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April 05, 2007
Archos AV 704 Wifi First Looks
I got one. It was just too cool not to snap up.
With all the features, screen size and the really tough time I'm having ripping dvd's for timeshifting, this just made sense.
With the Cinema plugin, I can view MPG2 files and/or VOB files from DVD without the whole out of sync audio/video due to the copy protection.
Hey, I am actually renting them. I just want to timeshift them. ;-)
So many features to talk about.
First and foremost this thing feels like a lil brick with it's aluminum housing.
It feels solid and very well built.
The WiFi is a bit sluggish, but it works well enough.
I can populate files by samba access and copying them to the archos, or by setting the wifi into file server mode and pushing them from my other boxes.
How cool is that.
The embedded web browser is slick too.
But most important, video looks great.
Audio is good enough. In comparson, the audio in the cowon a2 is better. I think the jetaudio and effects possible truly make that my favorite audio player.
Yet this is good enough for audio, and excellent for video. (although the cowon is no slouch there).
More to come later, I just wanted to get some pics up for y'all to drool over. ;-)
http://www.cotrone.com/rob/gallery/archos704wifi
Posted by Me on April 5, 2007 11:59 PM
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