TV on zune… and zune on TV

i recorded some TV shows with my hauppauge WinTV HVR-1250 equipped PC. i synced them as well as a bunch of movies i ripped with DVDFab platinum and took my zune 80 to the coast. i bought a generic camcorder cable from radio shack and hooked the zune up to the TV in the condo we rented.

all when really well. i had to plug the red plug on the camcorder cable into the yellow socket on the TV, but other than that it worked perfectly. and it was a lot cheaper than the zune video kits.

i did notice one problem. the volume level on movies was very low, barely at conversation level. i fired up DVDFab and sure enough it had a volume adjustment. i set it to 250% and i am re-ripping my movie collection.

since i won’t be hooking the zune up to a TV often I am not going to purchase the video kit with remote. it is an attractive idea, but i can’t justify the cost.