And the winner is…

Last weekend’s Gears of War 2 Zune 120 contest is over, and after conferring with the winner, I can report that Chad Smith of Vancouver, British Columbia has won. I’ll be sending Chad the Zune device this week and, if last weekend was any indication, he will continue owning me at Gears 2 mulitiplayer. If I remember correctly, Chad was in the last GOW2 game I played over the weekend, right before midnight Sunday night, and he outscored me handily. Granted, it’s not hard.  :)

Anyway, congrats to Chad and thanks to everyone who participated.

Discuss this Article 5

Dipsh t Admin
on Nov 12, 2008
So Wae, was it you that won? ;)
lotsamystuff
on Nov 12, 2008
I think it was "Helper Cat".
tayme
on Nov 12, 2008
Dang Canadians!!! ;-) --tayme
Waethorn
on Nov 12, 2008
"So Wae, was it you that won?" I don't have an XBOX 360, sorry. I have a PS3, which, aside from Playstation Home (beta), I use to store my CD and photo collections on. I upgraded the hard drive in it from the paltry 40GB, to a 250GB. I don't use it for much else. Gaming is still primarily a PC experience for me. I won a Zune 80 at the Intel Channel Conference instead. It has premium headphones too. I was surprised, because I kinda wanted to replace an aging Creative Zen Jukebox 3 20GB player that I still use. I've run out of space on it long ago though. I haven't done much with it (the Zune), except activate it, and listen to a few of the preloaded songs. There's not quite 2 GB of content preloaded on it. Some good. Some not. Just been too busy lately. It's been really good for sales at the store. Pre-Christmas warm-up I suppose. Video is nice, but not my cup of tea, except for the few podcasts I watch. I don't plan on ripping my DVD collection to it at all as I see it as a practise in futility. I was planning on re-ripping my CD collection to a more manageable format though. Currently it sits as a 30+GB library at 100% quality VBR MP3 for the most part (a few albums are 100% quality VBR WMA). I was thinking about using WMA, since the Zune software rips in that format. I'm not a big fan of MP3 anymore when WMA offers better quality. The PS3 supports WMA, but I'm not sure of which subformats it supports. I know the Zune device supports AAC format too, but the software only does MP3 and WMA soooo....
Waethorn
on Nov 12, 2008
"Dang Canadians!!!" I wouldn't mind getting a Zune Pass, but we still don't have Zune Marketplace up here, so quitcherbitchin! Also ;)

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