The first couple of days with my Zune - Matt Gerlach

Matt Gerlach

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The first couple of days with my Zune

Ive been able to play around with the zune the past two days, since getting it for Christmas.  I am liking it so far.  Have had no trouble updating it to firmware 1.2, like others may have had.

I also found, that I am able to get TV that I record via Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition, onto my Zune.  I recorded the content (AMerican Le Mans at Lime Rock).  I then cut out the commercials with DVREdit, to cut down on size.  I then used ATI's "Avivo Video Converter" to convert it to the supported format, .wmv.

I wonder what format the Zune takes, as it had to convert it from WMV9 video format, to another format before it sync it.

All in all, the quality looks as good as it did on standard TV, and when I recorded it/watched it on Media center.

Oh, I got the universal electronic color, black, for my zune.  It goes with any outfit.  HA!

Posted: Wed, Dec 27 2006 0:07 by gerlach | with 3 comment(s)

Comments

mcepat said:

just curious

why don't you simply import it into windows moviemaker and save it as a wmv file and the add it to your zune? you can cut the commercials out also in moviemaker now?

# January 25, 2007 9:31 PM

gerlach said:

I never tried that.  When I go home in March I will pull another episode from my home computer.

# January 25, 2007 10:21 PM

gerlach said:

So, I tried the movie maker edit trick, and it worked.  Never really thought of that.  It saves me the issue of installing 2 programs, one to cut and one to convert.

Thanks for the suggestion.

# January 27, 2007 8:36 PM