08-25-2006, 07:02 PM
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FCC Zune User Manual
I've grabbed the Zune user manual from the FCC site and have dug into it a little to learn more about Zune. Below are some of the key points from the user manual, but you can check it out for yourself as well.
- Clearly, this is a very rough, spartan user manual. It doesn't need to be pretty to meet FCC approval, it just needs to have the basics.
- The hard drive used is a 1.8 inch, 30 GB model, made by Toshiba
- The device will support USB 2.0
- FM tuner with RDBS support (that has some cool possibilities if your local radio stations use it)
- WiFi support is both B and G, for up to 54 mbps theoretical speed
- Lithium Ion battery, no mention of exact mAH capacity
- It looks like it will come with USB charging only - that seems odd, but the user manual suggests the out of box experience is to connect the Zune to your computer USB port and let it charge for about two hours
- It mentions www.pyxis.com, but I somehow doubt Microsoft is partnered with Cardinal health - that's the code name. They should have just used foo.com in the manual
- The unit is turned off and on by pressing and holding the Play/Pause button for three seconds (better than having a dedicated button)
- Volume is controlled via the control pad, not a dial
- Skip Back/Forward is accomplished using the right/left on the control pad
- Moving upwards to the previous menu is accomplished using the Back button, just like on the Portable Media Center units (such as the Toshiba Gigabeat S)
- You can return to the home screen quickly by pressing and holding the back button
- Resetting (rebooting) the Zune is accomplished by pressing and holding both the Back and Play/Pause button for three seconds. No more hunting for a paperclip to poke in a tiny hole!
- Lock/Unlock is accomplished via a hardware switch
That's it for the hardware part of the manual - next up, we'll dig into the "wireless DJ" functionality.
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08-25-2006, 09:46 PM
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08-26-2006, 01:39 AM
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Now if only when they are talking about DJing mode it mentioned Video as well, but it sounds like music only to my ears.
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08-26-2006, 05:24 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by the_rapture
Now if only when they are talking about DJing mode it mentioned Video as well, but it sounds like music only to my ears.
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Hopfully u r wrong.. as this would be really sad 
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08-26-2006, 05:54 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by the_rapture
Now if only when they are talking about DJing mode it mentioned Video as well, but it sounds like music only to my ears.
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One of the FCC documents indicates that the Zune supports both audio and video playback. Something to look forward to, IMHO. 
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08-27-2006, 01:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Darius Wey
One of the FCC documents indicates that the Zune supports both audio and video playback. Something to look forward to, IMHO. |
Yes in the docs it says it will support video, but when they were talking about the ability to share music with people in the same area, in what they are calling DJing mode, it didn't mention video as being shareable. That's what I was referencing, hopefully I'm wrong, but it read music only to me.
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08-27-2006, 06:22 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by the_rapture
...in what they are calling DJing mode, it didn't mention video as being shareable.
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I'd be a bit surprised if Video DJing was supported in the first gen units - that would be pretty cool, but super bandwidth intensive and perhaps not practical right off the bat.
Hmm...(does some quick math)
Say, four streams at 500 kbps for video, that's 2 MB/s streaming. That's definitely do-able over 802.11g. I wonder how battery intensive that would be though?
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08-26-2006, 03:22 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
Resetting (rebooting) the Zune is accomplished by pressing and holding both the Back and Play/Pause button for three seconds. No more hunting for a paperclip to poke in a tiny hole!
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As a frequent user of Ctrl+Alt+Del, I find this awesomely intuitive. 
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