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  • it also depends on the headphones.

  • fail

  • zune is the worlds cruddiest music player. In my opinion its just a polycarbonate piece of plaster thats chunky and bulky

  • I bet if the ipod was not ever invented the zune wouldnt be either

  • the ipod touch can play youtube videos and the zune hd cant i think i would rather have youtube more than joust browers that i have to read like the zune ipod has better internet idk about the sound quality

  • I love the zune but that wasn't a "landslide" victory. They should have asked more people

  • ipod!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • i do like the zune more but they also need to ask more than 6 people thats just ridiculus

  • 4 to 2 is nowdays a landslide victory.

  • So, they have different DACs and different DSPs, who would have guessed?

  • zune did sound but

    IPOD STILL IS BETTER

  • If this video proves nothing else just like Coke and Pepsi before it, people just like different stuff. Some people prefer Apple iPod some people prefer Microsoft Zune. I have both and I love both.

  • was that Joy Division?

  • Zune can play entire albums over wifi. Without downloading them.

  • Wow! the brick won! lol

  • i think they both good!

  • plus they only did 6 people, what the hell is that?

  • If the songs were put into AAC for the ipod, then they would sound better. It's been proven that AAC is better

  • Zune plays acc too dumbass.

  • you're right, that was a dumb ass thing I said.  I didn't know what I was talking about back then

  • wow, the brick won? i think microsoft paid those people to vote for it

  • Congrats your balls droppd

  • what are you talking about? that response made no sense to my statement, maybe you should think before you say something, and dont try to act tough online, it just does not work

  • What was my respones?

  • Just saw it, maybe i responded to wrong person cuz that shit dont make sense, Congrats your balls dropped hahah dont know why i put that

  • thats a lie ipod only got one vote, in the first on they pluged in the ipod then the zune,the guy pick the last one ( witch was the zune ) and they said it was an ipod ...wth?

  • Psp

  • I just got a zune for christmas and my friend got an ipod. So I compared them side by side and my zune is really awsome you fucking ifans.

  • welcome to the social. too bad you own a Zune and have no friends.

  • So your saying you have to have an ipod because "everyone" does? Please. Ipods are shit. They freeze on you all the time. The zune is better and has never froze unlike apples ishit product. Enjoy catoring to apple because it seems they have already made a puppet out of you. Be a leader not a follower.

  • on the first chalenge when the ipod played it started not at the beginging

  • Ipod was out before zune. If they were released at the same time, I guarentee you the zune would be more popular.

  • buuullllsshhiiittt

  • Whatever you say ifan. :)

    just accept the fact that Microsoft will ALWAYS beat apple.

  • The test was riged they paid them off

  • See this is what I hate about you mac fans. If microsoft gets something goo it's either a copy or they pay people off. PLEASE. Microsoft has way more money so they can obviously make a better product. Zune is better.

  • microsoft has a history of making cheap products... and if they have soo much money, why are they getting a shitload of complaints from people about their zunes malfunctioning

  • You are SOOOO right! How about all those XBox 360s that needed to be recalled for hardware failures that cost MS 1.15 BILLION to repair! And then there was those 14.1 million pesky Xbox power cords that were recalled after a discovering that a defect in those cords gave some users minor burns or carpet damage. XP

  • soo thats wat happens to every system when they first come out

  • Since when? I would never say these things CAN'T happen but I have owned almost every major home video game system including Coleco Telstar, Coleco Telstar Arcade, Atari 2600, Colecovision, Sega Genesis, Sega CD, Sega 32X, Nintendo NES, Super Nintendo, PS1, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64, Sega Dreamcast, PS2 & PS3 Most of which the year of release and I have never had any problems with ANY of them.

  • You do know there are a large number of people who leave their 360's on constantly... I'm just saying, because it's no wonder people's 360's die and they get burned from the brick. *shrug*

  • I can certainly believe that. But they do not do a recall of that magnitude without there being serious inherent issues. Either way that should NOT happen. I can't speak to the cord issue because I do not know anyone who had that particular problem. But I do have a good friend who does NOT leave his machine on and one day he got that same "permanent hardware failure" (at least I think that is what it said) error. They did replace it after he sent it back to them. Ugh!

