Microsoft Zune HD?
Posted in This Just In... on April 12th, 2009 by gkrakowEven discounting the fact that Microsoft’s portable music player – Zune – has never been able to really compete with ant of Apple’s trend-setting line of iPods, the Redmond, Washington giant continues trying to get people interested in buying these devices.
Some blogs are touting a next-generation player about to be unleashed called the Zune HD. No one is sure what makes the new device HD other than the name. I know one thing for sure – if Microsoft follows previous tendencies this new device shouldn’t have HD in its name.
Zunes do not play totally uncompressed files. Yes, 128K, compressed Windows Media files sound better than Apple]s 128K AAC files – and yes, both computer giants offer barely-compressed (but incompatible) “Lossless” formats. But iPods let you store uncompressed AIFF/WAV files. For some reason Microsoft won’t let you use these larger, better sounding, higher definition music files on their devices.
Unless that changes with the new model, Microsoft shouldn’t use HD in its name. It’s totally false advertising.