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 enlarge | Brand: Archos
Category: CE
List Price: $299.99
Buy New: $159.00
You Save: $140.99 (47%)
New (4) Used (3) Refurbished (1) from $145.00
Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 18054
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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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.
Really 4.5 Stars August 9, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a great Multi-Media player. Huge screen for such a portable size. Easy to use. Decent sized hard drive lets me store all the music, video, as well as store a lot of work-related data. Can also read pdf's though this feature slow as each page loads seperatly. Also with accessories can record and playback to your tv. Very nice. The player is recognized as a hard drive so you can just drag and drop files in windows explorer. In other words you don't have to install fascist software that takes over all the media on your PC and controls what you do with it.
As has been said the internal speaker is terrible, but headphones or portalble speakers fix that. Also, to play .mov and a few other formats requires you to pay more for plugins. You should not have to pay more for your media player to play media!
Overall it is very good.
 RUN AWAY AS FAR AS YOU CAN FROM THIS PLAYER, PLEASE July 20, 2007
0 out of 16 found this review helpful
Don't buy it if you don't have time and energy to figure out how to turn it on right off the box. I got my today. After 3 hours of charging, it doesn't bother to be on. I am calling Archos while I type this review. There is no help from them at all ( "your call is important to us...." but I have been waiting for 68 minutes). Why they don't pick the damn phone to talk to me. That is suck!!! Never buy anything from Archos again. Piece of crab. Run away from it as far as you can, please. Give up on this player. Don't waste your time and money like me!!!!!!!!!!
Great little multimedia player June 12, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this player in a good deal on e-bay and have been using it for about 5 months now.
The size of the player is just enough to slide it into the shirt pocket. The screen in this player is big enough. Double the size of an iPod. The resolution is a bit low for such a big screen. It looks pixalated when watching the player very close to the eyes. But does not matter, the picture is clearer when at a distance. The interface and the two way buttons on the right are easy to use.
It has got a tiny speaker. The sound from this speaker is not loud enough but is good to hear in a silent room. The headphone provided with this unit is of very low quality. I'm using a Sony MDR-EX51LP headphone which sounds great. The equalizer in this unit is not very effective. It does not produce a sound that of a Creative, but the bass in this unit is good.
The unit is capable of playing only a few formats of video out from factory. Incase you want other video compatiblity, the plug-ins need to be purchased seperately and installed on the player. I have installed both the Podcast and Movie plug-ins in my unit. Even then the player does not support some video formats like older versions of WMV like verion 8 and below. It only supports WMV 9. This I feel is a major drawback since most of the videos I download form the internet is of WMV8 format and it is not supported by the player even with the plug-ins installed.
The unit comes with a USB cable to connect to the PC. The connector on the player side is a propretory connector. Other universal USB cables could not be used with the player. But, with the DVR Docking Station universal USB cable could be used.
One of the excellent feature of the player is its cabability to record video from any source and playback video. The DVR Docking Station (to be purchased seperately) is required inorder to make use of this feature. With the docking station, I'm able to record video from TV and charge the unit at the same time. It is also useful to playback the recorded video in TV through the video/audio out in the docking station. I'm not sure if the travel adapter could be used to record video from TV. But the DVR Docking Station does it all and it also comes with a remote control to operate the player. This unit also records sound through a tiny inbuilt microphone. The sound quality of the recorded audio is good.
The player comes with a leather sliding case which is decent. But you will need to take the player out of the case to watch video and adjust controls. The case does not have a window to expose the screen or the buttons on the player.
And also when I try to play a MOV video file from a DVD, there is no option to change the language. It just plays the audio in some language which is not default to the region of the DVD.
Overall this player is good for its video recording and playback capabilities. This is something that the iPods, Creative Zens and Others cannot do. Highly recommended if you are looking for this feature in a multimedia player.
 Archos 404 May 15, 2007
I love everything about this product, from ease of use to features it just rocks!!!! Well done Archos.
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