Archos AV504 - 160 Gig Multimedia Player

Archos has made the Jaguar of portable video recorders, with its new Archos AV 500. With a sleek brushed-aluminum casing, a slim profile, and a very sharp 4-inch widescreen LCD, the AV 500 is definitely set to impress.

  Easy TV set up and control

After installing the TV docking pod in a one-time set-up operation, record directly television programs, movies and home videos directly from your TV, VCR, DVD player², cable box or satellite receiver (PAL & NTSC) ... and watch on the go! With the integrated scheduler you can program your recording. Schedule for a week or even a month.

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  Record directly from TV

Record directly television programs, movies and home videos directly from your TV, VCR, DVD player², cable box or satellite receiver (PAL & NTSC) ... and watch on the go! With the integrated scheduler you can program your recording schedule for the week or even the month. The AV 700 will digitally encode in real time all of your recordings.
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  Play Video

Play back your favourite programs on the 4" widescreen or on any external screen with a near DVD quality. Play Windows Media®, protected Windows Media®⁴ and MPEG-4⁶ video files. The AV 500 offers many functionalities such as slow motion, adjustable screen size, video editing or even a video bookmarking function.
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   Photo wallet
The AV 500 acts as a great digital photo companion accessory. Transfer up to one million photos¹ directly from your digital camera⁴ or from another mass storage device using the built-in USB host connection. Thanks to the high speed USB 2.0 connector, download pictures from your computer. Organize photos and watch them in slideshows on the AV 500 screen or any external display.
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  Connectivity
The AV 500 has a USB Host Port enabling you to copy, share, connect and transfer files directly from other powered mass storage devices. Additionally, the AV 500 is recognized as a mass storage drive on your PC or Mac enabling you to store any computer files using the high-speed USB 2.0 interface (backward USB 1.1 compatible at a lower speed).
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  Music Player
The AV 500 features a music player. Easily organize songs with the enhanced ARCLibrary and customize your view by artist, album, type of music, title, year, and play lists without having to use a computer. The AV 500 also offers an audio recording application to record (encoding in real time) in WAV (PCM or ADPCM), from almost all analog stereo sources. You can also use the stereo microphone if you want to record notes and consult them easily.
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  PC autosync
With the AV 500 you may purchase, download, subscribe to or rent protected video and music content from the Microsoft PlaysForSure™ websites. Using the high-speed USB 2.0 interface, the AV 500 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 the many compatible formats (MP3, WMA, WAV, protected WMA, MPEG-4⁶, WMV and protected Windows Media Video⁴).
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  Easily record TV shows and movies
The TV Docking Pod allows you to easily connect your AV 500 to your TV, VCR, DVD player², digital receiver (cable, satellite or DVB-T), or camcorder and directly record TV shows, home videos and movies. Simply connect the A/V line-in of the TV Pod to an A/V line-out of a TV or TV add-on device. As soon as the AV 500 is connected to the TV Pod and the "VideoCorder" icon is selected, the video signal appears automatically on the AV 500. To record, simply press "Start" and to stop, press the button with the cross placed on the right of your device. The recording will automatically be stored on the hard drive of the AV in the "Video" folder. Finally, you can also make video recordings using the S-Video line-in available on the TV Pod.
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  Enjoy movies and photos on TV
The TV Docking Pod also allows you to easily connect your AV 500 to your TV. Use the TV output feature to watch TV shows, home videos or movies and view photos, in near-DVD quality, on your TV.

 

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  Schedule recording & control TV add-on devices

Thanks to the Infrared emitter cable, the AV 500 can control a VCR or a digital receiver (cable, satellite or DVB-T) through the TV Pod. Simply stick the eyepiece to the infrared receiver device and select its brand name into your AV 500 system. Schedule your recording with your remote control and the AV 500 will automatically turn on the device, select the channel and record your TV show or movie directly onto the hard drive of the AV.
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(*) 1 GB = 1 billion bytes, formatted capacity is less.
(1) On average; based on 100 GB* hard drive; based on 3.5 mins/song & 64 kbits/s WMA (for better quality   
128 Kbit/s or more recommended), on 500 kbits/s MPEG-4 audio/video encoding and 1h30/movie
(for near DVD Quality 1500 Kbits/s encoding or more recommended), on JPEG, VGA.
(2) External video output disabled for Macrovision®-protected contents.
(3)Only cameras compatible with USB Mass Storage Class.
(4) Microsoft WMV9 Simple Profile up to 352x288@30f/s and 800 KBit/s ; supports WM DRM.
(6) MPEG-4 SP with B-Frames AVI (MPEG-4: ISO standard by Moving Picture Experts Group ; AVI: audio/video file container by Microsoft) up to 720x480@30f/s NTSC or 720x576@25f/s PAL; has not been certified by Div X, Inc., may not read all Div X® 4.0 & 5.0 files; does not read Div X® 3.11 & 6.0 files;
Div X® registered trade mark of Div XNetworks, Inc.