Zune HD

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Does anyone have any information on weather this is coming to the UK?. I believe it is getting released in the US on the 15th of September.

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Well the difference between whether it will be realesed in mainstream sotres on the hight street, or if you will be able to buy it from an online shop like i did with my original zune 30gb. Iirc you can pre order the Zune HD from an online importer shop and tbh they do a good job just took a while in P&P but at the end of the day it does come and at a good price :)

Pat
 
If you do order from overseas, beware of the import duty, which is about 18% mate.

It looks like it'll only play HD through an HD ready tv, the screen on the player is the same as my Sony X1060, OLED.
 
There is a single reseller in the UK who do all the import work for you and are brill people to deal with, they honour the year warrenty as well. I don't think I'm allowed to mention them as they would be a competitor.

I got my Zune 120 from them just after release and paid £200, which really wasn't bad at the time.
 
The Zune HD from the site i use is £209 for the 16gb model and £249 for the 32gb model, they say they will be shipped in the first week of october as long as the release date stays the same in america :)
 
Big Kev said:
If you do order from overseas, beware of the import duty, which is about 18% mate.

It looks like it'll only play HD through an HD ready tv, the screen on the player is the same as my Sony X1060, OLED.
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Can you comment on the screen I know OLED is the next big thing and from the vid's I have seen it looks very impressive, what's your opinion 'Big Kev' ? are they really as nice as the demonstrations show them.

I see well if it comes to it I guess I don't mind importing one, shame you can't mention the store because of the rules :( but I'm sure 'Google' will help me out!

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XD-3

EDIT: I'm sure I read it was getting an international release but the more I look the more it seems unlikely :|
 
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Looks like I have found the site! :D.. Wow just watched another great video of the device it looks so clean I would say a step ahead of the iTouch UI and I love apple stuff.

Will defiantly be getting this as my new mp3 player.

XD-3
 
XD-3 said:
Can you comment on the screen I know OLED is the next big thing and from the vid's I have seen it looks very impressive, what's your opinion 'Big Kev' ? are they really as nice as the demonstrations show them.
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I really like the OLED screen and it is the best I've seen, vivid colours and a nice sharp picture, well worth it mate.:)
 
OLED in general is amazing. I have one on my iRiver Clix 2 and it's amazing. I don't have any reading lights, they all keep breaking, so i use this. Seriously, even on it's dimmest setting it's more than enough to read by.
 
Agreed on the OLED stuffs. I too have a Clix2 and the screen is a knockout, even though it is so small.
 
Just curious why OcUK doesn't sell the Zune?

I sat on my Sansa Fuze :mad: the other week and will be needing a new mp3 player...this Zune HD looks truly awesome, might have to save up for one.
 
Just saw this:

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1533591/zune-hd-arrive-europe

MICROSOFT HAS HINTED that its Zune HD will be appearing in Europe fairly soon.
Unlike the Vole's music Zune, which has been about as popular as Steve Ballmer in a Trappist monastery, reviews for the Zune HD have been rather good.
Microsoft has been setting up a video service, which means it will be possible to rent or buy HD video content for the new player.
Initially it looked like the hardware would not appear in Europe, probably because the Vole could not do a deal with that many telcos or music studios. But it looks like it has managed to do something because at the bottom of the press release it mentions that the service will be rolled out to 17 international markets by the end of Autumn.
The markets are Canada, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Obviously the service would be useless if the Zune HD is not also shipped with it and so we should expect the machines to arrive on our shores and get inspected by Her Majesty's Customs and Excise before then.
The Zune HD is a natty machine. It uses an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) multitouch screen, an Nvidia Tegra HD processor, and has HD radio capabilities with software advancements such as the new Quickplay menu, a web browser and music and video playback features.
The Quickplay menu is supposed to allow punters to get to their content with only one click. It can store and play back 720p HD video files to an HDTV using the new Zune HD AV dock accessory.
Content can be put onto a large-screen HDTV when you get home. It has a radio which was a piece of cutting edge technology that Apple considered itself godlike for finally putting on Ipods recently, but which other players have had since Marconi ripped off the invention from Tessla.
In the US it is being flogged in a black 16GB version for $220 with a platinum 32GB version also available for $290.
The video service is also going to end up on the Xbox LIVE service which will probably also get a choice to download or instantly stream HD video in full 1080p with 5.1 surround sound. µ
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$290 in the US and it will be about £245 in the UK and we can't even use the HD radio option, so it looks like nothing to make me think about trying it out and selling my X1060 then.
 
These look really nice but I think its just not worth the hassle of getting hold of one without all the features present. Will stick with my lovely walkman also :)
 
From what I've read, the sound on the Zune HD should be the same as the previous Zunes and whilst very good, my Sony is superior, so I'm definitely not trying this out.
 
Big Kev said:
From what I've read, the sound on the Zune HD should be the same as the previous Zunes and whilst very good, my Sony is superior, so I'm definitely not trying this out.
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That may be true but it's features such as WiFi that attract me as I ride the bus for around 2 hours each day to and from Uni, so I can spam OcUK while on the bus :D
 
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