Ryan Rea over at Neowin.net posted an interview with his insider at Microsoft. He is calling him TK for now. The following is some interesting tid-bits from the interview and my comments on them…

RR: What are you most looking forward to with the ZHD & Zune 4.0?
TK: Improved battery life, multi-touch and movies.

Better battery life is a cool thing that I’m looking forward to, hopefully it will effect older hardware as well. Multi-touch is obviously only coming to the Zune HD. Movies now this has been a rumor but it should be good to finally have them.

RR: I’m assuming that it would include HD content, Because the HD is going be a awesome portable Video player with it having HDMI out and such.
TK: Yes sir

I now assume by that, that we will see 720P videos in the marketplace…

RR: What are the sizes of The Zune HD?
TK: 16GB and 32GB, Microsoft is considering adding a 64GB Zune later on in the model year

As rumored earlier today…

RR: When is Microsoft planning to ship the Zune HD?
TK: Early September

Can we just get a confirmation on September 8th already?

RR: How much is Zune HD projected to cost?
TK: The prices are not set in stone yet, but the 16GB will be somewhere in the range of $249 -$280

If they can hit that price with 16GB then I can imagine the 32GfB will be around $290-$330.

[Full Interview]