  • Everyone that said the Zune is better is right! I have a Zune, and its sound quality WITH the original headphones i got with it is the best sound i have ever heard in my life. Any kind of song, any style, the Zune has perfect sound quality, so it won because its better. And the Zune is in no way a brick. My friend has an ipod video and its wider than my Zune, a little tinny tiny thinner, but weighs the same. Zune kicks ipod ass!

  • They need to sample a hell of a lot more people before anything can be definitive about the sound quality. Try 50 people, and then we can come back and have a serious discussion. Also, each person should have listened to several sound bits with different characterisitics on each player.

  • are you joking? the ipod is definitely the ugliest mp3 player ever made. just go to best buy and compare it to ever other mp3 player. the zune is beautiful. pictures of it do it no justice.

  • Zune is eleagant, and, are you high? The Zune has a built-in equalizer; some modes include, rock, electronic, and jazz. And zune ISN'T a brick, it's hardly bigger. EVERY iPod lover says that crap.

  • What a mac fan. XDDD

    When ipod first came out it was big and bulky to. The zune will get smaller and better.

  • HAHAHA, Zune pwns.

    All you iFanboys need to learn that your POS cant adapt to the ever changing market of MP3's.

    Same concept every year, never anything new to offer but more storage or better sound quality(which is still shitty as you can tell from this vid).

    Zune will become what the iPod has, and all you guys can do is sit, watch, and wait.

    (Dont worry though it will be over quicker than you think)

    ZUNE PWNS!

  • completely ridiculous but... I have to admit, I think the Zune sounds better than the Ipod, but I think that depends on the music you are listening to... I tend to like heavy metal and progressive music and the zune sounds better... my friend though likes electronic music and hip hop and the ipod sounds better for that... this is all with the equalizer turned off on both btw

  • what was the song they used to test?

  • well you gotta understand the difference from pronounced bass fx and flat sound. a flat sound will always sound better to the more refined connoisseur of music and the pronounced "saturated" bass sound tends to appeal to the average person simply because it is easier to relate to the emotions and messages of the song but sadly saturated bass isn't the way the song was recorded in the first place.

  • zune and ipod have the same d->a converter... the same one. so this is rediculous

  • Bingo!!!!

  • agree 150%

  • yeah the zune toaly owns ipod... dont support apple.. suckeh my bawls

  • BTW I'm not an apple lover...I like Microsoft more but the Ipod wins...

  • Plus Ipod is been longer and has a simple and easy system that perfectly syncs (Itunes) with it...You have so many Ipods to choose from and has options like 1g 2g 4g 5g 10g (etc...) you can hack it to play all sorts of files, you can put games on it...use it as a back up hardrive and best for me...Has 80 gigs of space (which I'm using 72 gigs of it...IPOD WINS!!!

  • Ok and the zune will be hackable in the future. The iPod has been the same for how many years now? So once they got it hacked it didn't take much effort to keep it hacked, dumbass.

  • "Zune comes in 3 colors" uhh brown "Zune has longer battery life" when on default brightness it has 30 more minutes of video but when turned down you can get a whole other hour from the Ipod!!!

  • I would of gotten a zune except it sucks...Sure the audio is slightly better but it fails in so many more places..."Zune has bigger screen so it plays bettervideo" well no. Zune plays the same ratio video as the Ipod so it has to strech the video..."Zune has radio" yeah which sucks up the battery...why are you ising the radio for?

  • Everyone piss and moans about the zune only having the 2play thing on wifi. you all just bitch because ipod dont have. sure its not what you wanted but its something. Ill have you know with third parties software you will most likey be able to change those rules, maybe even use the wifi to connect to other devices. The fact is that its there! It has the ability to expand. For example, somehow my friend had transfered his ps2 mem into flash ram and eventually got linux running on it.

