We went to Fort Worth over this weekend for a graduation. I didn’t think I would have time to do much of anything, but at the last minute while packing my suitcase I threw in the cable to charge my Zune 80. I figured I would use it in the car ride their and back, and might need to charge it.
At that moment I figured I should load a couple of movies on the Zune and take my “camcorder” video cable to hook it to the TV in the Hotel room.
I did this literarlly 5 minutes before leaving. I quickly tagged the Bourne Series of movies and started a sync. I had to cancel the sync after one movie because everyone was already in the car. Boom, one movie and a cable and no testing. Not a good way to go.
I connected the Zune to the TV when we got back to the hotel and I was able to watch The Bourne Identity on the hotel’s TV. All went perfectly. But the reason for this post was the movie file/quality. I did not have time to plan for this so I synced up the version of The Bourne Identity I made for watching on my Zune. That means it was a 320 x 240, low resolution copy of my DVD. It looked surprisingly well on the widescreen LCD TV in the hotel room. I was actually impressed. I thought for sure it would look grainy and pixelated. It looked excellent.
I am planning on taking the Zune to the coast next week for our annual trip to Rockport. I will plan the movies this time. I love my Zune.
June 8, 2009 at 5:56 am |
The Zune can work wonders, its too bad people are not aware of its capabilities.
October 9, 2009 at 9:23 am |
I’m looking for a good video conversion program that doesn’t take up too much resources. What do you use? (Program/Settings) Thanks.
October 10, 2009 at 11:48 am |
Sly,
Hands down my current favorite program is Format Factory (http://www.formatoz.com/). It is free and works good enough for what I need it for. I also used XunonMKV (http://xenonmkv.ev98.net/) for converting HD MKV files to MP4 format for my XBox 360.
Enjoy