Zune Hd Vs iPod Touch - Which is good Choice?
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The history of Zune versus iPod Prizefights is long and bloody, filled with adequate cutting annotation 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 dissimilar advantages, has come to be the most heated discussion at the topic. Zune Hd is a platform without a purpose. It's a particular device in a multipurpose world. Zune Hd gamed iPod Touch, with better design, better hardware components, more approved size and excellent digital article 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), gorgeous (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 modernize your music-and download free games-wirelessly via a wi-fi connection.
· Surf the web anytime, along with tap-to-zoom technology, built-in accelerometer, and touchscreen Qwerty keyboard.
· reserve 720p Hd movies, Tv shows, and videos in high definition on your Hdtv through the Zune Hd Av Dock (sold separately).
· Quickplay gives instant passage 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 brightness and dissimilarity unlike whatever you can find in a Lcd which iPod Touch applies. And small someone else 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 capability (which they've had since the traditional Zune) as its break-out functionality over the non-radio iPod. The internal tuner has gotten a small cooler now with Hd radio and a highlight that lets users "tag" the song playing, so that they can actually buy it later, which is neat. Both of them are heavyweight media player for videos, audios and pictures. But they are dissimilar 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 optional 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 optional cable. Although both are developed media player, they couldn't reserve all of video and audio formats . So I go to Nidesoft Inc to get schedule Nidesoft Video Converter, which could turn video or audio files in the middle of all favorite formats. Fortunately, this video converter not only could reserve Zune Hd and iPod Touch, but also supports all of the favorite multimedia devices, such as iPhone, Blackberry, Nokia, Palm, Sansa, Google Phone, iTunes and so on. Personally I plump 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 turn part of the video area from my video file in "Crop" function.
(2) plump gray ensue or Negative ensue from special ensue or tune the Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and Volume to get special ensue movie in "Effect".
(3) Click "Trim" button to get my favorite segment.
(4) Click the white box besides "Merge into one file" to merge your superior titles into one video.
Step2. plump the out file format
Click the "format" drop-down list to plump the output format. The software provides many profiles to reserve dissimilar devices and players. I plump Mpeg-4 Movie (*.mp4).If you don't know what formats your device supports, you can just plump the format according to the device name.
Step3. Click the "Convert" button and start the conversion. Wait a few minutes before the conversion succeeds!
After conversion, you could open the portfolio and find the output 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 conduct the media content. Now you could enjoy video with your favorite player. In addition, maybe you want to enjoy dvd movie with iPod or Zune and need turn dvd to ipod and zune. I also find Nidesoft Dvd Ripper could help you turn Dvd to all favorite 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 occupied the major markets. Can Zune Hd win iPod Touch? We have to wait.
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