader and D/A converter. That way, quality will be at best! This perhaps is too much to ask though.

I, like a lot of people, am looking for a solution to have a way to listen to all of my songs without switching CD's, sources, etc, but without loss of quality, in the car.

 

[jer_stud56 10+ year member]

right now I use the front input of my pioneer 680mp with my iPod. It seems to work perfect that way. I do wish I could put on AVIs too though cause most of my stuff is that way. (like you said, no loss)

 

[yacob.naif 10+ year member]

mp3's players all have their problems

and battery and hard drive problems with devices that small are just a fact of life.

think of how often laptop batteries and hard drives stop working, and they're 10x bigger than an mp3 player.

tiny parts = less resistance to wear