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Episode: 42
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Title: HPR0042: Zune Review
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0042/hpr0042.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-07 10:39:55
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Welcome to another episode of HBR. I'm your host Enigma and today I will be
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talking about a new little toy I got. It's a Zoom 30-Yig MP3 player, video MP3
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player. I wanted to talk about the pros and cons of this versus the iPod and
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before everybody yells at me for being a sellout and getting a Microsoft
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product. The only reason that I purchased this was I got a good deal because I
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recently bought a new laptop and I got a deal at Circus City with the
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Zoom and the laptop. I think I got those soon for 80 bucks and it was like
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price point was like 140. So I'll get started with the pros. The thing that
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attracted me the most for this MP3 player was the large screen. It's got a
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three-inch screen that's got a beautiful display and that's what first caught
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my eye and the reason that I even asked about it. It also has a very easy
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interface. The sync software is in my opinion a lot less annoying than the
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iPods sync. I've had issues with the iPods sync on a Windows box all the
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time in the past and the Zoom software I haven't had issues since it's a
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Microsoft product I would hope I wouldn't. The price point for the 30-Yig
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video iPod I believe is a little bit steeper than I think. I want to say it's
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around 150 bucks. I got mine for 80 again. The normal price point is 140 so
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they're about the same. The battery life I was actually impressed with I got
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I've never actually clocked it on the video side but I get about 10 to 15
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hours on the audio side and I've never really clocked it from you know
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straight continuous play. It's been interrupted so I'm sure that it's not a
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very good guide for that. Another nice feature is it has a wireless sync which
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I was kind of impressed with. I still need to play around with it a little bit
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but you can if you're within your home network you can specify your SSID and
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your web or WPA key in the sync software and it'll automatically sync to your
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computer that you have the whatever you specify is in its library so if you have
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like a file server you can wirelessly sync to that file server. It's also got
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a build-in FM radio and I found this kind of neat. I don't even know if the
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iPod has this but you know if you want to listen to the radio you can. Another
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feature that I haven't tested yet but I want to play around with is it's
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compatible with the Windows Vista home premium and ultimate support for the
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DVR codec which is their codec for their media center and you can record
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movies or TV shows from your Windows media center with a TV tuner and
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actually play it back on your zoom which I don't know how that actually
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works so I want to play around with it and see see what I can get out of it. The
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cons the software only works in Windows it doesn't have any wine support at
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the moment in Linux and there's plenty of hacks out there for the iPod I
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haven't found a lot for the zoom probably because it's you know Microsoft
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product and it's proprietary and but if anybody knows of any cool hacks with
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the zoom please let me know you can email me at the site or the feedback
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link whatever because I'd really like to play around with this and the other
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con is not enough codec support I'll go through the codex right now it
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obviously supports WMA for video it supports mp3 for audio mp3 playlist
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I'm sorry WMA with Windows Media Audio and WMV for the Windows Media video as I
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said it supports the Windows Media Center DVR which is the dot DVR MS it
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supports zoom playlist obviously it supports mp4 video it supports mp4 it
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supports AC audio created with the ACLC audio codec m4a and m4b I've never
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seen that codex so I don't know much about it but the zoom supports it and
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that's about it so a lot of the codex like your DIVIX codex and that aren't
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supported natively which means you would have to convert them to one of these
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codex and then let the software or the zoom software sink it up it won't see
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anything in your library in the zoom software that isn't in that isn't in
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these codex so you would have to convert it and then stick it in the folder that's
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your zoom library to get it to recognize to even sink to your zoom which I
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think's a little bit of a downfall I think it should have a little bit more
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support but again it's a Microsoft product so what can you expect all in all
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I've been very happy with my zoom I don't do a lot of things with basically the
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only thing I got for this mp3 player for was for audio listen to work and to
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store you know hack TV and hack five and a couple of the podcasts pure
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pronage a couple of podcasts that I or the video casts that I watch a lot so I
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can watch them in the airport or watch them on the plane whatever I wanted to
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it's got a very pretty screen so you can watch it for hours which I did like
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most of the video iPods that I've seen or video mp3 players whatever you want to
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call them have such a small screen that I but I really don't like but this one
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has a nice big screen and I do enjoy it so that's all for today if anybody's
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