Amazon is offering “Release Date Delivery” when you pre-order Microsoft’s Zune HD. You have to be an Amazon Prime member for it to be free though, otherwise you have to pony up $5.58 to get it exactly on September 15th.

It seems like Microsoft is looking to re-use its first generation Zune’s slide-up box packaging style for the Zune HD. If this is to be believed, the 720p output-capable device supposedly paraded itself at various Best Buy locations for demonstration/preview.

[via crazyphoneguy @ Twitpic]

Looking to pre-order the Microsoft Zune HD but not quite convinced to do so yet? Sure, it has the Tegra chip from NVIDIA but is that enough to persuade you? NVIDIA has a PDF document listing Best Buy locations across the United States which will have the Zune HD for demonstration/preview.

[via Engadget]

Could the Microsoft Zune HD indeed be the iPod killer this time? Microsoft’s next generation portable media player is equipped with a NVIDIA Tegra processor chip which allows it to output HD video, among other things.

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Microsoft’s Zune HD can now be pre-ordered via Amazon, Best Buy, WalMart or the Microsoft Store. The 16GB fetches for $219.99 while 32GB goes for $289.99. The Zune HD will be available at retail locations starting September 15, 2009.

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Microsoft’s Zune looked like a brick, looked like a brick yet again and still looks like a brick. The leaked image above, sourced from Engadget, reportedly is the Zune HD.

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