Where did Peter Quill get a Zune MP3 player in the deleted scene of Avengers Infinity War? It's a joke. The Sony Walkman that Star Lord has been using is obsolete Earth technology.
After the death of Yondu Udonta, his first officer, Kraglin Obfonteri, gave it to Peter Quill (Star-Lord) as a gift on behalf of the late Udonta, something that he considered using to bribe him back into the Ravagers. Kraglin and Quill are impressed that it can hold three-hundred songs.
Microsoft Zune, the long-dead digital music player, is enjoying a resurgence, of sorts. It's a featured player (get it?) in the new movie Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.
The Zune was later plugged into the Benatar and used by the Guardians to listen to music as they traveled throughout space. While responding to an Asgardian distress call, the Guardians listened to "The Rubberband Man" on the Zune.
The Zune comes in any capacity you want, as long as it's 30 gigabytes. According to Microsoft, 30GB can hold 7,500 songs, 25,000 digital photos or 100 hours of video.
While the Zune had some unique features, such as wireless music sharing between devices, these features weren't compelling enough to draw significant interest away from the iPod. Tony Scherba, President of the design studio Yeti LLC, mentioned that it was clear Microsoft did not do enough research or prototyping.
The Zune had failed to capture significant market share after five years against the Apple iPod, and a recent study by NPD Group indicated that the Zune did not make the list of the five best-selling portable music players in the U.S. The iPod has been more successful because of simplicity and had better ratings.
Marvel's Guardian of the Galaxy Vol. 3's sleeper star may be the all-but-forgotten Microsoft Zune portable music player and now there's a chance you could own a pristine, unopened 8GB Zune, though it's anyone's guess what you can do with it.
As Star-Lord, Peter Quill wears a suit that grants augmented strength and durability and the ability to travel through space. He uses an "Element Gun", a special meta-pistol capable of projecting one of the four elements (air, earth, fire and water).
3. In November 2006 Microsoft introduced the Zune, a digital music player designed to compete with Apple's iPod, which already had a five-year head start in the marketplace.
It is Peter Quill's favorite band, bearing the logo on his jacket, and the origin of his alias. Peter in his room, with Star-Lord Poster and logo patch on his jacket.
In this continuity, the name Star-Lord comes from a rock band of the same name. No such band really existed in the 1980s, but thanks to the developers, the band Star-Lord is not as fictitious as it seems.
In real life, Microsoft's Zune didn't receive much attention from consumers. The company began selling the MP3 player in 2006 to counter Apple's iPod. But by 2011, Microsoft announced it would stop developing new Zune hardware amid lagging sales and surging interest in smartphones.
Reviewers felt the Zune was better than the iPod in some respects, such as the user interface, the ability to exchange songs (which users called squirting.
So at the end of Guardians 2, Quill is gifted a Zune with more modern music but as far as we know, all the music in the franchise will still be 80s music.
Microsoft has brought back the Zune website, though it is no longer a page dedicated to the music player. Instead, the website has been relaunched with a focus on STEM research. The resurrection of Zune.net is also part of a promotion for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, which comes out in theaters this week.
The Microsoft Zune, with its intuitive interface and solid playback performance, will please most users. But lukewarm format support and the cool but limited Wi-Fi capability will have advanced users seeking more. The Zune is a very good start, though.
