Pepcom Show Touts 720p Zune, New NVIDIA Toys, And Phones Galore 66
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MojoKid writes "Recently, at the Pepcom Digital Experience show in New York, NVIDIA demonstrated the capabilities of the upcoming Lenovo S12 netbook, which features a single-core Atom CPU and an NVIDIA ION graphics processor. However, probably more interesting to some, NVIDIA was also showing off its new Tegra system-on-a-chip CPU, which will be powering the recently-announced Zune HD portable media player. The device was being demonstrated in a netbook form-factor and was streaming full quality 720p HD video over HDMI. On the networking front, Belkin was displaying its Gigabit Powerline HD Starter Kit — a speedy alternative to wireless networking."
IMG SGX Chips (Score:1, Interesting)
SGX chips (see OMAP3430) have been doing this at a fraction of the power for quite a while now....
Re:Zune! (Score:1, Interesting)
Devil's advocate:
If you don't want DRM tracks, you don't need to buy them from the Zune Marketplace.
For non-DRM tracks, be it MP3s, WMAs, or iTunes Plus tracks that are not FairPlay protected, the Zune can play them, as well as allow for copying from the Zune to a PC (which iPods don't do by default in iTunes.) The Zune by itself does not add any restrictions of copy protections, unless one is mentioning the "squirting" feature of sharing tracks between Zunes via wireless.
All and all, the Zune is a quality MP3 player. Its one of the few that offers models with more than 100GB of capacity, and its sound quality is quite decent.
Microsoft has also done a great job supporting the Zune, with multiple flash upgrades for the older models to support new features, including better wireless syncing.
Of course, there are other decent MP3 players, but the Zune is as good as anything out on the market and definitely worth a look.