I can no longer sign into Zune 4 -

They've bashed it up - it bans me for physically being outside the US (regardless of the account having US points and address etc)! If you change regional settings it works. When set to UK it just greys out your login photo and refuses. On previous versions it worked fine.. So the question is, if I buy a ZuneHD from you for use in Europe, is the experience crippled even more than I had hoped?

Sorry to hear about this. We can't yet comment on what might be different with the Zune HD as we will need to try them when they arrive.

However, any restrictions should only be dictated by the Zune Software not the player. So, if you have it working now then we should be ok.

We will post in full once we have it tested.

To clarify I mean the software.. Sign in. onlly works of regional settings are set to us which is lame !!

Dear Zune Things:

I live in Austria - which is naturally outside the U.S. - and so I thought the holy grail called Zune Software 4.0 would be unreachable for me (at least signing in).

This is exactly what you have to to as a non- U.S. citizen to (nearly) fully use the Zune Software 4.0:

Register an Windows Live Email account based in the U.S.:
(xxxx@live.com or xxxx@hotmail.com), just pretend to live in some State and fill in a postal code of a city based in this state. Done.

Set the location of your computer to the U.S.
That's easy, just go to the Control Panel of Your PC and somewhere (depends wheter you use XP, Vista or Windows 7) under an option called "Time, Language an Region" or something like this you can "Change county or region". And just set the option to U.S.
Done.

No you can join the Zune Community and sign in the Zune Softwae 4.0, you can even look at the marketplace and download the free apps for the Zune HD.

As far as I know, you can't buy anything, but with this method described here, you can do the most important things.

Enjoy!