If you’re like many new Zune owners, you are excited about the idea of carrying your movie collection along with you wherever you go. The idea of being able to watch a movie while you’re sitting in the waiting room, riding on a bus or just hanging around the house is pretty sweet.
The problem is that it’s not so easy to transfer your existing movie collection over to your Zune when you first get it. Microsoft didn’t include any software with the Zune to rip your movies onto your Zune. If you want to watch something on your Zune when you first get it, you better either have a mpeg-4 file on your computer (some video cameras and camera phones will save videos in this format) or you will need to download a video from the Zune Marketplace (good luck!) or some other Zune Video website. Not exactly what you had in mind when you bought your new Video Zune, huh? (more…)