Zune 80 GB Digital Media Player
- IMPORTANT: Allow your Zune to charge for 30 minutes then disconnect and reconnect the cable to turn on the player
- 80 GB digital media player stores up to 20,000 songs, 25,000 pictures or 250 hours of video
- Big, bright, 3.2-inch color LCD; premium Earphones included
- Compatible with Zune Marketplace for media downloads and subscription services
- Automatically imports your existing music, pictures, and videos form iTunes and Windows Media Player in a variety of formats
- Features wireless Zune-to-Zune sharing so you can swap tracks and other media
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.caption { font-family: Verdana, Helvetica neue, Arial, serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; } Music and entertainment, your way. That’s what the Zune 80 GB Digital Media Player is designed to deliver. The Zune easily connects you with your music, videos, and pictures wherever and whenever you want, and unlike the iPod, it even has a built-in FM tuner so you can keep up with local news and sports. Your Zune gives you the po… More >>
Zune 80 GB Digital Media Player
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There was a quote “The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory”. It is very appropriate in the case of Zune. I’ve got the 80G Zune as a present. It worked for less then a week and now the device won’t power up. I have tried just about everything, but nothing works. I have called support – no help there either. It seems to be that the screen gets scratched extremely easily and I have only carried it in my small pocket and nothing is in there to scratch it.
It looks like I can’t even send it back Microsoft to get it fixed (since I didn’t buy Zune – it was a present). From a quick look on the online forums there seems to be quite a few people with these problems.
Rating: 1 / 5
The Zune hardware is pretty good (because it’s made by Toshiba), but the new software they make you put on your PC is an abomination. The new software is actually MUCH worse than the original software that came with the first Zunes. They have dumbed down the new software to the point that it’s VERY crippled! They have removed many good features. The new software was supposed to be an upgrade, but it’s a massive DOWNGRADE. This is so insulting to us customers, to give us something that is much worse than what we had.
The people on the Zune team are really horrible. They are incompetent in everything. They are terrible at creating software. They completely ignore the customers and what we want, even though we have told them many things that we want. The Zune is capable of many more software features, which the Zune team refuses to give us even after an entire year has passed and the competition is now far surpassing them. We the customers get no support from the Zune team. So be warned, if you buy a Zune, you will be abandoned. The Zune team is a joke, except it’s not funny after you spent $250 on their machine. So I recommend do not ever buy a Zune because you’ll get really terrible software and no support. I bought a Zune one year ago and in that time we have gotten nothing. We only got a couple of very minor updates that did not give us any new features whatsoever and made no noticeable difference.
The Zune is very poor in features compared to other premium mp3 players now. It just has basic abilities, and that is really not good enough anymore. The latest mp3 players from Apple, Samsung, and other companies have many more and better features than the Zune now.
I really hate the Zune team because they seem hell bent on denying us new firmware features for our Zunes. We keep pleading and they keep ignoring us. They won’t even give us a measly clock on the Zune. And now they give us this new PC software which is massively worse and massively less functional than the original one. It is crippled. I can’t stand it anymore. I am sorry I bought a Zune. I am sick of being ignored and given very bad service by the Zune team. I have had enough. I want out. I don’t want anything more to do with Zune. I’ll probably buy a Samsung YP-P2 because it has a lot of features I’ve wanted.
It seems like what Microsoft does is give us major products with huge problems and expect us to be the beta testers and suffer through it for a long time, and they generally take far too long to fix the problem, if ever. Here is a clue for Microsoft: you are supposed to thoroughly test your products and work out the bugs before you put them on the market. The customers are not supposed to be your beta testers. From now on I will not be inclined to buy Microsoft products and will look for alternatives.
Also, a suggestion for the Zune team: give people a freaking manual along with their software!!! Stop making people figure out everything on their own, or go searching for a manual online, or learn how to use the software from other people on the internet. Give people the dang manual up front so they can have all the info from the beginning. Don’t make people hunt for information on how to use the software. That is so stupid! It’s like you think it’s cool not to give people manuals for your software. Not only should you give people manuals, but it would also be nice to give people visual tutorials to make things even easier. You know nothing about business or serving customers, obviously! The entire Zune team should be fired and replaced! Get some competent people in there for a change!
Rating: 1 / 5
This item is junk. It’s too small and blurry screen and the thing doesn’t work as a normal storage area. That means that you can’t use it on any computer unless you install the drivers and if you own a Mac or a Linux machine you can’t use it at all. You can’t use it for anything but music either (so no backup for my important documents although the disk (should) be large enough).
Next to that, the music on there is not compatible with any media player unless it’s Windows Media Player (which is an archaic program). The music you buy is also only playable on the Zune and you can’t even transfer it to another computer or home theater system nor burn it to a cd.
The headphones and audio output in general is awful, bass is too weak and when plugged into the stereo system gives an awful tone.
Stay away from it, it’s underpriced because it can’t sell, get an iPod or a Sansa MP3 player that allows it to be recognized as an external disk.
Rating: 1 / 5
This product will not work on Microsoft Media Center 2002, which I got with a new Dell PC just 2 years 4 months ago. Essentially Microsoft has designed a product which will not work with many versions of their own software.
You must have Microsoft Media Center 2005 to use it – which they don’t tell you any place.
Rating: 1 / 5
The Zune is not a bad music player, but for what you’re paying, you’re better off getting an iPod. I don’t want to get into the depth other reviewers have, so I’ll keep it short: Zune Marketplace is awkward and annoying to use, there’s a huge lack of third-party support (accessories, etc.), wifi is too draining on the battery to be practical, navigation pad is far inferior to the click wheel, radio is far inferior to portable radio quality. Plus, games, TV, etc. are not supported by Zune marketplace. The iPod isn’t perfect, but if you’re looking to part with this much money, you’d best choose the iPod. It outclasses the Zune in every category.
Rating: 2 / 5