Last year Zune  partied it up at the 2008 Latin Grammy Awards. The Awards event was  fantastic - as this summary video produced the The Latin Recording Academy demonstrates so well:

With the nominations for the 2009 Latin Grammy Awards recently announced, and the Awards only weeks away, we wondered what part Zune would be playing in the festivites? Of course, since the last awards, Zune has partnered with Univision - perhaps they will simply participate vicariously through Univision? There is nothing on Zune, or Microsoft or even Univision to suggest that Zune will be partying along this year, but we will keep you updated. However, The 10th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards, set for Nov. 5 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, will be broadcast live on the Univision Network from 8–11 p.m. ET/PT (7 p.m. Central).

In the meantime, the Latin Grammy Street Parties have begun! The street parties aim to get local communities across North America to sing and dance Latin American style, culminating in the 10th Annual Latin Grammy awards on November 5th, 2009.  Id you want to join in, you can check out the schedule at LatinGrammy.com

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The Zune HD has only been released a week and already a game developer has demoed a new game for it! The smart guys over at Foundation42 used a game they are already developing for the iPhone and developed a Zune HD App version. It looks pretty cool - check out the video they made. Be patient they show it on several platforms - Zune HD is the second one!

Now the problem is that Microsoft apparently have not set up a way for game developers to make their games available on the Zune HD. So getting this game is not gonna be so easy!

We can see it works fine on the Zune HD- and looks to be a way better game than the ones we reviewed in our last post. And we don’t have to watch an ad before we play it!

It will be interesting to see how game developers work their way around the current limitation. These are a very ingenious bunch of people and we are betting that they will work out a way to develop  games for the Zune HD - and for us to be able to download  them!!

This is a great start fellas - bring it on!

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Well, readers of this blog know that we are not tech geeks but just Zune lovers that spend our time finding quality free Zune downloads - Muisc, Movies, TV Shows, eBooks, and games, for our readers. So, when we take a look at the new Zune HD, we are really only interested in it as a user - and not a tech geek. There are plently of tech reviews out there on the web, anyway!

As a user, three things in particular capture our interest, now that the Zune HD has been released (other than the features already discussed in a previous post).

First - we love the cool colors! The pic says it all!

Second - We love that free games that have been included. The 8 free games are: Chess,  Goo Splat, Hexic, Sudoku, Space Battle 3, Shell Game, Of the Future, and Texas Hold ‘Em. You can have a look at some of them in the following Video. They are not that exciting, to be honest. Nothing like the free games that were released for theiPhone last Septemebr, that’s for sure:

Third observation - we don’t like the ads that we have to watch while the game loads. Its not that they are a big pain. Its just that we don’t like being taken advantage of. It kind of feels like the free game are just bait being used by advertisers. Much as we object to the aggressive way Apple operates, at least their free games (and there are hundreds of them) don’t have ads!!

Finally, we reckon the price is great. We get a lot for our money, and the promise is that there are a lot of great Zune apps to come. We will keep you posted.

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In a previous post we showed you how to get free movies on Zune in four easy clicks.

This is a great system but has two problems. Firstly,  it does not convert “right protected” DVDs. Secondly, it has a big watermark in the middle of the screen!

And, the big problem is that all the videos we really wanted to convert are “right-protected”.

Now, the Zune is basically just viewing and listening device, right? - so why should we pay for yet another version of a movie we already have, just so we can watch it on our Zune?

We went looking for a solution! And we found one! Yeah, we know, we are great!

Firstly, you will need this great, super simple, FREE  bit of software called DVD43.  It sits quietly on your PC unlocking DVDs in the background, so that they can be converted and transferred to our Zune! (Rest assure,  it does nothing to the DVD, itself, just unlocks the code as it plays so that it can be “read”)

This free software allows us to now use TransferMy Video to convert all our DVDs to play on our Zune!

Which brings us to our second great find - we found a place where you can get TransferMy Video at a 15% of discount Check it out by following this link.

And that means - No more waters marks!! Just Super cool, FREE, great Movies on our Zune! (friends got any movies you’ve been wanting to watch?)

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The recent preview weekend at Best Buy gave those who went some unexpected insider information. It looks as if the new Zune touch will also offer apps!

Now when you think about the fact that Apple are currently celebrating the billionth app download, its not really surprising that Microsoft would realize that the market has spoken - clearly and loudly applauding the whole app revolution!

All the same, they have not been publicizing this feature.  In fact it was only discovered by accident - as this amateur video captures:

Our last post discussed the new Zune HD and what it has going for it. (plus where you can buy it at a discount) But it really has to be seen to be appreciated! So do check out this demo video - taken at recent the Best Buy reveal.

And the bad news is that Microsoft are discontinuing all previous Zune models!

So the next Zune you get WILL be this one!  LOL!

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