North of the border we’ve gotten the shaft: Microsoft hasn’t released the Zune HD, nor the Zune pass service to Canada. The implications of the licensing issues, by the way, extend to the Xbox 360 where we Canucks have not been able to access the content library our brothers in America have been entitled to.
And now our motherland – home of our Queen – is getting Zune pass too. But, here in Canada, nada.
Heck, I even won a contest on CodeProject, the prize for which was a Zune HD, and they had to send me prize money instead because they couldn’t ship the device to Canada!
I want to make this clear
Not everyone in Canada is an Apple fanboi. Seriously.
We have three media players in my house. Two iThings and a Creative Labs MuVo. I actually prefer the MuVo. Sorry, five media players, because we have a laptop and a desktop PC. Oops, make that six, because we have an Xbox 360.
I want to have media that can play on all these devices. Seemlessly. I don’t want to have to burn CDs, rip them and then re-title all the tracks I have.
I buy my music. All of it. I pay for my movies. We even rent them on the Xbox 360. I have a Gold Xbox Live membership. I want my content on demand, I want a library that can grow and change as my preference does. I want to be able to listen to the music I want to listen to on the devices I want to listen to them on.
I want to listen to it on a Zune HD.
If the Zune subscription service was available in Canada I would be the first in line to sign up (Microsoft readers: you can contact me directly for my credit card number). I would even organize an iPod burning party and offer a free service to uninstall the pathetic version of iTunes that Apple has crapped onto the plates of PC users for all my friends and family.
Everyone is doing it
Netflix has announced that it is bringing its service to Canada. I, for one, hope this is a resounding success story for them and a solid earning opportunity. Why? Because I want Canada to lose the stigma of being a bunch of media pirates.
If there are successes with Netflix, hopefully this will open the door for Microsoft. While that would be great, I wish they didn’t need to wait.
We will pay our dues
I promise.
We believe in artists. We enjoy the content. Heck, we have a whole media company producing television and radio programming that is run by taxpayers just to prove it!
Because we believe and we enjoy we will also compensate. Just give us a chance. And a change!
Start with me!
So, Microsoft folks, I am offering my help and assistance. I will show all my friends. I will help my family’s iPods go ‘missing’ and encourage them to replace them with Zune HDs.
I will stand in front of the Apple kiosk in Walmart and show everyone who is stopping by for an iPod how cool the freekin’ Zune HD is. I will send emails out to old class mates and post about it on Facebook. I will Tweet about the awesomeness of the player.
Just send me one.
Heck, send me five and I’ll find homes for them…all in different markets…and I will help get the word out that there is more than one game in town.
I was this close to having one before getting the carpet pulled out from under me. So I ask, one more time, please make them available north of 49.
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