Archos AV 700 100 GB Mobile Digital Video Recorder

Product Description

With the AV 700 Mobile DVR, you can take your VIDEOS, MUSIC, PICTURES and even GAMES on the go! Its Your Own Portable Theatre! Schedule and record up to 400 hours of your favorite TV shows, and movies directly from your TV, DVD player or cable box and experience it on the amazing 7 inches wide-screen color LCD. PlaysforSure? You Bet! Built-in support for Microsofts PlaysforSure lets you download the latest movies and the hottest music in a snap from your favorite online digital video and music stores. Features Portable Digital Video Recorder Record, download and listen up to 55,000 SONGS Supports MP3, WMA (including protected files) and WAV audio formats Record audio from any standard audio source or via built-in microphone Digital Photo Album Transfer, store and view up to 1,000,000 PHOTOS Transfer photos directly from your digital camera or PC using the USB host port Make slideshows and share photos on the large 7 LCD screen or display out to a TV Portable Hard Drive Large 100GB hard-drive capacities Transfer and store MEDIA and DATA files via high-speed USB 2.0 interface PC and Macintosh compatible Support for Microsoft PlaysforSure Purchase, download, subscribe or rent protected music and video content from Playsforsure compatible online stores Download and play 3D games Long-life Removable Battery, 5 hours of video, 12 hours of audio playback

Amazon.com Product Description

Your movies, your games, your music, your photos -- all in one little device. That's the Archos 500717 AV700 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.

The AV700 measures up nicely. See it in 3D, or watch a video presentation.

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

Enjoy thrilling gaming.

Record video directly to the device.

Organize and play your music library.

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 AV 700's rechargeable, removable battery, you'll get up to 30 hours of life for music and up to 4 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 7-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 AV 700 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 AV 700 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 AV 700 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 AV 700 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 AV 700 lets you purchase, download, subscribe to or rent protected video and music content from Microsoft PlaysForSure websites. Using the USB 2.0 interface, the AV 700 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
AV 700, 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.

Customer Reviews:

Quite complaining ..........2007-02-04

When reading these reviews, be careful. There are a lot of people out there complaing that this device wasn't able to replace an entire DVD collection, or that the video isn't high enough quality to play on a TV. Quit your complaining! This device is to be used to store and play video ON THE DEVICE.

The product description never states that you can use this device to replace your DVD library, or that you'll be able to hook it up in a movie theater and watch a movie on a 30x50-foot screen.

This device was made to do what it says ... to store and play back movies ON THE DEVICE.

Now, for the actual product. Yes, you can record video directly on the device. Granted, if you hook this thing up to a VHS player, or even a DVD player, you are actually encoding analog-quality material. Yes, I will repeat myself, even if you hook up a DVD player, it will not be digital quality. If you want true digital quality, encode your DVD with your computer, and transfer the file to the Archos! You'll get better quality video and audio without sacraficing hard drive space.

If you plan on hooking this thing up to a 31" television, expect loss of video quality! It's a no brainer! Same thing happens if you take a small .gif file off the internet and try to print an 11x14 out of it. It get's pixelated.

If you're looking for a good, solid and reliable device to replace your clunky "portable" DVD player, then this is the device for you. Granted, you have to encode your collection and load it on to the device before leaving home, but that's the price you pay for the convenience of not having to lug around your DVD library.

Is the interface as thought out as an iPod? Definitely not. But let's face it, Archos is NOT Apple. Apple does what it does very well. That's why the iPod is so popular.

Look, the bottom line is, this device does what it says it does. It stores video, music and photos, and plays them back. If your looking for something solely to replace your DVD library, buy an AppleTV. If your looking for something that plays music, then buy an iPod. If you want something to store photos, buy a friggin photo album. If you want to schedule and record TV, buy a DVD recorder or a Tivo.

