Reminder: Last Day of our Zune HD Giveaway Contest!
Posted 11/13/09 at 12:15:00 PM by Norman Chan
Need a new portable media player? We're giving away a Zune HD 16GB (Black), courtesy of Nvidia. This kick-ass video and music player is powered by Nvidia's Tegra APX 2600 system-on-a-chip, a sports a vibrant 3.3" OLED screen. This Zune also comes with a custom engraving on the back. But enough of the technical babble. We're going to make it super easy for you to enter the contest, so hit the jump to get the full scoop on getting your name in the random drawing. In fact, you may already be entered!

To enter, all you have to do is become a fan of Maximum PC on our facebook page (www.facebook.com/maximumpc). That's it. No fancy essays, sob stories, or embarrassing photos required. And yes, even Canadians are elligible. So what are you waiting for? Read the rules below and join our facebook page today!

Fullspecs on the prize:
* Brand Name: Zune
* Model: EHD-00001
* Digital Storage Capacity: 16 GB
* Color: Black
* Battery Average Life: 33 Hours
* Hardware Platform: PC
* Width: 2.1 inches
* Depth: 0.4 inches
* Weight: 2.6 Ounces
* Radio Bands Supported: FM
MAXIMUM PC ZUNE HD CONTEST
OFFICIAL RULES
NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.
1. SPONSOR: This promotion (the “Contest”) is sponsored by Maximum PC magazine and Future US, Inc. (“Sponsors”), subject to the following terms and conditions.
2. ELIGIBILITY: Contest open to legal residents of the United States (excluding residents of Rhode Island and Puerto Rico) and legal residents of Canada, excluding residents of Quebec. Void where prohibited by law. Entrants must be at least 18 years of age. Employees of Sponsors, their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliated companies, and agents, and foregoing employees’ household or immediate family members (defined as parent, spouse, child, sibling, or grandparent) are NOT eligible to enter Contest. By their submission of entry, participants warrant they are legally entitled and authorized to make such submission, either on their own behalf, or as to information submitted upon the express authorization of another on whose behalf the information is submitted.
3. TIMING: Contest begins at 12:01 a.m. PDT on November 2nd, 2009 and continues until 11:59 p.m. PDT on November 13th, 2009. Incomplete or late entries will not be accepted.
HOW TO ENTER: Email us at contests@maximumpc.com, putting “Zune HD Contest” in the subject line and including your complete name, address, daytime telephone number, city, state, and zip code in the body or join our Facebook page at http://facebook.com/maximumpc. There is a limit of one entry per eligible participant. Entries become the property of the Sponsors and will not be acknowledged or returned.
5. PRIZES AND ODDS: One Grand Prize will be awarded. The Grand Prize will be a Zune HD 16 GB Video MP3 Player (Black) and a total retail value of $219.99
Odds of winning shall be determined by the number of eligible entries received.
Prizes are nontransferable and must be accepted as awarded. Winner will be responsible for all taxes (federal, state, and local) and all expenses not listed herein related to acceptance and use of any prize. Prize will be awarded if properly claimed. Limit one prize per household.
6. DRAWING: Winners will be selected by random drawing from all valid eligible entries received. Drawing will be held on or about November 15th, 2009. Drawing will be conducted by Sponsors, whose decisions on all matters related to the Contest shall be final and binding and within their sole discretion. Canadian entrants selected in any drawing will be required to correctly answer, without assistance of any kind, whether mechanical or otherwise, a time-limited mathematical skill-testing question to be administered by mail or by telephone. Winning is contingent upon compliance with all terms and conditions set forth in these official rules; any entry drawn or any potential winner identified thereby found at any time to fail to comply with these official rules will be held invalid and ineligible for award.
NOTIFICATION: Winner will be notified by phone or email within one week following the random drawing. Winner so notified must within ten (10) days of notice of award, complete, execute and return the provided Affidavit, Waiver, Release and Indemnity Agreement including, where lawful, a Publicity Release (plus any additional documents required at the discretion of Sponsors). Failure to comply with the requirements of this paragraph (or the return of any prize or prize notification as non-deliverable) may result in disqualification and in the forfeiture of any right to a prize, in which case prize will be awarded to an alternate by random drawing. A list of winners will be available for six months after the award of prizes by sending a self addressed envelope with sufficient prepaid postage to:
MAXIMUM PC
ZUNE HD CONTEST
4000 Shoreline Court, Suite 400
South San Francisco, CA 94080
Residents of the state of Vermont and Canada may omit return postage.
