Damn, did anyone out there manage to catch the demo video that showed burnout for the Zune HD on camera? I would have asked to see the remote and gone back to catch it on video but they were closing up by the time I saw it. Someone out there must have captured it.
Yeah, I saw that video too, along with the App button under marketplace. We rewatched it quite a few times, but there really wasn't much to glean other than the fact that yeah, it was a full 3D version of Burnout. Should be fun. According to the Microsoft guy there, we weren't actually supposed to see some of those videos, they are the promo videos that are supposed to come on the actual Zune. Unfortunately for him, the four people there at the time were my friend and I, along with two other people our age (17) who knew what the fuck was up, so we went straight to places we probably wern't supposed to.
@ifalldownstairs: Haha, same here, I grabbed it and went straight to Marketplace and caught a picture/video of the apps menu. After that I went to the tethering app on my G1 to use the internet at which point they flatout said they couldn't let me, and stopped me from using it.Seemed like the reps weren't very well prepared for any real questions or people actually trying to use the device.
The guy at the location I went to (Lynnwood, WA) actually seemed pretty knowledgeable, but he really wasn't allowed to tell much. For some reason they had a guy fly up from LA to do the Seattle area presentations, even though Redmond is less than 45 minutes away
Interesting. The guy at my nearest Best Buy (Pentagon City, DC) wouldn't let anyone even touch the real thing "Microsoft has a very strict rule that we're not allowed to let anyone play with it" (which kind of defeated the purpose of the whole thing). Wonder if that's in response to people seeing things they shouldn't have.
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Damn, did anyone out there manage to catch the demo video that showed burnout for the Zune HD on camera? I would have asked to see the remote and gone back to catch it on video but they were closing up by the time I saw it. Someone out there must have captured it.
Yeah, I saw that video too, along with the App button under marketplace. We rewatched it quite a few times, but there really wasn't much to glean other than the fact that yeah, it was a full 3D version of Burnout. Should be fun. According to the Microsoft guy there, we weren't actually supposed to see some of those videos, they are the promo videos that are supposed to come on the actual Zune. Unfortunately for him, the four people there at the time were my friend and I, along with two other people our age (17) who knew what the fuck was up, so we went straight to places we probably wern't supposed to.
@ifalldownstairs: Haha, same here, I grabbed it and went straight to Marketplace and caught a picture/video of the apps menu. After that I went to the tethering app on my G1 to use the internet at which point they flatout said they couldn't let me, and stopped me from using it.Seemed like the reps weren't very well prepared for any real questions or people actually trying to use the device.
The guy at the location I went to (Lynnwood, WA) actually seemed pretty knowledgeable, but he really wasn't allowed to tell much. For some reason they had a guy fly up from LA to do the Seattle area presentations, even though Redmond is less than 45 minutes away
Interesting. The guy at my nearest Best Buy (Pentagon City, DC) wouldn't let anyone even touch the real thing "Microsoft has a very strict rule that we're not allowed to let anyone play with it" (which kind of defeated the purpose of the whole thing). Wonder if that's in response to people seeing things they shouldn't have.