This device does three main things (Movies, pictures, music), and it does so pretty decently. Don't buy this if your expectations are too high. If you are buying this in hopes to replace your iPod, tablet DVD player, digital picture frame, Tivo, microwave oven, 50" plasma TV, sister-in-law, etc., then you're setting yourself up for a huge disappointment.

Buy this device, toss on it a few movies, songs and family pictures, and take that vacation you've always wanted. At least this way you'll have some entertainment to pass the time during your trip.

Don't try to watch on a big screen!.......2007-01-06

I got rid of this after a few months of recording DVDs. I had hoped to replace my DVD with this digital storage, just like I did my CDs. But the resolution on the Archos is so poor (even when you set it to record on its highest resolution, which eats up considerably more storage space)that it broke down into pixels on my 27 inch LCD TV. It works great if all you intend to do is watch it on the Archos player or a tiny TV screen. I guess I should have expected this since the Archos only record thru analog. I also found the recording process very tedious. It is a simple matter of hooking it up to the DVD player and recording, but you have to wait through the 2 plus hour DVD to turn the unit off. You can set it to turn off automatically after a set amount of time, but that dead space at the end of the DVD recording while the machine waits to turn off also eats up your storage space. Overall, a great idea whose time has yet to come for replacing my DVD collection.

Perfectly fits my needs.......2006-11-10

I purchased this a couple of months ago and love it. It is well made and the attention to detail that went into everything from the products design to the little things such as giving you batteries for the included remote control really sum up the feel of the product. It is well done. The video compression on the fly for recording off a VCR works great. The ability to pop in movies that one rips off a DVD and then recompress and play works well.

It holds my music, my videos. It's a super fast hard drive.

I purchased it after seeing a friend who had another archos product with a smaller screen. This one is perfect. The screen is just the right size.

Thanks Archos! And good purchasing.

Tips:

-If your on Windows, get the newest copy of VirtualDub and the DivX codec to really make your movies fly. You can use it to recompress DVDs and captured video (if you have the time)

-If your on a Mac, get Handbrake

-If your going to be displaying video on a TV that your capturing, tweak the contrast and saturation levels as well as the audio levels while viewing the "TV out" of the Archos, that way you know what your getting!

Enjoy!

my precious archos........2006-11-06

I began to love this item for about 4 months..I researched up everyone else's reviews and such to check on faults and other cons about it. I found none...until One day my archos's battery died completely...I even tried another spare power cable then...it just never came back on...so I sent in my player to archos support not too long ago...and hopefully they've fixed all the problems with it...

Other than the battery problem...the player was the best electronical deveice I owned...I had over 100 videos on there and 3 thousand songs...it pretty much consumed my life...

No support for regular recordings.......2006-10-17

Great little machine except for the fact that it doesn't allow you to make daily or weekly recordings (think Simpsons every day).
It only support some hokey interface with Yahoo calendar.

Product Description

The beautifully designed yet affordable RAD-5 series analog LCD panel is perfect for replacing your old conventional CRT monitor. It is an "a-Si TFT LCD panel" with a 15.0 diagonal panel size. The RAD-5 features a maximum resolution of 1024 x 768 at 75Hz for outstanding brightness and incredible color. This LCD panel may also be taken off the stand and wall-mounted.

Amazon.com Product Description

This sleek and stylish LCD monitor with ergonomic telescoping neck brings both increased flexibility and impressive clarity to your desktop, all for a great low price. No matter where it lives, the monitor provides a full 15 inches of totally flat viewing. To further reduce clutter, the power and signal inputs are supplied through a single 15-pin cable.

A maximum noninterlaced resolution of 1,024 x 768 combines with a 0.297mm dot pitch and 16 million colors to bring you clear, accurate images, perfect for a wide variety of home and business applications. Additionally, a 300:1 contrast ratio and 250 cd/m of brightness help to bring the images onscreen vividly to life.

