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Toshiba Launches New Gigabeat: Possible Zune ‘Nano’ Prototype?

Remember when we learned that the Zune was a re-skinned Toshiba Gigabeat and when Toshiba filed the FCC docs for Microsoft? Kinda took the wind out of the first-generation Zune sales for a bit there, didn’t it? Now that Toshiba’s just released the P20K and P10K flash-based players (which also look a bit like the…

Tech News Jason Chen

Dealzmodo: $100 off Xbox 360 Core or Premium at MicroCenter

To celebrate the grand opening of gaming departments at MicroCenter stores, they are offering $100 mail-in-rebates on the Xbox 360 Core or Premium systems. This would bring the price of the Core down to $200 and the price of the Premium down to $300. It is likely to be in-store only and the offer begins…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Use The Xbox HD-DVD Drive on Your Windows PC

If you’re cool you’ve already picked up the Xbox 360’s HD-DVD drive to watch all those high quality Hollywood movies in stunning high definition. What’s even better is that, with some potentially illegal software, you can plug the Xbox 360’s HD-DVD drive right into your Windows-based PC and enjoy high def movies on your computer!…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon

Zune Sold Early At Bay Area Best Buy

if you’re near Union City, you may want to stop by their Best Buy today and pick yourself up a Microsoft Zune a few days early. A reader writes: By coincidence i got my hands early on an Microsoft Zune, bought as a regular customer at BestBuy in Union City Landing shopping centre. They dont…

Tech News Jason Chen

PS3’s Charge Cable vs. Xbox 360’s Charge Cable

How long is the PS3’s charge cable compared to the Xbox 360’s? Well, watch the video to find out. Ok, done? As you can see, the PS3’s cable is only five feet long, not nearly far enough for anyone to use while playing. It’s only a “charge” cable—unless you want to sit up close and…

Tech News Jason Chen

Official Zune Premium Headphones and Magnetic Remote

Here’s a closer look at the premium Zune headphones and the magnetic remote that you can throw all up on your refrigerator door, yo. The remote has the same double glow (or whatever the kids are calling it these days) that the Zune itself has. The headphones have to be way better than the shit…

Tech News Brian Lam

VAF Octavio: Kinky Leather Zune Boombox

Jason Chen, Charlie White, and I Just got back from the LA Zune event’s daytime activities, and found this amazing Octavio Boombox that we’d covered a little while ago. The $500 dollar dock is impressive as hell in person, made of the blackest leather they could harvest from biker jackets and baby cows. There’s a…

Tech News Brian Lam

Zune Fact: Music Will Be Redownloadable

We just got back from the LA Zune event, and like the NY Event we covered, we found out some interesting extra details. Unlike iTunes, with its draconian non-redownload policy, Microsoft’s Zune Marketplace will let you re-download purchased songs up to five times (plus even more if you call up tech support). Apple has been…

Tech News Jason Chen

Microsoft Zune: Paying off the Industry One Label at a Time

It appears Microsoft has struck a deal with Universal Music giving them a portion of the sales from every Zune they sell. This undermines the traditional strategy created by Apple where music labels received money from song downloads, and not player sales. Microsoft has also said that similar offers are on the table for other…

Tech News Ben Longo

Zune New York Party Recap

There were as many Zunes as there were martini glasses at Microsoft’s soiree in New York last night and thanks to Gawker’s videographer, Richard Blakeley, we managed to get a good look at the player’s interface and music-beaming capabilities despite the wall-thumping techno/house soundtrack that filled the warehouse throughout the night. Here’s what you missed…

Tech News Louis Ramirez

Fire Up Your BitTorrents: Vista’s Gone Gold

Despite all the talk of missing ship dates and possible delays, the Microsoft Vista team has gotten their OS gold. *clap clap* Good for you guys. Windows chief Jim Allchin posted a cryptic message this morning to his blog that read, “It’s time,” signifying either Windows has gone gold or he was about to be…