8. PRIVACY POLICY: Submissions are subject to standard privacy policy, the terms of which can be found at http://www.futureus.com/privacy.php, which terms and conditions entrants accept and agree to by submission of entries pursuant to these official rules.
9. RELEASE: by participating in the Contest and/or accepting a prize, a participant/winner agrees to defend, release and hold harmless the Sponsors and their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, divisions, advertising and promotion agencies, and the foregoing companies’ officers, directors, shareholders, employees, representatives and agents (collectively “Releasees”) from and against any actions, claims and/or liability for injury, loss or damage of any kind, (including the violation or infringement of any proprietary or personal right of any individual or entity) resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from participation in the Contest, and/or the use, acceptance, or possession of a Contest prize, and/or participation in a Contest prize-related activity, including any action, claim or liability arising from the unauthorized submission of any information.
By participating in the Contest and/or accepting a prize, a participant/winner consents to and gives the Sponsors the right to use, publish, and display a winner’s (and where applicable a participant’s) name, city and state, and prize awarded, for the purpose of advertising, trade, publicity and promotional purposes in any media now known or hereafter discovered, worldwide, and on the Web, without review, notification or approval, all without additional consideration, unless prohibited by law.
10. CONDITIONS: Participants agree that by participating they release the Releasees from any liability in connection with: a) Entries that are ineligible as a result of being lost, late, illegible, damaged, incomplete, stolen, postage due, or misdirected: b) Any typographical or other human or technical errors in the offer or administration of the Contest, including but not limited to errors in advertising, these official rules, the selection and announcement of a winner(s), or the distribution/awarding of a prize(s); c) Any omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay, misdirection, damage, injury, technical malfunctions or traffic congestion on the Internet/telephone network, or at any website, or any combination thereof.
Sponsors reserve the right to modify these rules for clarification purposes without materially affecting the term and conditions of the Contest. In the event that the Contest is infected by a computer virus/worm, or is not capable of running or being executed as planned (as a result of but not limited to an error, omission, defect, delay, misdirection, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, action of entrants, or technical failure) or any other cause which in the sole opinion of Sponsors corrupts or affects the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of the Contest, Sponsors reserve the right in their sole discretion to disqualify any suspect entry or entrant and to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest. In the event of such cancellation, termination, modification or suspension, notice thereof will be posted at the entry website(s) mentioned above, and winner(s) will be determined solely by Sponsors in a random drawing from among all eligible non-suspect and/or non-disqualified entries. In such event, Releasees shall have no liability to any participant who is disqualified due to such an action. Failure to enforce any term of these official rules shall not constitute a waiver of that provision.
11. LAW: This Contest is governed by the laws of the United States and is subject to all federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Void where prohibited or restricted. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation, and enforceability of these Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of entrants or Sponsor in connection with any drawing or award, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with the laws of, the State of California, without regard to conflict of law principles. Any cause of action by you with respect to the offer (and/or any information, products or services related thereto) must be instituted within one (1) year after the cause of action arose or be forever waived and barred. All actions shall be subject to the limitations set forth in above. The language in these official rules shall be interpreted as in accordance with its fair meaning and not strictly for or against either party. All legal proceedings arising out of or in connection with the offer of these official rules shall be brought solely in San Mateo County, California. You expressly submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of said courts and consent to extraterritorial service of process.
I am SOFA KING in on this
Submitted by Spider Monkey on Fri, 11/13/2009 - 11:13am
You have been fan'ned!!
Zune HD Contest
Submitted by jazboy on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 2:52pm
I just love Zune HD contest after hearing its review that its HD awesome. I hope i can win this. Maximumpc.com is awesome site. Thanks for allowing us to participate in this giveaway.
I have entered through email.
Can we submit a sob story anyway?
Submitted by captrespect on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 6:47am
Can we submit a sob story anyway?
Just post your story here in
Submitted by Troublesome4u on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 2:08pm
Just post your story here in the comment section.
I know I already asked, but
Submitted by lunchbox73 on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 6:19am
I know I already asked, but can I win please? Thanks.
OMG OMG OMG I was this!!
