Zune HD AV Dock |  | Brand: Microsoft
Category: CE
List Price: $89.99
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Rating:  28 reviews
Format: CD
Color: black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: N/A
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 6.3 x 9.3 x 2.6
MPN: G7D-00001
Model: G7D-00001
UPC: 882224866538
EAN: 0882224866538
ASIN: B002JPITYS
Release Date: September 14, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Watch supported 720p HD movies, TV shows, and videos in high definition on your HDTV | | • | Send music to your home audio system | | • | Charge your Zune HD player while docked | | • | Control your Zune with the included wireless remote | | • | Allows syncing of supported HD videos |
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Amazon.com Product Description
Turn your home entertainment system and Zune HD player into a full HD experience! This all-in-one package enables your Zune HD to charge sync and play HD videos on your HDTV. Send music and HD Radio reception to your home audio system and control it all via a wireless remote. (Zune HD player sold separately.) - Display HD video and photos on your TV.
- For 720p HD video, plug the included HDMI cable to your HDTV. Zune HD player required.
- For 480i standard resolution, plug in the AV output cable to your TV. Zune HD, Zune 120, or Zune 80 players required.
- Listen to your music collection or HD Radio stations. Connect to your home audio system using the provided cables. (Zune HD player required for HD Radio reception.)
- Wireless remote control. The wireless remote allows you to control your Zune player from anywhere in the room.
- Small and convenient AC adapter. This small AC adapter easily fits into crowded power strips.
- Included: dock, three inserts (one for each Zune model), wireless remote, AC adapter, HDMI cable, and AV output cable.
Disclaimer:
Zune players sold separately. Zune HD player and HDTV are required to view supported video files at 720p HD resolution and listen to HD Radio reception. HD Radio is not currently available in Canada. Click here for more information about HD Radio.
Product Description
The G7D-00001 Zune HD AV Dock includes dock, three inserts (one for each Zune model), wireless remote, AC adapter, HDMI cable, and AV output cable (Zune HD player sold separately). The G7D-00001 is compatible with Zune HD (32 & 16), Zune 120, Zune 80, Zune 16, Zune 8, and Zune 4.
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 Outstanding 720p output - one gen away from perfection. September 26, 2009
Alex Alexzander (San Francisoc, CA)
48 out of 49 found this review helpful
So obviously I bought a Zune HD a short time ago, and like you I heard that you could attached the Zune HD to a HD TV and watch 720p output from the Zune HD to the HDTV. I will state up front that I was not only skeptical, I flat out expected this not to be able to keep up without skipping. I am happy to report that this whole system actually works and works perfectly.
Couple things threw me.
This needs a power source. You either power it from the USB power of a PC, or you use the USB to AC adapter which is included. You can't just throw the Zune HD in the doc with nothing for a power source.
If you use it with your PC's USB port for power, it duos as a sync dock. That means, Marketplace will auto start and want to sync with your Zune. And it's up to you to quit that software so that the Zune HD will display it's menu on your LCD or Plasma TV. It help s to read the manual, but who's kidding who here. Manuals? I thought those were just extra box padding, right?
I actually believe it's best to place this right next to your TV and use AC power. Leave the remote right next to the dock by your TV. Then all you ever have to do is place it in the dock when you want to use it with your TV. I'd rather keep using the sync cable that came with the Zune HD as the sync method, and leave this exclusively for the TV.
So enough of that hardware and on to the good stuff.
You won't get all of the menu items on your Zune HD on your LCD TV with this. I was actually hoping you would. I was hoping you'd get to browse the internet on it or something. Wouldn't that be cool. Here is what you do get:
- Music
- Videos
- Pictures
- Radio
- Podcasts
I truly wanted this to watch video podcasts and movies on my 32" LCD TV. Many podcasts will not look too good, but at least I can watch Jim Cramer's Mad Money on CNBC on my TV via the podcast. That's pretty great in my opinion. So on to the movies:
I bought an HD movie on Zune Marketplace called "Battle for Terra". If you do look for this title, cause it's great for kids, you mostly see TERRA in the title. "Battle for" is written smaller. So just look for something like TERRA in big letters. The movie is very good and worth watching. So how did it look?
I am in utter awe of this now. You will be too. Right at the start when the intro starts, you see how crisp and clean the video is on your wide screen HD TV. And just that quickly you see where your money went, and oh boy is it worth it. WOW! I still cannot believe this little tiny Zune HD drove my 32" HD TV without any compromise. It's perfect, five stars wow. You get a remote too, so sit back and enjoy the movie. In fact, I like this so much, I am now trying to figure out who to write a letter to so as to convince them to make a much smaller portable version of this dock for travel. They should make an app for PowerPoint viewing as well. I'd love to have a single small cable that just went from Zune to HDMI so I could walk into a hotel and plug this right into their TV and watch MY Movies, not what the hotel offers. This is the world's smallest video library as far as I can tell.