Tech News Jason Chen

Zune User Interface: Runs Like Butter

So now that you’ve seen how fast you can beam songs from one Zune player to another, we’re gonna drill through the menu system so you can see just how smooth this baby runs in person. Along with Gawker’s video guru Richard Blakeley, we hit everything from display settings to the Zune’s radio interface. We…

Tech News Louis Ramirez

Zune File Transfer Race

We crashed Microsoft’s New York Zune party last night and got some extra hands-on time with the soon-to-be-released player. We’ve already given you our in depth review, but were curious to see just how long it’d take to send music from one Zune to another. Gawker videographer Richard Blakeley filmed the exchange which took under…

Tech News Louis Ramirez

Xbox NY Party Recap

Microsoft brought its bigs guns to New York last night (including Peter Moore himself) as they taunted a crowd of energetic gamers, overweight journos, and greasy hipsters with visions of sweet HD downloads. The show had a few celebrities in the mix and our agile videographer Richard Blakeley caught some of the night’s prettier faces…

Tech News Louis Ramirez

Xbox 360 Hard Drive Leaked at 70+ Gigs?

Just when we started believing that the 20GB Xbox 360 drives were big enough to satisfy, along comes the best evidence yet of more spacious disk appendages. Microsoft hasn’t officially let the kitty out of the bag, but Plaid Ninja snapped this screenshot at the Xbox Live event tonight. It shows 70 gigs of free…

Tech News Brian Lam

Zune Q&A: Ask

Shyness is nice, and Shyness can stop you From Zuning all the things in life You’d like to So, if there’s something you’d like to try If there’s something you’d like to try Ask me – I won’t say “no” – how could I? We’ve got some more Zune hands-on time coming up this week,…

Tech News Jason Chen

How Does The Xbox 360 HD DVD Work?

Did you know the code for the Xbox 360 HD DVD player is 4.7 million lines? In comparison, Windows XP has 40 million lines of code, and the old Windows NT 3.1 has around 4-5 million lines of code. So yes, the software to play back HD DVD movies has the same amount of code…

Tech News Jason Chen

Sizemodo: Zune vs. iPod

Now that we know what the Zune can do, let’s take a look at how big the Zune actually is compared to the iPod. You may have seen the size comparison before, but not everybody has a latest generation iPod, so here’s how the 30GB Zune stacks up to the 5G, 4G, and 3G 30GB…

Tech News Jason Chen

Zune Arts Zune Animation Home

Much better than a Zune suppository, this repository of Zune animation stems from their comingzune.com teaser site. Apparently after putting up a few videos, Microsoft had so many artists wanting to put their own Zune content online that MS just decided to make another site to dump all these videos on. Most only have a…

Tech News Jason Chen

Xbox 360 HD DVD Available for Preorder

The 360 HD DVD player may not be available just yet, but you can get some breathing room on everyone else this Xmas by pre-ordering yours today. Amazon has it only $199 with a release date of November 7. Goes great with the recent 360 update that enabled 1080p, but broke 360s, then was re-released.…

Tech News Jason Chen

Toshiba Launches New Gigabeat: Possible Zune ‘Nano’ Prototype?

Dealzmodo: $100 off Xbox 360 Core or Premium at MicroCenter

Use The Xbox HD-DVD Drive on Your Windows PC

Zune Sold Early At Bay Area Best Buy

PS3’s Charge Cable vs. Xbox 360’s Charge Cable

Official Zune Premium Headphones and Magnetic Remote

VAF Octavio: Kinky Leather Zune Boombox

Zune Fact: Music Will Be Redownloadable

Microsoft Zune: Paying off the Industry One Label at a Time

Zune New York Party Recap

Fire Up Your BitTorrents: Vista’s Gone Gold

Zune User Interface: Runs Like Butter

Zune File Transfer Race

Xbox NY Party Recap

Xbox 360 Hard Drive Leaked at 70+ Gigs?

Zune Q&A: Ask

How Does The Xbox 360 HD DVD Work?

Sizemodo: Zune vs. iPod

Zune Arts Zune Animation Home

Xbox 360 HD DVD Available for Preorder

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