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Archos Announces Portable Mediabox

Posted by timothy on from the tempting-toys dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "Archos has just announced the Jukebox Multimedia Portable Entertainment Center. Due this January, The unit is the same size and weight as the company's Jukebox 6000 MP3 portable, plays and records MPEG4 video, MP3 and WMA audio, has a color video screen built-in, and offers a FireWire interface as an option. What's most interesting about the player is an expansion connector that allows additional modules to be attached to the unit. One module lets the player take digital photographs and another allows the unit to record video from a TV. Neat concept that's more flexible than the Bokks AV component reported on Slashdot last week, but I think I would want more than the 10GB drive it uses for storage."

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  1. MPEG4 video? by Bonker · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Question for me is, are the different mpeg4 formats similiar enough that I can play my DiVX 3 and DiVX4 anime fansubs on it?

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  2. Hmm... by cascino · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm sure that the the features of this new model will attract many, but I'll personally stay away: I've had three bad experiences with Archos products.
    I purchased an Archos 6000 MP3 player from ThinkGeek about two months ago, and it arrived DOA. It simply would not turn on. I got my money back (TG was excellent as far as service is concerned, by the way), and used it to purchase an Archos HD-MP3 from a retailer in New York (who offered the better model at approximately the same price). I figured that the first time was probably a fluke, and besides - the better model offered the ability to record MP3's, something I could definitely use to for live music recording.
    Two more returns later, and I'm still waiting for my fourth Archos MP3 player. My experiences may be the exception to the rule, but I'd be wary of something like this until reliability figures come out.

  3. I really don't get it... by Daniel+Wood · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Why do people even want to bother with this kind of thing? A simple video in board and some PVR software on a Shuttle FV24 with an additional remote would be a much better solution.

    Perhaps its just that geeks prefer to hack things apart more than hacking them together?