The Zune HD's Tegra video chip works! It really works. I have small laptops that can't produce video output this well. We are entering into a new age. I can see so much more opportunity for technology like this. But to keep this review on point, I'll just state that the movie, which I watched from start to finish, was crisp, clear and perfect. No skips of any kind. It's in fact better than DVD or Blu-ray for one simple reason... You can't have any disc issues. You're playing the video off NAND memory. No moving parts! And that means stability. I'd rather have this than a DVD or Blu-ray player. Why not just buy or rent our movies and get them right over the internet. You know why that has always sounded like a bad idea? Because never before could you really take that movie with you somewhere. Not truly anyway. Portable means you can go to your friends house and watch the movie you rented there. And with this, you can do just that. Of course they have to have a dock too, or you have to take yours with you. Which is why I state that a portable cord would be the killer app for this. We're so close to making digital purchase and rental truly perfect. I know that's what I want. I want to rent or buy a movie, and I want to be able to watch it on my friend's TV or mine. For now, I am watching on mine and I can watch it on the device itself. Which is by the way so much better than an iPod Touch. Why? One huge reason...
OLED vs LED based LCD
All Zune HDs use OLED, not LCD. And the difference isn't rocket science. I'm sure your friends have an iPod Touch or iPhone. Watch the screen and tilt it in your hands. Because the light source is behind the screen you will notice that the picture gets horrible the more your angle changes. Okay, this is why many devices tell you what the viewing angle is.
OLED doesn't have a light source behind the panels. It's all just one technology. The results are far better image quality and from virtually any angle. See for yourself. The Zune HD's video performance is the best screen you likely own. I know it sounds like I'm a nut, but it's true. See for yourself. The Zune HD has a OLED screen and an nVidia Tegra video processor. This little Zune is state of the art for video. It will rival many laptops for video performance.
Anyway, the Zune AV blew me away. Watch Podcasts on your TV. I love that, though the picture quality of your average podcast is not great. But buy or rent movies on the Zune HD and you will be so very impressed.
Now, the AV dock comes with EVERYTHING you need. I know the first two reviewer said things like, buy the other dock, and buy your own HDMI cable. Neither of them actually state that the $50 dock as an HDMI or not. So I still don't know, but I am guessing that's what they mean. But before you do that, consider this.
In the AV dock for the Zune HD, you get the following:
The dock itself
A USB power adapter
HDMI cable
The regular RCA type cables in case you don't have an HDMI based TV
And a remote
The dock even has TOSLINK which is that fiber type connector.
In other words, you buy this kit and you're covered. Everything you need is here. The Doc has a built in cable that is USB on the other end and that goes into the PC for sync or attaches to a power block with AC prongs for AC power in any standard power strip. There is a built in FM HD antenna as well.
There is one thing I wish it had. I wish it had the Zune Marketplace right on the menu when you are docked into your HD TV. It would be even better if you could dock it, and then go to the marketplace and watch previews and then buy or rent right from your HD TV. Microsoft is perhaps one generation away from the next big leap forward. Perhaps the next generation Zune will finally put the nails in the coffins of DVD and Blu-ray. We're very close to having a system that just replaces both of those silly old technologies.
This thing is $89 but it's so worth it. Call me crazy, but I'm seriously considering buying another one of these docks and giving it my friend for his TV so I can plug my zune in over there when I visit. Maybe one for the HD TV in the office AV room as well. Microsoft should really create the next zune to easily attach to any TV with just a single cable.
Works To Mostly to My Satisfaction October 15, 2009
G. Gould
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This product works fairly well. Charges the battery up very quickly. Every part of it works great, except that I wasn't able to broadcast 720p on my one TV with it, instead I had to settle for 480p. Other than that I am satisfied with the product and its usefullness!
Amazing October 18, 2009
Lee J. Zuckett (Bellevue, WA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The AV Dock and the Zune HD itself are truly amazing - the video quality on my TV (55in Samsung LED 8000) even at 720p was incredible. I just plugged it in and it worked.
Get this to complete the Zune HD Experience November 2, 2009
S. Yu (New York, NY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Already enamored with my new Zune HD 32GB, I tempered my initial expectations of this add-on product.
No need to hold back any more- the Zune HD AV Docking Station further enhances the usability and utility of the Zune HD like no other media player handheld.
The 720p output of the Zune Interface, Music and Video is quite impressive and is a definite crowd-pleaser when having company over at our place. Using this dock really provides a showcase platform for the Zune vs. the iPod for instance. Pretty slick remote control to run things from afar as well.
This is worth the additional investment as it provides even greater value that the Zune brings to the table.
For New Lower Price of $65, it's a No-Brainer January 1, 2010
mom2sarah... (Windy City)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I got my husband the Zune HD 32 GB for Christmas and soon he was "eyeing" the HD Dock for the "total" HD experience. Briefly this is what it allows it to do:
-Watch supported 720p HD movies, TV shows, and videos in high definition on your HDTV
-Send music to your home audio system
-Charge your Zune HD player while docked
-Control your Zune with the included wireless remote
-Allows syncing of supported HD videos
We were debating between this and the HD Dock (without HDMI cables or A/C Adapter) but for $65, it was a "no-brainer". The regular HD dock was on sale too ($40) but we figured it would cost us $10 for A/C adapter, $5 for HDMI cable PLUS we have to order it from 2-3 different stores and wait for the various components to get here. Therefore, it was worth the $10 premium to have it all delivered together using Prime 2-day delivery ! If you own the Zune HD, I would definitely grab this before the price goes back up ! It normally retails for $89 which is way too much.
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