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hey guys it's Brandon Minnemann from TechnoBuffalo and we're really excited to bring you the unboxing of the Zune HD a device that we've been waiting for for a very long time this device is aimed right at the ipod touch and it brings some things that the ipod touch doesn't have it has the super fast and Vidya Tegra platform which should provide awesome graphics it also has HD radio support which pretty much no mobile devices out there has right now it also has an OLED screen which should mean better power consumption and a really really crisp display the blacks are super black on an OLED screen and colors really pop it also can do 720p output in terms of video so if you have movies on the Zune HD you can take it to your friend's house plug it in to a a flat panel with an HDMI cable and watch a video in true high-definition so let's get to the unboxing very small box Zune HD let's take a look around the box kind of a feature list here Wireless and as Wi-Fi media player music HD radio video multi-touch has a web browser like the iPod Touch and you can also get games on it in the future they're gonna have 3d games to start it's going to launch with a few kind of basic games so let's get inside the package Wow gorgeous display on the front here we're gonna put the device to the side for a second see what else we get in the box zoom everywhere it's kind of dump these things out and this probably talks about the Zune Pass and using the zoom software we'll get into that later of course 14 days of free music you can try the Zune pass for free for 14 days very nice download as much music as you like it looks like we have some connectors in here usb on the right and headphones on the left so we can take this out welcome to Zune HD in other languages Zune product guide okay and we've got the USB cable headphones with a variety of colors standard stuff here well let's take a look at what we've been waiting for the device itself okay so here we have the device we have some notes on the front here download the latest software to your PC from Zoo net slash setup the devices don't come with software which is a very interesting move something we haven't seen yet it probably saves Microsoft a little bit of production time on each device and thus lowers the cost which you know I really don't mind I'm gonna plug it in anyway to my computer so if it's an extra two minutes on my end to to put on the software it's not a big deal and it says charge your Zune using the supplied cable for at least 30 minutes before use got it let's take out the device Wow this device is very small very very light in hand gorgeous 3.3 inch display let's see what the back looks like wow look at that brushed metal with the screw look very industrial looking gorgeous design fits very nicely in hand the edges are super slim like the iPod Touch doesn't feel thick at all it's very small feels like a media player feels like it could be a cell phone too bad it's not and we've got one button in the front here let's do some concise comparisons okay so here's the Zune HD next to the iPod Touch 3rd generation probably its closest competitor the iPod Touch has a 3.5 inch screen the Zune HD has a three point three inch to screen they've different resolutions on the Zune HD it's 480 down and 272 across whereas on the iPod Touch it's a little bit higher 3 480 down that is and 320 across I did the calculations and the pixel density on the Zune HD is actually slightly higher by just 2 PPI which really doesn't make a difference at the end of the day let's see how they look in terms of thickness the ipod touch definitely feels thinner though I wouldn't be surprised if the dimensions from the very edge of the ipod touch to the top is the same as on the Zune HD it's just a matter of how they make the sides I have to say that the ipod touch feels higher quality in hand probably because more metal has been used on the device than on the Zune HD let's see how it looked next to the Samsung omnia - the only other device that I can think of that's available to the mass market that has the OLED screen and let's take a look at it next to the HTC touch diamond2 a lot of people said that HTC would be making the Zune HD because they look so similar but looking at them closer up and not in pictures they're really not that similar so we can kind of debunk that myth that they are based off one another and something I just know it's kind of funny here it says hello from Seattle of course Microsoft is based out of that area here's the power button on the top let's see what happens okay we got the Zune logo this device is so slim and sleek looking it's pretty amazing little Zune animation kind of got the spectrum of color wow maybe it does have software unless this is a startup video okay it looks like it does have some software on it but of course we're going to connect this to a computer update to the latest software and we're gonna take a look at everything about the Zune HD we're gonna take wow and here's a video playing right now I can tell you that the quality of the screen is insane it's gorgeous the blacks are totally pitch black it's not like a standard LCD on se the iPod touch where it's kind of gray but not quite black so we've got a lot more coming up on the Zune HD follow us on Twitter to find out when the next video hits twitter.com slash TechnoBuffalo we've got full comparisons coming up with the ipod touch we're gonna do software walkthroughs talk about the applications that are on here and so much more we'll be back soon with more on the Zune HD