As far as wifi goes: you do understand how totally useless this feature is?
It is -totally- -useless-.
In exchange for draining your battery, -every- song that you share with another Zune user (if there are any others) becomes wrapped in DRM (whether it's a previously DRM-ed Zune purchase, or a track you ripped yourself from a CD, or a generic MP3 from any source).
It will play 3 times, over a 3 day period; whichever comes first. That is all.
Why would anyone want to consider that wireless is a "feature" if it is so hugely crippled?
This is a feature that they think will encourage music buying; this is basically user-supported advertising for song tracks. If Zune is such a "community" oriented ecosystem, there is certainly not any kind of unlimited wireless sharing going on here. Some community....
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disciple83 @ Sep 18th 2006 5:31PM
its the feature set that makes the $284 worthwhile...the wifi and video capapbilities especially
dmiller @ Sep 18th 2006 7:18PM
As far as wifi goes: you do understand how totally useless this feature is?
It is -totally- -useless-.
In exchange for draining your battery, -every- song that you share with another Zune user (if there are any others) becomes wrapped in DRM (whether it's a previously DRM-ed Zune purchase, or a track you ripped yourself from a CD, or a generic MP3 from any source).
It will play 3 times, over a 3 day period; whichever comes first. That is all.
Why would anyone want to consider that wireless is a "feature" if it is so hugely crippled?
This is a feature that they think will encourage music buying; this is basically user-supported advertising for song tracks. If Zune is such a "community" oriented ecosystem, there is certainly not any kind of unlimited wireless sharing going on here. Some community....