- Nov 22, 2007
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The other day I tested my Zune 120 to see how long the battery lasts through almost uninterrupted video playback, the results were surprisingly good: a bit over 6 hours. I made it through 3:10 to Yuma (02h 04m), Across the Universe (02h 13m), and part of Atonement (01h 43m) before the battery went kaput.
After a few too many bumps to the head my 120, the Black Baron, has developed some serious HDD-related problems that caused certain songs to become lost and unplayable, I think I may have to replace the Baron. Usually when the problem arises the song stops playing (maybe the audio but not necessarily the timer) and the HDD starts to chug. Sometimes it's whole song that's unplayable and other times it's parts of songs but it's always a problem. Either way, I feel I need to replace the Black Baron.
I want to know how the 3.x SSD-based Zunes and the Zune HD compare in terms of battery life. Hopefully I can do this without turning this into a Zune v. iPod thread but I was also wondering how long video playback lasts with the iPod Touch. I was so shocked I had exceeded Microsoft's Zune estimates (04hrs video playback) by 50% that I told my roommate, who I knew would be 100% uninterested in anything Zune-related, about my results. He told me his Touch can play 8~10 hours of video with a lot of battery remaining. While I expected the iPod would do better in terms of batter than my 120 (the Touch is much newer and I doubt the 3.x software has changed over the years dramatically) that sounds much better than anyone else has told me about the Touch.
Thanks in advance.
I use low screen brightness, wireless is off, videos are encoded by the Zune Software using the device setting, and my volume was set to 8 as I was indoors.
After a few too many bumps to the head my 120, the Black Baron, has developed some serious HDD-related problems that caused certain songs to become lost and unplayable, I think I may have to replace the Baron. Usually when the problem arises the song stops playing (maybe the audio but not necessarily the timer) and the HDD starts to chug. Sometimes it's whole song that's unplayable and other times it's parts of songs but it's always a problem. Either way, I feel I need to replace the Black Baron.
I want to know how the 3.x SSD-based Zunes and the Zune HD compare in terms of battery life. Hopefully I can do this without turning this into a Zune v. iPod thread but I was also wondering how long video playback lasts with the iPod Touch. I was so shocked I had exceeded Microsoft's Zune estimates (04hrs video playback) by 50% that I told my roommate, who I knew would be 100% uninterested in anything Zune-related, about my results. He told me his Touch can play 8~10 hours of video with a lot of battery remaining. While I expected the iPod would do better in terms of batter than my 120 (the Touch is much newer and I doubt the 3.x software has changed over the years dramatically) that sounds much better than anyone else has told me about the Touch.
Thanks in advance.
I use low screen brightness, wireless is off, videos are encoded by the Zune Software using the device setting, and my volume was set to 8 as I was indoors.
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