The most awaited firmware update for Zune HD player has just been released and available for download. Now Zune HD is upgraded to firmware version 4.5.
This firmware update brings lots of new features, tweaks, and changes to enhance your Zune experience. The new features includes, support for Marketplace on TV, added support for video codec, personalized recommendations, Smart DJ mix and much more.
Zune HD 4.5 Firmware – New Features
Below is the list of new features, changes, and tweaks added in this firmware release:
- Smart DJ mix
- Native AVI and XVID support
- Support Marketplace on TV-Out
- Picks on-device
- No ads before games
- Overall performance of device is increased
- Faster thumbnail loading and smoother animations
- You can now sort your favorites by date added or alphabetically
- It now warns you that deleting your browser history takes forever
- In artist view, you can now play all albums or songs, or add them to now playing
- In the marketplace, you can see more than 3 of an artist’s top songs
- Playlists now have a transparent background in Quickplay
- You can re-name favorites in the browser
- You can save screenshots of entire web pages to the device via the browser
- Fonts in the network viewer are now in the correct capitalization
- App exit transitions are now vaguely similar to iPhone OS
- Faster and better browser. Large web pages that would previously have crashed the browser now load easily, you can zoom in further on images without blurring, and tap-to-zoom works better
Zune HD 4.5 Firmware – How to Update
You can update your Zune HD to the latest firmware by following the step by step guide posted below:
- Connect your device with your computer
- Run Zune software on your PC
- Go to Settings and then click Update button
If you don’t have Zune software installed on your PC then you can download one from here.
[ Via ZuneBoards ]