You can easily adjust settings using intuitive onscreen controls, including brightness, contrast, horizontal/vertical position, and color temperature. An anti-reflective screen coating helps to cut glare and reduce annoying eyestrain.

The Rad-5q is both TCO '99 and Energy Star compliant, with a power consumption rating of only 32 watts maximum. The manufacturer includes a three-year warranty on labor, one year on parts.

Product Description

High performance and high quality are paramount with JVC's flagship receiver. The RX-DP10VBK uses zero-interference technology to ensure high quality. This technology uses separate block construction to eliminate any interference, dual heat sinks and separate transformers for analog and digital circuits - all incorporated to remove any interference within the receiver. This receiver also takes advantage of the use of a C.C. Converter and a 24-bit/192-kHz P.E.M. D.D. D/A converter to reproduce any CD or DVD signal the way it was intended to be heard. The RX-DP10VBK also has multi-room/multi-source capabilities, which allow you to watch or listen to 2 different video or audio sources in 2 different rooms with the use of its IR/RF remote control. Finally, this THX Ultra-certified receiver has THX surround EX Decoding built in with 7 independent amplifiers making this exceptional receiver the cream of the crop.

Product Description

The 619GL-70NP/C has monitor and VGA input. The 619GL-70NP/C/T adds a touch screen base on monitor and piece. It can be connected to GPS system for navigation in your car.

Customer Reviews:

Dissatisfaction.......2007-06-14

Theoritically it is very good solution for car PC applications because of 2 composite video inputs and 1 VGA port; but just theoritically !

I bought one, installed it, had first experience and disappointed too much! Mixing colours, unsharp images, imaginary colour flames flying on the screen.. I couldn't get any improvements by adjusting screen settings.. I couldn't get any support from the seller, named VIVITEQ..

There is no a good documentation, no drivers for VGA usage,no support..

The only recommendation for Lilliput and VIVITEQ: Stay away from them !

lilliput 7" Car COMPUTER Tft Lcd Vga Touch Screen Headrest Monitor

Average customer rating:

lilliput 7" Car COMPUTER Tft Lcd Vga Touch Screen Headrest Monitor

Manufacturer: LILLIPUT
ProductGroup: CE

VGA input: 15 pin D-SUB analog RGB interface,
Headphone jack in front panel.
2 RCA video inputs, 1Audio Input
Speaker built-in,S-video input,
High-Brightness CCFL Backlight,4 adjustable backlight levels for daytime or night-time use

ASIN: B000OYJBB6

Product Description

Model Number: HR702-NP/C/T 7-Inch 15:9 Wide Screen Headrest/Stand-alone TFT-LCD Touchscreen VGA Monitor Headrest Kit and Stand included This 7" VGA Touchscreen by Lilliput is great for any automotive entertainment application. The slim panel VGA screen provides a sharp, bright output and displays clear, readable text. The touchscreen feature, along with the included stylus, allows easy navigation without the need for an external mouse or keyboard. The monitor can be installed in a headrest of a vehicle with the included headrest mounting panel. applications. Connect one of the additional Video Inputs to your rear view camera for high quality camera viewing, along with VGA connectivity for the ultimate in touch screen monitor mobility. FEATURES: 4-wire resistive Touchscreen : USB interface VGA input: 15 pin D-SUB analog RGB interface Automatic display adjustment Full-function IR remote control On Screen Display menu control (Multi-language), Headphone jack in front panel. 2 RCA video inputs, 1Audio Input, PAL/NTSC color system, S-video input, Speaker built-in, High-Brightness CCFL Backlight, 4 adjustable backlight levels for daytime or night-time use, Last power setting memory for choice available, Key Specification: Screen Size: Diagonal 7 ", Dot Resolution (RGB): 800(H) x480(V) = 1,152,000 (dots), Aspect Ratio: 15:9, Contrast: 250:1, LCD Brightness: 350cd/m2 , Viewing Angle: 45/60(U/D),65/65(L/R), Operating Voltage: DC 11-13V , Power Consumption: <10W, This monitor is great for mobile computing. Lilliputs high resolution monitors make them great for reading text and other pixel reliant applications. Connect one of the additional Video Inputs to your rear view camera for high quality camera viewing, along with VGA connectivity for the ultimate in touch screen monitor mobility.

