Archos Widescreen PMP 142
An anonymous reader writes "Archos has just announced their newest portable audio/video player the AV 700 Mobile DVR. The new unit has a 480x234 pixel widecreen display, a hub to record from TV and DVD, and offers a 100GB drive. The sucker is heavy though weighing in at over a pound. Cost is $799 for the 100GB model and $599 for the 40GB. MP3 Newswire also has Part 1 of its MP3 players for summer. Most interesting are Creative's new Neeon and a high end unit from Bose."
Bad Size... (Score:4, Insightful)
I want a better screen (Score:3, Insightful)
So, my opinion: nice toy; waste of money. --M
You know you're a geek when... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Bad Size... (Score:3, Insightful)
Yeah, would someone who has one of these portable video players explain what they're actually *for*?
I can see that a DVR that you can occasionally carry from one place to another might be nifty.
But I can't see it for, say, watching movies on the commute--anything that fits in my pocket is going to be too small to watch.
So why not buy a notebook? (Score:4, Insightful)
I guess the only good things about devices like this is that they're smaller and come pre-configured for their task.
am i missing something here? (Score:1, Insightful)
About the MP3 gear in second article (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:widescreen? (Score:2, Insightful)
From the article: (Score:3, Insightful)
As soon as I read that, I knew these people know nothing but marketing hype.
better than laptop (Score:2, Insightful)
The Archos Pma430 is 600$, just search it on froogle.
Archos has a deal with Echostar in US to market all their Gmini400, AV400 and AV700 in special packages, maybe rebranded as PocketDish. This is interesting because Echostar will probably give away this portable video player/recorder just for getting new customers over from the DirecTV/Tivo users.
The Archos players are approximately same price as an iPod anyways, so stop saying that it's better to have a laptop, then you should say that the iPod is the same price as a laptop, and then anyways all Archos devices are much cooler than iPods.
Specially the Pma430 which is a fully hackable Linux embarqued with touch-screen, wifi, usb-host and still has all the portable video recorder/player full DivX compatibillity (dvd-resolution simple profile + b-frames + vbr-mp3)