Archos AV500 30 GB Multimedia Player and DVR

Archos AV500 30 GB Multimedia Player and DVR

Product Description
Amazon.com Product Description
Your movies, your games, your music, your photos -- all in one little device. That's the Archos AV500 100 GB Mobile Digital Media Player. This exciting media companion offers direct TV recording and the best of home cinema, gaming, digital music and more. Now you can bring all your entertainment with you wherever you roam. The 100 GB model, which is less than an inch thick, lets you store up to 400 hours of video, 250 movies, 55,000 songs or 1,000,000 photos. Using the AV500's rechargeable, removable battery, you'll get up to 15 hours of life for music and up to 4.5 hours for video playback on the built-in LCD.

Record directly from TV, Watch at Your Leisure
Used in conjunction with the included TV docking pod, you can record television programs, movies and home videos directly from your TV, VCR, DVD player, cable box or satellite receiver. Then watch them on the go whenever the notion strikes you. Plus, with the integrated scheduler you can program your recording schedule a week to a month ahead of time. Play back your favorite program on the 4-inch widescreen or on any external screen in near-DVD quality. The unit plays DivX, Windows Media, protected Windows Media and MPEG-4 video files. You'll also have excellent control over your viewing experience with features such as slow motion, adjustable screen size, video editing, and a video bookmarking function.

Get the Picture
Want to take your snapshots with you? The AV500 is a great digital photo companion. Transfer thousands of photos directly from your digital camera, or another mass storage device using the built-in USB connection. You can also transfer from a computer using the AV 700's high-speed USB 2.0 interface. Then, organize your photos and watch them in slide shows on the unit's screen or on any external display.

Play Anywhere
Because the AV500 supports the popular Mophun gaming engine, it's designed to integrate with the Archos Web site for purchasing and downloading games. You can also connect an optional mini game pad to kick your games up a notch.

Listen Up
The AV500 features Archos' newly-designed music player application. Now you can easily organize your songs and customize your view by artist, album, type of music, title, year, and play lists without having to use a computer. The AV 700 also offers an audio recording application that records in high-quality WAV format from almost all analog stereo sources. You can also use the stereo microphone if you want to record notes, presentations and lectures.

Connect It
The AV500 has a USB 2.0 port that enables you to copy, share, connect and transfer files directly from other powered mass storage devices. The unit is also recognized as a mass storage drive on your PC or Mac, giving you the ability to transfer any computer file using the high-speed USB 2.0 interface.

PC Auto-sync
The AV500 lets you purchase, download, subscribe to or rent protected video and music content from Microsoft PlaysForSure websites. Using the USB 2.0 interface, the AV500 will easily auto-synchronize this content with Windows Media Player 10 each time you connect it to your PC, or convert your Windows Media Player 10 library content to one of many compatible formats (MP3, WMA, WAV, protected WMA, MPEG-4, WMV and protected Windows Media Video).

What's in the Box
AV500, TV docking pod, remote control (with batteries), audio/video cables, USB 2.0 cable, USB host adapter, AC adapter and charger, stereo headphones, protective case, user guide.

Product Description:
Store up to 130 hours of video, up to 85 movies, up to 15000 songs or up to 300000 photos on the 30 GB capacity. Play MPEG-4 files with stereo sound, TV Recorded Shows, Movies and Home videos on the built in display. The 4 inch LCD display has 262000 colors and 480x272 pixels. Or display onto a TV or external screen. Transfer photos direct from any digital camera or PC using the USB host port. View Jpeg or BMP formats. Record music from an analog source in stereo for WAV (PCM & ADPCM) format.

