Looking for zune deals? Well Newegg.com and Buy.com has great prices for you this holiday season.

Newegg.com has a black zune for sale at $229.99 and Buy.com sale price is $237.16. But with Google checkout you will get another $20 off taking the price to $219.16 or use Buy.com visa card and get $30 discount.

Bought a new zune and don’t know how to redeem your 14-day free trial zune pass subscription. Well I have been asked a few times now and here is what needs to be done.

First sign in to zune marketplace, go to Account Management and click Redeem Prepaid Card. Then just enter your 25 digit code and click the Redeem button. That’s it.

After the trial period ends you can cancel or sign up for a monthly subscription of $14.99 a month or a three month period for $44.97. The pass with automatically renew at the end of the period.

A few days back I posted about Microsoft preparing to roll out a software update for the zune before Christmas. Guess what, as per Cesar from zuneinsider they issued a 22 MB update today.

The update does fix a lot of known bugs, improves performance and the zune software installation process. And finally this update will also make zune compatible with vista.

Right now you can only install it via auto-update as it is not yet available for download at zune.net. I’ll post the link once they make it available.

Microsoft earlier today released the v1.2 firmware for the Zune. It features speed enhancements and a stability increase. Just plug in your Zune and the Zune PC software will tell you to update to v1.2

I updated my Zune earlier and found that the Zune PC software doesn’t seem to know when the Zune is done updating. So here is some advice; after the Zune updates and boots back to its home screen, it will then be safe to unplug the Zune from the PC.

I have put together a quick video overview of how the Xbox 360 uses the Zune to play all media on the device.

I am very impressed with the speed and quality of the Zune’s feature to share all media with an Xbox 360.

I can charge my Zune while it’s connected to the Xbox and picture and audio quality is top notch!

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