  • sorry i meant 3play

  • The zune kicks ass the ipod suxs

  • yeah whatever ZUNE RULES !!!1

  • land slide victory you kidding mr first off nott one thing is good about the zune besides the fact it has a built in radio. well guess what i just picked up an fm am radio form a store for a dollar ipods are so much better

  • man i never pay attention to these "get one free " things but i used 90490817 and got 300 credits . almost enough to get an ps3 . its worth a shot anyway . use that code at xpango dot com and give it a shot !

  • The Zune rocks

  • i admit it is true the zune does sound better

  • Hell Yeah Thats Right Microsoft ALWAYS Wins

    Xbox 360 is better than PS3 and Zune is better than iPOD

  • and thats why 75% of america (and the world) still choose the Ipod. OOps did i say that out loud?

  • because everyone is a damn follower...its time for ipod to have competition oh and by the way i use to love the ipod until i bought the zune and omg i loved it

  • ipod was out 4 years before so yeah thats why more users...for now.

  • so even though Sony had mp3 players about a year before Apple did, Apple only has a greater marketshare because it was older?

  • No, apple is a bigger company then sony and had better marketing then sony did. Now that Microsoft has joined the game, they know how to have an even better marketing campaign which is why apple was worried about the zune when it was first released. Also did you know apple use to dominate the computer market but who passed them? Microsoft. The same willl be with the zune.

  • now a professional site says the zune is better than the iPod, and these stupid apple fanboys still think they can convince people that the ipod is better. hilarious.

  • Yay for the Zune ^^!!

  • only 6 samples?

    let's try 100

    and all indoors or outdoors

    both the ipod/zune use similar Wolfson Microelectronics chip sets, so something is bogus with this 6 sample test.

  • I have a Zune and I can tell you I use it to it's max potential: Sennheisers Cx300s sound AMAZING. OH MY GOD, I have never heard anything sound better in my life.

    To Apple fanboys, please, if you were given a sound test it would be the Zune that would favor you.

  • Keep in mind that the Zune is over a year more recent than the Video is. It should have SIGNIFICANT better sound quality.

  • correct. the iPod which hasn't been updated for a LONG time uses the sound chip: Wolfson Microelectronics WM8758

    The Zune which is less than a year old:

    Wolfson Microelectronics WM8978G

    The Zune will behind again once the widescreen iPod is released in September. It's called leapfrog and the Zune has a tiny difference in quality at the moment.

  • which song is it playing at 1:34?

  • some arcade fire song...

  • Come on - it just 6 ppl - hardly can say it a real outcome but Veronica is cool (and Jasmine - didn't know she looks that great) so its just fun thing to C.

  • did microsoft buy CNET? :\

  • Just because the zune won does not mean microsoft funded it. If the iPod had won would you be saying that apple bought cnet??- didn't think so.

  • i had a friend that just got an ipod, starting using it and learned what DRM is and how annoying itunes is. she believes me now about technology.

  • im glad i own a zune..zune rocks...ipod gets better sales just because of all the ignorant people who just go with what's popular...

  • ahh right on then i did'nt know there was a difference in sound quality.. but woot for me cuz i own a brown one

  • Woohoo! I'm glad I own a Zune.

  • 6 people is hardly a statistically powerful sample size. Given that, I agree that the Zune sounds better than the iPod, and I've owned both.

  • Lol. This was a pretty good video. To tell you the truth, they both have the same audio quality to my ears. It doesn't make any difference to me. But to me, the Zune wins. I mean the UI, the way it works, it's functions, it just fits me more better than the ipod does. The ipod's cool, but the Zune wins my heart more.

  • The iPod gets louder then the Zune, but the Zune definitely sounds better. Zune FTW!

  • are u suerious??? zune sounds a lot better.

  • can u really tell the audio quality between the two?

  • Yeah, its about the same though.

  • WOOOOOOOO go zune in your FAce ipod loaners!

  • you should have done the same thing with the zen vision m aswell.

  • lol Zune is cheaper and cooler. I think there should be a Zune Phone or a New Zune

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