Archive for January 14th, 2010

Zune HD to get Facebook, new codecs, Smart DJ in early 2010

 

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My inbox was crazy last week at CES and as I was cleaning it out early this morning, I saw an email from the Zune PR team talking about some updates coming soon. Microsoft has been really showing off demos of this at CES, but my schedule was already packed, so I had no get a chance to see these new features. Sometimes, the early part of this year, spring we will see Smart DJ and additional video content support with Facebook coming.

Smart DJ on the Zune Personal Computer software and Zune.net is a very cool feature that mixes up the music for you and plays it just like a live DJ. The Smart DJ functionality on the Zune HD will work by pulling music stored on your Zune HD, along with music from the Zune Marketplace when you are conneced through a WiFi network.

The additional video support will roll out with MPEG-4 part 2 Advanced Simple Profile support. Popular codecs applying this standard are DivX, Xvid and Nero Digital.

Now that CES is over and I spent a few days walking several miles I jumped back on the training regime last night, rocking tunes on my Zune HD set into my DLO Action Jacket. I hope that the Smart DJ functionality and will let you know when the update is available.