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Archos Jukebox Multimedia Reviewed

Posted by timothy on from the do-everything dept.

An anonymous reader points to Richard Menta's review of the Archos Jukebox Multimedia (mentioned in this earlier Slashdot posting). Here's a snippet from the review: "Right now my wife and I are watching an old episode of a TV show no longer broadcast in our area or available tape. How are we watching it? We are playing it off of a 9oz. MP3 player -- where I have digitally stored the episode -- hooked up to the small TV in our room and inconspicuously placed on top."

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  1. Wouldn't It Be Nice... by reallocate · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    ...if all the energy that goes into turning computers into expensive storage devices for throw-away pop rubbish, as well as all the energy that goes into those ego-boosting pyrhic fusilades against "the Man", went into creating some really original and useful software?

    I'm tired of all the pompous ranting by both sides of the argument. I don't care of Richard Stallman writes the bloody code himself, or if Microsoft makes me turn over a DNA sample. I don't want to turn my computer into a jukebox any more than I want to turn my TV into a computer.

    Both sides should shut up and get on with it.

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    1. Re:Wouldn't It Be Nice... by reallocate · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      I don't care what anyone does with their toys. I'm just annoyed that the focus of both the open and closed software industries seems to be on turning PC's into glorified boom boxes. It's not like the music or the programming is worth all the fuss in the first place.

      It's all a waste.

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