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Zune 3.0 Report

Check out my friend Jason Dunn's report about Zune 3.0 at zunethoughts.com . It appears that Zune now has MVPs and Jason is one of them. Great report and photos, Jason!

Zune 8 Review: Zune Owners Can't Leave the US

This review has now been relocated to Consumer Electronics Views .
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Zune Device Sync Diagnostic Tool

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Microsoft has just released this tool that helps to diagnose advanced sync errors. Use it only as instructed by Zune technical support. The Zune Device Sync Diagnostic Tool compiles information about your system configuration to help diagnose specific wired and wireless sync connection problems.

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Zune Review: Also for the Older Demographic

This review has been relocated to Zune 30 review.
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Zune TV Watcher

SM Woodward has released what seems to be a great program for watching TV shows that are on your Vista Media Center's Recorded TV folder. These are copied to the Zune after conversion to WMV format. It is a free download from the forum post that announces it. Check it out at http://www.zunetvwatcher.com/forums/.

ZuneTVWatcher

Impart Media Micro Kiosk at Lunch at Piero's

Pat Meier-Johnson always puts on a great mini product show at Piero's restaurant near the Las Vegas Convention Center at the same time as CES (Comdex in the past). VIA (motherboard maker) is a regular exhibitor and one of their products is used in the Impart Media IQ-mini-Z micro kiosk seen in this image.

Impart Media IQ-mini-Z micro kiosk

Impart Media is Microsoft's official in-store interactive marketing partner and the IQ-mini-Z merchandising system uses an LCD touch screen that is driven by Microsoft Windows XP Embedded platform. These displays will be used for both Zune and Vista in-store sales.

More information about the VIA EPIA mainboards is on their site: www.viapc-1.com. EPIAcenter also has some nice pictures of similar motherboards used in the kiosk.

Zune Accessories at CES 2007

I was privileged to attend the CES show for a couple of days. The Microsoft Zune stand featured many third-party Zune accessories as pictured below. They included brands such as Dual, Altec Lansing, Memorex, VAF, iHome, Monster, JBL, Valor IME, etc. (Click the images to see a larger copy)