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 enlarge | Brand: Archos
Category: CE
List Price: $299.99
Buy New: $159.00
You Save: $140.99 (47%)
New (8) Used (1) Refurbished (1) from $155.00
Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 16587
Color: Grey
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Hard Drive Size: 30
Native Resolution: 3.5
Display Size: 3.5
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 4 x 1 x 3
MPN: 500868
Model: 500868
UPC: 690590508682
EAN: 0690590508682
ASIN: B000HAVWX2
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
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Very good pmp device. December 26, 2007
I owned a Zune 30 before i bought this. But the new updated software just killed the Zune. I had been looking at this Archos 404 for sometime now. This blows away any Zune or Ipod and its 4th generation. I forgot how great it is to have a device thats not linked to bad software or any software period. It does everything really easy and video and music look and sound great on it. You can buy the 2 extra plugins for it to give you more codec choice and thats only 40 dollars more,but trust me its worth it. The device will almost play anything. Drag and drop truely is a wonderful thing. I have put my Zune up for sale and i'm glad i finally got the 404.
 Major output power problem December 22, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am surprised that none of the reviews here has mentioned one truly serious problem with this device. This player suffers from a very low and insufficient output power.
Actually the output signal is so week that even my high power vehicle and home stereo systems can not get the music to loud enough levels ( I am using a direct audio-out cable). When used in sports this gets really irritating.
I have been pleased with the various video formats that it supports and I have been using it to watch DVD quality movies while on long flights. I was able to play WMV and AVI files out of the box while for the MPEG2 I did purchase the additional Cinema plug-in from ARCHOS Web site.
The following are additional cons:
*Cumbersome stone age menu and controls
*In video mode the battery dries out very quickly
*No power supply included
*The device crashes from time to time in the midst of playing a file. This does not happen very often but still it might be irritating
*For some reasons it would not play some AVI/DiVX/MPEG4 files. I can't explain this and I am unsure why would it play perfectly some files while fail with some other files.
In summary it is still probably one of the best players around due to the wide range of supported video file formats and outstanding screen quality.
A multi-functional mp3 player. December 4, 2007
I bought the Archos 404 to replace a Gmini402 whose screen broke, and I like the new 404 better in some ways, but worse in others. I had all of my files backed up as mp3's and was able to copy them directly into the Archos 404 and be up using them very quickly. The UI is about the same. I really like the larger color display, and being able to view video's is nice, but I got it mostly for music. I was able to record wav files into my Gmini402 directly, and they sounded pretty good, when I used an external mixer. Also, I did like the option of being able to copy my camera's pictures to the 404, which I couldn't do with the Gmini. The features were not documented well enough on the Archos 404, and indeed I can do the same, but discovered I needed to buy the DVR station to do most of the things I took for granted, and that's a pretty spendy add-on. By reading the info I could get my hands on, I decided to "cheap out" and buy the $27 Docking Adapter. With it, I could charge my unit from the wall, and use it to transfer files between my camera and the unit. It works fine. I also thought I could plug a audio Line in cable into my headphone jack (with an archos supplied addapter) to get the audio line-in signal into the unit, but after ordering the video/audio cable for $20 incl shipping, I discovered that didn't work, and I need to buy the Travel adapter for another $60 to get that, and only suspect it will work to record just the audio, since I can't find that documented anywhere. Maybe I should have gone with the DVR station, but I wasn't interested in using the unit as a DVR.
I tried to play some of the video's my little Casio camera took after loading them into the Archos 404, but discovered that the format wasn't compatible. I figured out how to use Windows Media player to convert the video files to the right format on my computer -so I'll still need to bring it with me on trips if I want to review them in the field, but then discovered I needed to order the $20 Cinema plug-in SW to do view them on my unit even after I converted them with Windows Media Player. I've thrown another $100 at the basic unit to get most of the functionality I "need", but I've resigned to not bother with anything better than recording from the internal microphone.
Archos 404 All Around Good PVP+MP3 Player. September 6, 2007
Well, I got my Archos 404 30GB about two weeks ago, and as of this point, I'm in love with this little device. It works well for videos and music, and photo's look great.
Pros:
Great looking video's and photo's.
Resilient LCD, I've used this device quite a lot, and so far not a single scratch.
Gapless playback.
Portable and Compact.
Tactile Buttons- I like these!
Cons:
Gets hot, gets hot rather fast.
Video Format can be hard to get right, but Total Video Converter works well.
AAC, have to buy plug-in for this.
Battery Life-Haven't gotten much for video on it....Ah well!
All in all, I think its a great product, but could use some refining! Other than that, I totally recommend this product!
Archos devices for do it for yoursleves September 1, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This device is perfect for those who really know how to use a computer, so on that note, I am sorry apple users. The company gives you the option to synchronize with Windows Media Player 10 or higher, but it is not essential. Just drag and drop files into the folders inside external drive icon.
It can play several file formats like mp3, wma, wmv, and whatever else. It can't play an astonishing number and you need plugins for a couple of encoded formats, which you can purchase from the company. DON'T WHANT TO?
Well then how bout you open the file in a media editing software and render it again in wmv, or wma and compressed it to a 75%(save some space)...It is not that hard People, one of the biggest complaints are that it doesn't play the podcast files you got or something like. Well if you are expecting to let the magic of technology do everything for you then you have a problem with this device, LEARN HOW TO DO SOMETHING YOURSELF!!!!!!
Not everything is Wonderful with this particular model. The 404 has a built in battery, like the ipod when it goes down you have to pay to repair the thing. TigerDirect did a poor job handling my order and return so after I returned it and upgraded with Amazon to a 604 Wifi, for 19 dollars more!!!!! and it has a replacesable battery, so if your battery breaks then buy another one, it is cheaper.
Nice things about the device:
Really powerful accesories, The optional port is a great thing to use for do it yourselves.PDF file reader (I got French and Italian comics, e-books and magazine articles in pdf format), if you want all that then again learn to use Adobe Acrobat people!!!! A built in microphone records straight into the hard drive, good for when I am on meetings or critiques.
Archos company: Archos has been making portable devices for 20 years, other than sony and some other giants there aren't a lot of people that can say that.
Again Learn to do some things yourself. This is something not only important for this but for everything else in your life.
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