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New Zune Hardware Confirmed, Will Connect To Xbox

More details on how the new Zune HD and the Xbox 360 will work together at E3 next week.

Higher and deffer.
Higher and deffer.
Microsoft has confirmed the existence of the Zune HD, a new version of its multimedia audio/video playback... thing. The new HD model will feature an OLED display, an HDMI out for viewing media on your TV, and support for HD Radio.

But the real news, at least as it pertains to the gaming world is that the Zune Marketplace for video is going to make its way to the Xbox 360 dashboard, essentially replacing the current Xbox Live video Marketplace in North America and parts of Europe. How will it be different than the existing service? It'll probably have a fat Zune logo on it. After all, the press release does specify that "Zune will occupy the first slot within the Xbox user interface in the Xbox LIVE Video Marketplace, exposing the Zune brand experience to millions of new consumers for the first time." As if the dashboard the 360 has now isn't already way, way over-branded.

For any other differences, we'll probably have to wait and see what Microsoft has to say about this newfound device synergy next Monday at its pre-E3 press conference.
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