Package includes: AV 500, USB 2.0 cable, USB host adapter, AC adapter & charger, stereo headphones, protective case, user guide and TV Cradle, remote control (with batteries), audio & video cables

Built-in Speaker

USB 2.0 high-speed device interface, compatible USB 1.1, PC & Mac

Removable Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery

Battery life: Up to 15 hours for music, Up to 4.5 hours for video on built-in LCD

External: AC charger adapter

System Requirements: PC with Windows ME, or 2000, and USB 2.0 port, Macintosh G3 with MAC OS v10.2.4 or higher, Macintosh G3 and USB 2.0 port

Dimensions: approx. 7.6 x 12.4 x 1.8 cm, 3 x 4.9 x 0.7 inch

Weight: 255 grams, 8.99 ounces

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Archos AV500 30 GB Multimedia Player and DVR

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Archos AV500 30GB Multimedia Player and DVR

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Product Features:

Record television programs, movies and home videos and watch them on 4-inch LCD whenever, wherever

Plays and stores up to 400 hours of video, 250 movies, 55,000 songs or 1,000,000 photos

Compatible with MP3, WMA, WAV, protected WMA, MPEG-4, WMV and protected Windows Media Video

Supports the Mophun mobile gaming platform; USB 2.0 port for fast file transfers

Up to 15 hours of battery life for music and up to 4.5 hours for video playback on the built-in LCD

ASIN: B000B912Q6

Product Description

Store up to 130 hours of video, up to 85 movies, up to 15000 songs or up to 300000 photos on the 30 GB capacity. Play MPEG-4 files with stereo sound, TV Recorded Shows, Movies and Home videos on the built in display. The 4 inch LCD display has 262000 colors and 480x272 pixels. Or display onto a TV or external screen. Transfer photos direct from any digital camera or PC using the USB host port. View Jpeg or BMP formats. Record music from an analog source in stereo for WAV (PCM & ADPCM) format. External - AC charger adapter System Requirements - PC with Windows ME, or 2000, and USB 2.0 port, Macintosh G3 with MAC OS v10.2.4 or higher, Macintosh G3 and USB 2.0 port Dimensions - approx. 7.6 x 12.4 x 1.8 cm, 3 x 4.9 x 0.7 inch Weight - 255 grams, 8.99 ounces *Also available at our Macys Heard Square location

Amazon.com Product Description

Your movies, your games, your music, your photos -- all in one little device. That's the Archos AV500 30 GB Mobile Digital Media Player. This exciting media companion offers direct TV recording and the best of home cinema, gaming, digital music and more. Now you can bring all your entertainment with you wherever you roam. This 30 GB model, which is less than an inch thick, lets you store up to 130 hours of video, 85 movies, 15,000 songs or 300,000 photos. Using the AV500's rechargeable, removable battery, you'll get up to 15 hours of life for music and up to 4.5 hours for video playback on the built-in LCD.

The AV500 measures up nicely.

A world of entertainment in your hands. And the included TV Pod docking station makes connectivity a breeze.

Record video directly to the device.

Organize and play your music library.

Personal Video Player
Used in conjunction with the included TV docking pod, you can record television programs, movies and home videos directly from your TV, VCR, DVD player, cable box or satellite receiver. Then watch them on the go whenever the notion strikes you. Plus, with the integrated scheduler you can program your recording schedule a week to a month ahead of time. Play back your favorite program on the 4-inch widescreen or on any external screen in near-DVD quality. The unit plays DivX, Windows Media, protected Windows Media, and MPEG-4 video files. You'll also have excellent control over your viewing experience with features such as slow motion, adjustable screen size, video editing, and a video bookmarking function.

Photo Viewer
The AV500 is a great digital photo companion. Transfer thousands of photos directly from your digital camera, or another mass storage device using the built-in USB connection. You can also transfer from a computer using the AV 500's high-speed USB 2.0 interface. Then, organize your photos and watch them in slide shows on the unit's screen or on any external display.

Music Player
The AV500 features Archos' newly-designed music player application. Now you can easily organize your songs and customize your view by artist, album, type of music, title, year, and play lists without having to use a computer. The AV500 also offers an audio recording application that records in high-quality WAV format from almost all analog stereo sources. You can also use the stereo microphone if you want to record notes, presentations and lectures.

Connectivity
The player has a USB 2.0 port that enables you to copy, share, connect and transfer files directly from other powered mass storage devices. The unit is also recognized as a mass storage drive on your PC or Mac, giving you the ability to transfer any computer file using the high-speed USB 2.0 interface.

