Everybody’s buzzing about the leaked Zune HD artwork that engadget got the scoop on, and are speculating (both directly and indirectly) as to what may be in it, but few are actually pointing out the original source, a now-removed page of a designer who has quite the history of brilliant art. So what’s a guy like me to do when I need to see the proof myself – without the engadget logo? Simple, do a Google search…
As I just mentioned, the page has been pulled, but the images haven’t, as you will see if you look at the cached page. All of the images are displayed on that specific cache, except for the most famous image (strangely, but being image #7 it wasn’t hard to figure out this direct link). Otherwise, here are the original images that I’ve downloaded: (And as a disclaimer: these images are the property of their respected owners and do not apply to my blog’s CC license.)
But really, the cache data (and the direct link to the images) show that they were uploaded in March and were available for quite some time before someone caught on to it…
Oh, and there is mention that the screen is 1.85:1, versus the typical “wide screen” format of 16:9, where people have counted the pixels (I’ve done it myself) to determine the ratio. The differences between the 2 ratios are pretty small to the untrained eye, but trust me: counting pixels on such a small image can yield pretty erratic results, and the likelihood that the artwork has photoshopped the screen image means a decrease in accuracy. Personally, I’d prefer 16:9 over 1.85:1 for the sake of watching HDTV on it. And using the argument that it’d be designed to watch movies (especially ones downloaded from Netflix) with it’s 1.85:1 ratio screen is a bit moot, since modern movies typically use a ratio of 2.35:1. No matter which ratio, some content will always have bars, whether it’s letterboxed or pillerboxed…
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