Average customer rating:

Works well, but dies quickly

Olympus DT-1000 Dictation/Transcriber

Manufacturer: Olympus
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

Digital Voice Recorders | Portable Audio & Video | Audio & Video | Categories | Electronics
Voice Recorders | Olympus | Brands | Electronics Features | Electronics
Office Electronics | Refurbished & Used | Special Features | Electronics Features | Electronics
Digital Voice Recorders | Portable Audio & Video | Refurbished & Used | Special Features | Electronics Features | Electronics
Audio & Video | Refurbished & Used | Special Features | Electronics Features | Electronics
Voice Recorders | Olympus | Camera & Photo Brands | Camera & Photo Features | Electronics
Product Features:

Adjustable Tape Speed. Adjust the speed control from

¿15% to +30% for all levels of transcribing skills."

Quick erase feature automatically eliminates old messages to free up space.

Auto Backspace adjusts for trouble-free transcription.

Tape Counter allows you to locate important notes quickly so you can transcribe them more efficiently.

ASIN: B0001OHGYS
Release Date: 2004-03-01

Product Description

The Olympus DT1000 is designed to make office life easier. Dictating and transcribing is a pleasure with this device. The hand controller with built-in microphone and monitor speaker simplifies dictating and makes checking the recording in conference situations easy. The DT1000 is furthermore equipped with tape speed control to suit the transcriber's pace and a three-pedal foot switch with adjustable auto backspace function, making it ideal for transcription.

Customer Reviews:

Works well, but dies quickly.......2005-03-16

I have used the Olympus Pearlcorder T1000 for the past five years in my current position. It is easy to use with no problems or inconveniences (except perhaps the earpiece being uncomfortable and losing the little padded covers easily). The very unfortunate and serious problem with this transcriber is that is simply does not last. I would estimate that I use it for approximately five hours per week, and yet I have already gone through two of them. I am now looking to replace this one again since the fastest speed is barely understandable because it is dragging so badly. I would not be able to recommend this machine, and am now trying to find reviews on other possible replacements.

Average customer rating:
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Manufacturer: Kole Audio
ProductGroup: CE

Subwoofers | Speakers | Audio & Video | Categories | Electronics
Office Electronics | Refurbished & Used | Special Features | Electronics Features | Electronics
Product Features:

DIE-CAST ALUMINUM BASKET

1 PORT

NON-PRESSED PAPER CONE WITH ALUMINUM DUST CAP

LARGE ROLL TREATED FOAM SURROUND

WOVEN TINSEL LEADS

ASIN: B000EOQYF2

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Kingwin SAC-01 - Storage controller - SATA-150 - 133 MBps

Manufacturer: Kingwin
ProductGroup: CE

Host Bus Adaptors | Drives & Storage | Computer Add-Ons | Computers & Add-Ons | Categories | Electronics
ASIN: B000234PQ0

Product Description

Backed by in-depth experiences from market demand and customer responses, Kingwin develops new products with innovative ideas to keep up with the pace in the fast changing market. Kingwin's strong support from R&D department is committed to offer the most enhanced and cutting edge solutions for both industrial and personal computers.PRODUCT FEATURES:Standalone parallel ATA to serial ATA device bridge chip;Compliant with ATA specification;Compatible with Ultra ATA 133;Support ATAPI CD-ROM, CDRW, DVD, DVD+RW;Use converter by direct attach on device.

Product Description

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Customer Reviews:

Good try - Poor performance.......2002-09-27

I've tried this product on a P4 1.8GHz machine and it was incredibly slow. The quality of the image was poor.

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