The Zune will launch on November 14th, 2006 for an estimated retail price of $249.99. Don’t be surprised if the Zune is available for lower than that at various stores around the country.

Zune will initially only be available within the United States this holiday season.

Microsoft Zune Specifications

  • 30GB Hard Drive - capable of storing 7500 songs, 25000 pictures of 100 hours of video
  • 3 inch color LCD video screen which works in either portait or landscape modes
  • Available in three colors -black, brown and white
  • Customizable with favorite pictures
  • Create playlists on the go or watch a slideshow while you’re listening to music
  • Built-in FM tuner with support for RBDS signals
  • Supports unprotected WMA, MP3, AAC music formats
  • Also supports JPEG, WMV, MPEG-4, H.264 file formats
  • Will NOT support DRM protected music purchased via iTunes or PlaysForSure systems

Features:

  • Wireless Zune-to-Zune sharing - share selected full length sample tracks, homemade recordings, playlists or pictures via wireless connectivity.
    • Zune-to-Zune sharing is not available for all songs on the device
    • Recipients cannot resend music that they have received via sharing feature
  • Listen to any song you receive up to three times in three days
  • Watch video in landscape mode
  • Supports Zune Pass which provides subscriptions to the online Zune Marketplace

Zune Software Features:

  • Automatically imports existing music, pictures, and videos from either Apple iTunes or Windows Media Player including playlists and song ratings
  • Automatically checks for updates of software

Zune Preloaded Content:

Audio Tracks

  • Band of Horses, “Wicked Gil” (Sub Pop Records)
  • Bitter:Sweet, “The Mating Game” (Quango Music Group)
  • CSS, “Alala (Microsoft edit)” (Sub Pop Records)
  • Darkel, “At The End of The Sky (edit)” (Astralwerks)
  • Every Move a Picture, “Signs of Life” (V2)
  • Small Sins, “Stay” (Astralwerks)
  • The Adored, “Tell Me Tell Me” (V2)
  • The Rakes, “Open Book” (V2)
  • The Thermals, “A Pillar of Salt” (Sub Pop Records)

Music Video

  • 30 Seconds to Mars, “The Kill” (Virgin Records)
  • BT, “1.618” (DTS Entertainment)
  • Chad VanGaalen, “Red Hot Drops” (Sub Pop Records)
  • Coldcut featuring Roots Manuva, “True Skool” (Ninja Tune)
  • CSS, “Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death From Above” (Sub Pop Records)
  • Fruit Bats, “Live: The Wind That Blew My Heart Away” (Sub Pop Records)
  • Grandaddy, “Elevate Myself” (V2)
  • Hot Chip, “Over and Over” (Astralwerks Records)
  • Kraak & Smaak featuring Dez., “Keep Me Home” (Quango Music Group)
  • Kinski, “Live: The Snowy Parts of Scandinavia” (Sub Pop Records)
  • Paul Oakenfold, “Faster Kill Pussycat (Featuring Brittany Murphy)” (Maverick Records)
  • Serena-Maneesh, “Drain Cosmetics” (Playlouderecordings)

Film Shorts

  • 5 Boro: “A New York Skateboarding Minute” (Skateboarding)
  • Radical Films: “Kranked — Progression” (Mountain Biking)
  • TGRTV The North Face (Skiing/Snowboarding)

Images

  • A variety of images to personalize a Zune device, including 12 classic rock posters from “Art of Modern Rock”












Check out the Zune Fact Sheet

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