Goodnight sweet prince

I love Weekend At Bernies! Now I want to watch the movies again!

Blast! I don't have Netflix (yet)!

*sadface*

Oh yeah, Zune is gone... mumble, mumble...

zune music player is the best i've ever used.cant wait to get a nokia wp7 or a galaxy s2 windows phone.now if only ms would bring zune pass to ireland...

The Zune sucked anyways. Barely anyone had it. It was always the IPod and whatnot.

Always looked like an interesting player to me, though I never got one.

I had a Zune. It was OK. The Zune software was probably better than the device itself. I still like the look of it when compared to iTunes.

Zune has it's problems, but my Zune HD was still my favorite MP3 player. So small and sleek with an awesome screen. Won't lie though. I sold it when I got an Android Phone.

Real life weekend at bernies:
http://entertainment.verizon.com/news/read.php?id=18775113&ps=1020&lang=en

I loved my Zune HD. AVI format acceptance was also godly. It was a nicely designed device. And I still prefer the Zune player to iTunes. I have a Windows Phone now, so it's not very different, but I am a fan of the UI as well.

Does this mean I can just watch videos again on my xbox, without having to open that bullshit zune app that takes forever to load? You know, how it used to be.

That's too bad. I love my Zune HD, and I still maintain that the Zune Pass is the best deal you can get, short of piracy and online radio type services.

Hope it doesn't get discontinued.

I loved both my Zune 30GB (yeah, one of the originals) AND my 32GB Zune HD. They were both fantastic. Godspeed, Zune!

Is it weird I prefer to carry nearly my whole music/audiobook/standupcomedy library on my 80 gb zune rather than get an ipod touch?

I've still got (and use) one of the smaller flash based zunes (~16gb I think). It's a fantastic dedicated mp3/radio device and I really like the software that goes with it (especially since it streams to my 360 without any fuss), but without a revision so it could run the apps and shit that Windows Phone 7 would be getting, it was pretty clear its time was limited.

I'd say its too bad, but the success of the design and OS clearly lives on in WP7 and Windows8.

They terminated it far too Zune.

What the fuck is a Zune? Hahah...

And nothing of value was lost.

I use my Zune HD 32 Gig all the time. it's a nice piece of hardware with a great OS.

shame to see that once again, apple wins. Annoying.

Honestly didn't even know they were still making it. Shows what I know!

That one fat guy who got a Zune tattoo a while ago must feel terrible right now.

I read this as I connect mine to sync music.
An unfortunate end to a rather nice product.

I love their distribution model for songs, but they just cannot compete. I will cherish my Zune HD until it quits on me.

Still got my Zune, still use my Zune, waiting for the Best Buy's to now dump them out and will buy an extra or two if the original dies. Apple shmapple.

I still use my Zune120. It was the best iPod alternative, and the software has been superior it iTunes for years.

@Jim:
MS didn't feed us a line of shit. MS said they weren't terminating the Zune brand, which they aren't. The Zune marketplace isn't going anywhere. It's only the line of devices that's being effected.

Damn shame.
My Zune just died. I'll miss it :(

What ever happened to the Sony Walkman? Are they still making more new ones?

Steve Jobs is smiling down from the heavens.

"it's more like Microsoft has dropped the Weekend At Bernies charade and let its corpse fall flat on the ground, with its bones jutting out of pallid, dried flesh and its bruise-covered face staring lifelessly at a little girl who is now screaming as the concept of her own mortality forces its way into her innocent, vital mind. " this one paragraph sums up the reason why i love this glorious site.

What's a zune?

@PhilK3nS3bb3n

You still can do it the old fashioned way. Just go to your game library.

I like how all the "Zune is Dead" stories only use pictures of the original Zunes, and not the Zune HD, which is superior to any iPod.

"Looks like the company fed us a line of sh*t when it said this wouldn't happen."

Or it was misunderstood what they meant by that.. Way I read it when that linked article was still new, was that they were integrating Zune into the LIVE experience, not that so much that the Zune name was sticking around. Theres no real reason to keep around a dead brand name and device when you can assimilate it into one that's growing.

I'm going on the assumption that they're not doing away with Zune as a service, but instead renaming it something more LIVE friendly and continuing the access people with a Zune has through that, while also continuing to keep the whole music section on XBL as it is (or how it will be when that update comes up soon)

Or they changed their minds? It's not like that never happens in business.

Either way, this is at least the 3rd time over the last year or two that I've seen the words "Microsoft kills off Zune" around the net, so it was kind of getting old any way, it needed to finally be completely done. Nothing was really lost here this day.

Is the Zune Xbox live stuff cancled too?

I used to have a Zune gen. 2 8gb. Great player, best I've ever owned. Sadly the touch pad went out on it, making it all-but entirely useless.

I've never quite understood the hate the zune hd got. It's actually the best mp3 player i've ever used. Maybe if microsoft actually pushed the damn thing and sold it in more places it'd still be alive. whatever i'm going to use my zune until the day it dies. and then maybe get a 64gb one at dirt cheap prices.

...cool...Whatever, I never wanted a Zune anyway.

To the kids saying they don't care because Apple is more popular: You're narrow-minded and don't know what you're missing.

I'm tired of seeing things die just because the mainstream can't travel slightly outside of their comfort zone.

I've compared the Zune HD and iPod Touch side-by-side, and the Zune's sound quality trumps the iPod. Zunes have always been built to take a beating, and I personally prefer their UI both in-device and software.

With the only real iPod competitor dead, we're really in for a world of wallet pain, and Apple has no reason to make leaps and bounds in their product development.

For those asking, this just means they're killing off the MP3 player. The Zune services will continue on PC, XBox, and Windows phones.

I have to say I use Zune because I have a Windows phone, and I like it way more than iTunes. I now use it as my main music player on my PC.

My ZuneHD's warranty expires on the 15th of this month. I'm so fucked. Anyway, i guess this gives me more reasoning to buy another ipod touch.

They stated long ago that the dedicated Zune hardware device was going away, but the Zune service would continue. This is nothing new.

Even the article linked as "said this wouldn't happen" has no details about the hardware device.

Hey Microsoft, did you know there are some people in the world who don't want to sign up for a phone contract to listen to music?

I love my zune, had it since launch. Zune Pass converted me to legal downloading.

This is a travesty.

You are a poet, sir.

:c I love my Zune...

awe shiz did he just dis the zune...man he wants me to be all up in his grill.. ima be all up in his grill. Dissin the zune.. must be tripin..

My friend gave me an 80gb Zune for letting him crash on my couch for a semester. Funny thing is he had a broken iPod, but chose to stick with that instead of his Zune. I still use but wouldn't mind having an iPod touch.

Honestly, the original Zune was better than the iPod classic. Mostly because that click wheel is a USELESS, RETARDED PIECE OF SHIT.

my 30gb zune just started working after a year long coma...do'h

Let's always remember Zune for what it was: