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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. Picture Quality? by sssmashy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sounds great, but what kind of resolution are we talking about here? I wouldn't want to see fuzzy, pixellated video writ large on my TV screen, whether it comes from my VCR or a tiny MP3 player

    1. Re:Picture Quality? by MoonBuggy · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I'm assuming it's full DVD quality if that's what it was recorded off. Even though the inbuilt screen may not be great, the data is still there ready to send to a better screen, provided that the data was taken off the original media at whatever quality you are looking for.

  2. choice of program by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I don't know about you, but I really think it can be worth watching a quality television program with poor resolution.

    By the same token, most TV shows are at best a complete and utter waste of time even if they are shown crystal clear and at 1080p.

  3. No video in :-( by fetta · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If only it had a "video in" connection - it would be ideal for catching up on your TV watching while your flying cross-country. I suppose that aside from any legal issues, video encoding would be more intensive than the audio encoding that it does support.

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  4. 20 Gig, eh? by antisocial77 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have more mp3s than that as it is. I could get this as a juke box, but then what the hell am I supposed to do with my pr0n and episodes of Serial Experiments Lain?

    Oh, wait, my graphics card has TV out, and I can run audio from my PC to my stereo, and switch between the two. Nevermind.

  5. VCR's by asv108 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Right now the Music, Film and TV industries are trying to push a bill in congress that would make it illegal to use digital recorders the same way we use our VCRs. They have decided that the Supreme Court's Betamax ruling (that says taping you favorite TV shows for later viewing does not constitute copyright infringement) shouldn't apply to digital recorders.

    How the hell would the Supreme courts decision regarding taping TV shows not apply to digital recorders? Does the MPAA expect there to be Supreme Court case for every format that comes out? There Supreme court would spend 1/2 its time dealing with formats: (S-VHS, DAT, MPG, Quicktime, etc.) IANAL, but I would imagine the previous decision covers the act of recording a show for later personal use and is not related to what format or media it is recorded on.

  6. Usage. by Grendel+Drago · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, but if they had the DVD, why wouldn't they be watching that?

    However, if they'd had them on VHS tapes, because they'd (legally) taped them off reruns, then I for one would rather archive them on my local fileserver and load them onto the little beastie to play them back more conveniently.

    I mean, both are possible; the second one just seems more likely---and a really good use for these devices. Market! Market!

    --grendel drago

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    Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
  7. USB 1.1 by NeuroKoan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    USB 1.1
    20 GB
    .
    ..
    ...
    ....
    .....

    'nuff said.

    I've never used it, but it'd probably be okay if you set this thing to sync up before you went to sleep at night. Everything might finally get uploaded by the time you wake up!

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    "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation."
  8. Re:Wouldn't It Be Nice... by sgtron · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't want to turn my computer into a jukebox any more than I want to turn my TV into a computer.

    Ok, so don't. but don't bitch when other people do want to.

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    No todo lo que es oro brilla
  9. Re:Wouldn't It Be Nice... by fliplap · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What about the simpsons?