Richard Winn the Zune Insider and the musical genius behind the Madison and Pine website offers us this today:”So one of the best parts of my gig over here at Zune is to gather some of the content that is going to be preloaded on the device While the complete list is still coming together I can tell you that there’s video and audio and included in the list will be Subpop’s CSS. Also slated will be an offering from Hot Chip who are on Astralwerks here in the US.”

So that is the second time in the past two weeks Richard has mentioned the Zune will come with some sort of video features. Just 10 days ago on August 10th Richard posted the following: “Here’s what I know. I have seen the device running great quality video, actually I was asked to do a check on some video that had been encoded for me for the device.”

So contrary to most published reports it appears the Zune may in fact have video capabilities. That would make for an interesting holiday sales season as the video ipod is expected to be huuge hit this season. Maybe a little competition in the market with be nice for a change. Lets hope that Zune launches this Novemeber with video capabilities and kicks Apple butt.

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