Re: Zune HD or iPod?

Have you considered one of these?

http://www.sandisk.com/products/sansa-music-and-video-players/sandisk-sansa-clip-mp3-players.aspx

<http://www.sandisk.com/products/sansa-music-and-video-players/sandisk-sansa-clip-mp3-players.aspx>The
sound quality is fantastic, and they are inexpensive and durable. My
twelve-year-old son and eleven-year-old daughter each have one, and even
they haven't managed to break them.


--Stuart

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Mike <[email protected]> wrote:

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> My Zune was fantastic, but it is now broken.  My brother's broke as well.
>  We owned them for 2 or 3 years I think, so I'm disappointed in that aspect.
>  I'll admit I was quite rough with mine and it bounced off a few rocks and
> tasted a bit of salt water in its day.  But is the iPod more reliable?
>
> I mostly listen to podcasts and the radio.  Everything I like always seems
> to be free, so I never have a need to buy or subscribe to music or
> literature or anything else.  So I'm focusing on reliability.
>
> Being able to jump ahead 30 seconds and speed up playback is also
> important, we all know that certain .NET podcasts can be a long hard slog at
> normal speed.  (Not the ones made by people on this list!)
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
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