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| Brand: Archos
Category: CE
List Price: $249.99
Buy New: $182.90
You Save: $67.09 (27%)
New (16) Used (1) from $182.90
Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 16202
Color: grey
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Hard Drive Size: 80
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7
Dimensions (in): 10 x 1 x 6
MPN: 500970
Model: 500970
UPC: 690590509702
EAN: 0690590509702
ASIN: B000S6R93C
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Junk February 1, 2008
2 out of 13 found this review helpful
Pure straight from china piece of junk. Build quailty is poor. Loud hard drive. Useless owners guide. Next to nothing customer support, was on hold for over two hour's(no joke), with a message reapting "your call in important to us" Yeah real important.. You can tell they just want you to email them. There wasn't even a support number in the user guide for you to call, had to search it out on there site. Remote is usless, and am afraid if i ever drop it, it's going to brake into a million piece's. If your debating weather to get this or apple tv, go with apple. I have both right now.. Soon only apple.. archos is getting sent right back. Don't waste your time or money. They even have a easy to reach good sized reset button on the back side, you don't even need to use a ballpoint pen to press it, because you have to use the reset button so much. I hardly ever write review's but this one had it coming. -David
 Awesome Digital Media Player January 29, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a digital media player for your home entertainment center. It has the same operating system as the Archos portable video players (like the 605 wifi). It has all of the formats of AV inputs that you would need but you can only use one at a time which can be a pain if you want to switch. It can play a wide variety of file formats as well (just like the 605). You will need to buy two plugins in order to play MPEG2 with AC3 audio and H264 files. Yes it does play XVID/DIVX.
For me, the main selling point for this unit is the network connectablity. I plugged in an Ethernet cable (it has wifi as well, but that's slower) and it lets me browse the other computers on my network just like the explorer in windows. I can then play any media file I find videos, music, or pictures. You can also use the media sharing feature of Windows Media Player 11 and share network files that way as well. This lets me us this unit as my own on demand system. I can dump all the videos we want to watch over the next few months and have them in neatly organized folders. The kids can have their movies all in one place and watch all the SpongeBob they want. I plan to have all our Christmas movies dumped and on the unit so we don't have to hunt for them next year.
Archos TV can record form an external sources as well, but I already have a PVR for that, so I won't be using it. It uses an IR blaster type setup to control the cable/satellite box for recording. You get one year of free program guides when you register.
Notes:
- You will need to update to the latest firmware before you do anything else. I couldn't get the auto update to work the first time so you may have to download the firmware via a computer and move it over to the unit.
- I had trouble getting a thumb drive to work in the USB port. I think it pulled too much power. My Archos 504 hooked up no problem. I'm sure any powered USB drive will work fine.
- When you browse your network for the first time, it will take a long time for it to find other computers on the network. Just let it search. Mine took about 30 minutes. After that, it finds them instantly.
- Just like the 605 you have to bookmark videos manually in order to come back and resume were you left off. It will do just one video automatically. This will be lost when you play another video though. I requested an auto-bookmark feature but who knows if they will look into it.
- You can copy files to the unit through the network connection, or by using a USB cable. The unit shows up on your computer as a Drive.
- It can play VOB files from DVDs you own. If you hook up the SPDIF cable, you will get Dolby Digital AC3 sound.
- This is a new unit and they are working on fixing bugs as they are found. It's not going to be perfect for a little while. It is very cool though.
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