Submitted by Samanya on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 5:12am
OMG OMG OMG I want this!!
Ya
Submitted by tomastaz on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 8:00pm
Same man, I chuckle nonstop. Canadians have to do that foralmost every contest out there, sucks to be them sometimes.
All your base are belong to us!
Zune software killed my laptop's video card
Submitted by Scatmanbrandt on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 8:38pm
I just wanna start out by saying I love the new Zune HD but after what happened when I tried using the new
software kinda ruined it for me. First off, there are reports of the software having graphical issues and are
fixed by disabling graphic acceleration. Even afer doing that though, it fried my video card. Zune tech support
was no help and said it had to do with XP, called Microsoft, they said to call Zune. Now I'm out $500 because
the only place to get a "new" card is eBay, I'm just gonna go with the best my computer can handle, Nvidia
7950 gtx. If you get a zune HD, make sure you have an old computer or get one off craigslist for like $10,
that way when it gets fried, you're only out $10 at most.
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My Rig
Alienware M7700
3.4GHZ P4 Proc
Nvidia 6800Go (fried)
4GB Ram
2 Sata 300 Toshiba Drives in RAID0
Total of 160GB
20 Minute Battery Life
2 Compleated Work Units for F@H
Since 9/25/09
I suspect there is something
Submitted by Tekzel on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 6:41am
I suspect there is something else going on, I can't even imagine a way the Zune software could damage your video card. While I generally avoid absolutes, I am tempted to actually say that it's impossible. Either way, I have the Zune software installed on my computer and my video card still works fine.
I agree. I don't think the
Submitted by lunchbox73 on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 6:21am
I agree. I don't think the Zune software is responsible for your video card failure.
Only thing I can think of
Submitted by Scatmanbrandt on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 10:22am
The only I can think of it happening was the video card somehow overheated to the point of melting itself (why it decided to while running Zune and not in Bioshock, I'll never know). however improbable, not entirely impossible. What happened is while it was running, the interface started to grey out and become unresponsive. I restarted the computer and tried running it again with the same results, only this time, the rest of the computer had graphic issues. restarted again with artifacting in bios and in os. Everytime I try to install a graphics driver, the computer will only boot in safe mode. If you want to see whats wrong, check out http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/photo.php?pid=149607&id=1806148575
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My Rig
Alienware M7700
3.4GHZ P4 Proc
Nvidia 6800Go (fried)
4GB Ram
2 Sata 300 Toshiba Drives in RAID0
Total of 160GB
20 Minute Battery Life
2 Compleated since 9/25/09
If only it was a 32GB, then
Submitted by gendoikari1 on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 6:20pm
If only it was a 32GB, then I wouldn't have had to ask my cousin in California very nicely to get one and ship it up here.
Everytime I read that
Submitted by DBsantos77 on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 5:58pm
Everytime I read that Canadians need to answer a question I chuckle, that's so unusual lol.
-Santos
I don't normally get very
Submitted by WFUJay on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 5:08pm
I don't normally get very excited about mp3 players, but that's pretty sexy.
i'm already a fan so i'm
Submitted by nekollx on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 4:09pm
i'm already a fan so i'm enter automagically?
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Five teenagers, one alien ghost, a robot, and the fate of the world.
My Friend Tigger... err Tegra
Submitted by Valerie on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 4:02pm
AWWRIGHT! The nVidia Tegra thing is totally changes perspective with Zune for me...
Well, you got me to be a
Submitted by quickone on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 3:29pm
Well, you got me to be a fan on facebook with this, I want one of those terriably.. Bonus points for getting a MPC tattoo or being a folder?
~~The difference between insanity and genius is merely succes~~
Can I win please? Thanks!
Submitted by lunchbox73 on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 3:28pm
Can I win please? Thanks!
You don't need Facebook...
Submitted by Techrocket9 on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 2:59pm
Before everyone has a cow over not having facebook, please read the following:
HOW TO ENTER: Email us at contests@maximumpc.com, putting “Zune HD
Contest” in the subject line and including your complete name, address,
daytime telephone number, city, state, and zip code in the body or join
our Facebook page at http://facebook.com/maximumpc.
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An army of pacifists can be defeated by one man with the will to fight.
O.o
Submitted by Lincolnton on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 2:48pm
That is one sexy zune. Digging that nvidia engraving.
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