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After Lots of Rumuors Microsoft confirmed its plans to take on the iPod Touch with a new, touch-screen Zune that will be able to surf the Web, play high-definition movies, and tune in to digital radio. The Zune HD will arrive in the U.S. sometime this fall and comes with an OLED touchscreen and HD radio among its main features. The OLED screen has a 480 by 272 pixel resolution so it can show widescreen video across the entire display when flipped on its side.
The Zune HD can also play videos on a TV. The player supports files up to 720-line resolution — the lower of two resolutions considered “high-definition” — and will down-convert them for playback on the display but play them at full resolution when hooked-up to a TV.
“This device is created to go head to head with the iPod Touch,” Chris Stephenson, general manager of global marketing for Microsoft Zune, said in a telephone interview on Tuesday. Zune buyers will also be able to play HD content on their TVs via a dock, Microsoft said.
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I wish there was one of these with a 250gb hard drive, i’d be sold.