@cmsb55
Want to play HD videos on your HDTV from your Ipod? Too bad, you can't no matter how much you're willing to pay.
Want to listen to just FM radio (not even counting HD radio) on the Ipod touch, perhaps a talk show that's not on Pandora? Too bad, you can't. I'd also be surprised if we don't see a Pandora app quick enough for the Zune HD.
OLED and Tegra help with the UI responsiveness and playing videos, not just games.

On to bluetooth, wait you mean you want to use a limited bandwidth bluetooth connection to play music and loose a lot of sound quality? No thanks, I won't be missing bluetooth. 64GB of memory, alright, chalk that one up to Ipod, but I'd be surprised if MS doesn't have one in the works. App store, it took Apple quite some time to get this established, so give MS a few months and see what it looks like then.

The reason people are excited for this is that its the first PMP that can really compete with Apple. Competition is always a good thing as it drives innovation and price, thus being beneficial to the consumer at the end. I don't understand why apple fanboys get up in arms about this. This will make apple work harder to deliver better products, so why are you complaining?

The rep in the Minneapolis area was actually a MS employee. He was plenty knowledgeable about the device, including why they weren't letting the public play with the device (he said the firmware had not been finalized yet, so they didn't want the public playing with a beta version of the firmware). I also found it amusing that the display was set up right in front of the MP3 player, totally blocking the ipods. He also confirmed that Apps and games would be coming. I told him to go back and tell MS to do a Pandora app, I hope he listens.

As for the device itself, like everyone else has stated, I was thoroughly impressed. Very smooth UI, very slick, and I can't wait to use it for HD radio when I'm on the go. It helped me decide to finally pre-order the Zune vs waiting to see what happens with the Zii egg.

me?

me

I'll take one

Pick me Pick me!

pick me pick me!

I'd take it for free I guess.

I don't agree with the Tivo pricing they have listed here. For $770, you can buy a regular Tivo HD for $250, a DVR expander for $120, and a Lifetime subscription for $400. That gives you 680GB of storage, netflix streaming, amazon vod, and youtube. And its cheaper than Moxi.

Or for the same price of $770 and some technical know how, you can expand the Tivo HD with a different external eSATA hard drive and bump the capacity up to 1.1TB

I could use this.