Zune Hd Vs iPod Touch - Which is great Choice?
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The history of Zune versus iPod Prizefights is long and bloody, filled with enough cutting criticism to send devout fans on both sides of the ring into fits. Now iPod and Zune Prizefight than ever more fiercely with Microsoft introduced Zune Hd on September 15. Compared with the iPod Touch, Zune Hd has what characteristics and what distinct advantages, has come to be the most heated consulation at the topic. Zune Hd is a platform without a purpose. It's a particular expedient in a multipurpose world. Zune Hd gamed iPod Touch, with good design, good hardware components, more suitable size and excellent digital content consumption experience. It's a brief summary, let's go on!
Zune Hd's main features:
· large screen size (3.3 inches), lightweight (2.6 ounces), High-resolution (480*272 pixels), beautiful (Platinum, Black, Red, Green, Blue), large capacity (16Gb/32Gb), Multi-Touch;
· Battery life ups to 33 hours for music and 8.5 hours for video;
· Glass-covered full-color Oled display;
· Arm 800 Mhz Cpu
· Hd radio tuner
· Buy, stream, and update your music-and download free games-wirelessly via a wi-fi connection.
· Surf the web anytime, together with tap-to-zoom technology, built-in accelerometer, and touchscreen Qwerty keyboard.
· maintain 720p Hd movies, Tv shows, and videos in high definition on your Hdtv straight through the Zune Hd Av Dock (sold separately).
· Quickplay gives instant access to your stuff with shortcuts to favorites, recently downloaded or played music, videos, and more.
Compared with iPod Touch, although the Zune Hd screen measures a slightly smaller 3.3 inches diagonally, it's uses cutting edge Oled technology, which delivers radiance and incompatibility unlike whatever you can find in a Lcd which iPod Touch applies. And miniature an additional one three hours of music may look, the extra 2.5 hours of video stands out to us as a needful advantage.(iPod Touch ups to 30 hours for music and 6 hours for video).
Besides hardware, what differences in other aspects?
For Hd Radio
Zune marketing continues to highlight the Zune Hd's radio-tuning ability (which they've had since the traditional Zune) as its break-out functionality over the non-radio iPod. The internal tuner has gotten a miniature cooler now with Hd radio and a highlight that lets users "tag" the song playing, so that they can well buy it later, which is neat. Both of them are heavyweight media player for videos, audios and pictures. But they are distinct in many details. Zune Hd supports video formats: Wmv, Hd Wmv, Mpeg-4, H.264, Dvr-Ms and Hd Mpeg-4. Audio formats : Windows Media, Wma, Wma Drm, Wma Pro, Wma Lossless, Aac(no FairPlay) and Mp3. And video output: 720p with elective dock.
iPod Touch supports video formats: H.264, Mpeg-4. Audio formats: Mp3, Aac(including FairPlay), Aac+, Apple Lossless, Wav and Aiff. And video output: 480p or 576p with elective cable. Although both are advanced media player, they couldn't maintain all of video and audio formats . So I go to Nidesoft Inc to get schedule Nidesoft Video Converter, which could change video or audio files in the middle of all popular formats. Fortunately, this video converter not only could maintain Zune Hd and iPod Touch, but also supports all of the popular multimedia devices, such as iPhone, Blackberry, Nokia, Palm, Sansa, Google Phone, iTunes and so on. Personally I agree an Avi file and have tried it. Below is what I do:
Firstly, I download this software form nidesoft website.
Install and Run it.
Step 1: Load files.
Click "add Files" button and import the Avi video from my computer.
Tips: Edit the video with the function button: Crop, Effect, Trim, Options
(1) take off the undesired area or just change part of the video area from my video file in "Crop" function.
(2) agree gray succeed or Negative succeed from special succeed or tune the Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and Volume to get special succeed movie in "Effect".
(3) Click "Trim" button to get my popular segment.
(4) Click the white box besides "Merge into one file" to merge your premium titles into one video.
Step2. agree the out file format
Click the "format" drop-down list to agree the production format. The software provides many profiles to maintain distinct devices and players. I agree Mpeg-4 Movie (*.mp4).If you don't know what formats your expedient supports, you can just agree the format agreeing to the expedient name.
Step3. Click the "Convert" button and start the conversion. Wait a few minutes before the conversion succeeds!
After conversion, you could open the folder and find the production video files there, try to play it on your Pc first, and also you could load the converted file into your player. For iPod, you could use iTunes to sync the files to the device; for Zune, you need to download the Zune software to carry on the media content. Now you could enjoy video with your popular player. In addition, maybe you want to enjoy dvd movie with iPod or Zune and need change dvd to ipod and zune. I also find Nidesoft Dvd Ripper could help you change Dvd to all popular video or audio formats easily!
As for connectivity
The Zune Hd is able to stream music over Wi-Fi, something the iPod Touch cannot do out of the box. But the iPod Touch can stream music over Bluetooth (via A2Dp) to compatible players.
Feature-by-feature, the Zune Hd and iPod Touch are very similar and now the lower price puts benefit over the Zune Hd. But in long time, iPod has been busy the major markets. Can Zune Hd win iPod Touch? We have to wait.
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