PlaysForSure
The AV500 lets you purchase, download, subscribe to or rent protected video and music content from Microsoft PlaysForSure websites. The Archos AV500 works with many online subscription and pay-per-download music services such as Yahoo! Music Unlimited and Napster To Go. The PlaysForSure designation ensures compatibility with Windows Media Player 10 and Windows XP. Using the USB 2.0 interface, the AV500 will easily auto-synchronize this content with Windows Media Player 10 each time you connect it to your PC, or convert your Windows Media Player 10 library content to one of many compatible formats (MP3, WMA, WAV, protected WMA, MPEG -4, WMV and protected Windows Media Video).

Play Games Anywhere
Because the AV500 supports the popular Mophun gaming engine, it's designed to integrate with the Archos Web site for purchasing and downloading games. You can also connect an optional mini game pad to kick your games up a notch.

Customer Reviews:

Archos AV500 30 GB Multimedia Player and DVR.......2007-04-11

A very beautiful and inteligently built mp3 and pvp. very sharp picture and colors are really great to enjoy but.........but bad and discouraging thing about it comes with a full sized remote without markings, u keep guessing which button does what function and the other thing is its disk type docking station and with that u can not stand straight your DVR on yr table or on top of yr TV or any other surface and in that case your remote wont take any command either and thirdly connecting cables for docking station to TV,VCR,DVD are so short u may need to put your docking station very close to out signals of TV,VCR,DVD or whatever to make it work and lastly battery life is 8 to 10 hours at the most and not as claimed 17 hours. If u buy it buy additional battery for sure...........I returned the item after 10 days, what will u do i wont comment.......very plus of it is quick and easy vedio or audio recording from any source.... and despite of all shortcomings I give it 4 star rating hoping that manufacturer will remove them which is very posssible to make it loveable of every one.

DON'T BUY AN ARCHOS!!!.......2007-03-18

I purchased this product as a Christmas present for my daughter. Within a month after Christmas the battery failed to charge. I contacted Archos and had to return the unit and not just the battery. I was also informed that I would probably not get the same unit back. I received a different unit that contained the previous owners recordings. This took approximately 2.5 weeks. Ten days after receiving the refurbished unit back, the hard drive failed. I contacted customer support and requested that I receive a new unit and not a refurbished one. I was informed that that was probably not possible. I find this pretty poor support for a product with a price tag as high as this. Because I am beyond the 30 day return period from Amazon I have no choice but to work with Archos. I would not recommend this product or any Archos product for that matter and would warn future customers to purchase a different brand.

Archos AV500 30GB Multimedia Player and DVR.......2007-01-23

I couldn't be more pleased with this item. I have downloaded several thousand songs from DVD to Computer to Archos. The process went very smoothly. The instructions in the booklet are a little lacking and it could be improved some but the product itself is excellent'

Excellent product.......2007-01-22

I bought this 2 days ago and it does everything I wanted. Record TV, playback onto TV, transfer files from my Digital cam, and rename, move, and delete files on the go, etc.. I love the fact that you can connect it to your computer as a hard drive and just drag and drop files. I hated having to sync everything on iTunes. But if you like syncing, you can with Windows Media Player. You can also "browse" your music files and go through the folders as you have them created (if you did create them) or search by Artist, Album, Genre, etc. I personally like the folders much much better.

Pictures/videos look fantastic with it's 4" screen and sound quality is great as well (I havn't yet bought great headphones to really test it). The built-in speakers are nice and clear, but fairly week, so you'll need a quiet room if you intend on using it.

I did my research and this one appeared best for it's price (you can find it for $300).

They have a problem.......2007-01-18

I have purchased archos DVRs before and was looking forward to using the AV500. It is true that it has a very nice screen, and it plays the file types that I need. However, within a few days of purchase, the battery stopped taking a charge. After some fiddling, I reluctantly returned it to Archos. It came back after a few weeks, and I was very surprised to see that the content that I had on it was still there! What kind of fundamental repair was this, I wondered. In fact, the device exhibited exactly the same behavior as it had when I sent it out--literally nothing was changed. I reluctantly returned it again, and have been waiting six weeks for a fix. Their customer service is abysmal and keeps changing their story (next week, Christmas delay, etc.) I have now attempted to get a refund, and have been told by Amazon that my period for refund has expired. I have had the device for about two days in total and it hasn't worked, period. I am attempting to get a refund from archos and this really is not acceptable for a device this costly. Don't buy this.

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