Adam Krebs
09-15-2009, 03:53 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='https://zunestore.net/us/catalog/index.aspx' target='_blank'>https://zunestore.net/us/catalog/index.aspx</a><br /><br /></div><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/zt/auto/1253025275.usr495.jpg" style="border: 0;" width="500" /></p><p>The Zune HD has launched, and with it the famed Zune Originals artist series. This time, you can order a Zune HD 16 GB player in black, or a 32 GB Zune HD in red, blue, green, or platinum and get a "tattoo" engraved on the back of the device. There are 20 artist series tattoos, several of them available previously, an Xbox (games) series, and an <a href="http://www.mlsnet.com/" target="_blank">MLS</a> series (remind me why this isn't international?). Overall I'm left a bit underwhelmed. The colors look frankly pretty awful, with the red a bit more magenta than I would've hoped, and unlike what <a href="http://www.zunethoughts.com/news/show/94998/zune-hd-comes-in-more-capcacities-colors-than-we-thought.html" target="_blank">I read from WinSupersite</a>, the black is limited to the 16 GB player only. Perhaps I'm not enough of a hipster for most of the designs, but only the Jasper Goodall piece really speaks to me at all. And even while it's a pretty funny design, I can't think of engraving a <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=queen b" target="_blank">Queen Bee</a> on the back of a device I'm going to use daily. Perhaps I'm hating a bit too much but I was sort of hoping for more this time.</p>