sideaway
September 1st, 2009, 12:53 AM
With growing U.S. hype I stumbled across a nVidia's display, a couple of old 'previews' and a few articles about it.
There are reports the new ZuneHD is going to go on sale internationally. And hopefully that means my country.
http://www.zune.net/en-us/mp3players/zunehd/default.htm
To be honest I think it looks damn nice! A revamped intuitive UI. With nVidia's Tegra chip this puppy can play
back full 720p... Not on it's native res OLED screen (yay for efficient video playback!) of 480 x 272 however.
Aaaand you have to buy a few addons to plug it into your HD screen... so in that respect it's not overly useful.
But what it does mean is a very smooth interface, fast webpage rendering (it has wifi) and proper graphical
acceleration (cool addictive games anyone?). The dock also comes with a remote, although probably not overly
useful for your average user, I can think of situations where this might not be pointless, however the dock and
remote come seperately.
Support for 3rd party applications is planned, but apparently won't be released with the launching firmware. I
seriously think this thing has potential... Hopefully the (audio) playback is nice and it supports more than two
friggin audio formats and one video format. Know what would awesome? Non-encrypted firmware.
Maybe I can sell the neglected iPod on my desk and finally retire my 4 year old Toshiba Gigabeat from service.
Maybe.
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2009/08/504x_504x_Platinum_Family.jpg
There are reports the new ZuneHD is going to go on sale internationally. And hopefully that means my country.
http://www.zune.net/en-us/mp3players/zunehd/default.htm
To be honest I think it looks damn nice! A revamped intuitive UI. With nVidia's Tegra chip this puppy can play
back full 720p... Not on it's native res OLED screen (yay for efficient video playback!) of 480 x 272 however.
Aaaand you have to buy a few addons to plug it into your HD screen... so in that respect it's not overly useful.
But what it does mean is a very smooth interface, fast webpage rendering (it has wifi) and proper graphical
acceleration (cool addictive games anyone?). The dock also comes with a remote, although probably not overly
useful for your average user, I can think of situations where this might not be pointless, however the dock and
remote come seperately.
Support for 3rd party applications is planned, but apparently won't be released with the launching firmware. I
seriously think this thing has potential... Hopefully the (audio) playback is nice and it supports more than two
friggin audio formats and one video format. Know what would awesome? Non-encrypted firmware.
Maybe I can sell the neglected iPod on my desk and finally retire my 4 year old Toshiba Gigabeat from service.
Maybe.
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2009/08/504x_504x_Platinum_Family.jpg