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New little toy from Archos AV700

Postby birddog114 on Mon Aug 01, 2005 8:03 am

Archos AV700 portable DVR
http://www.archosaustralia.com.au/.
I'm impressed by this portable DVR, perhaps my next lust of the 100Gb version :wink:
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Postby petal666 on Mon Aug 01, 2005 9:41 am

Archos make some nice gear. That looks better than most of the options for portable photo storage :) No mention of screen resolution though. I might have to dig further.
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Postby birddog114 on Mon Aug 01, 2005 9:45 am

Problems of this unit is: It doesn't come with the card reader :(
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Postby Raydar on Mon Aug 01, 2005 10:09 am

Very interesting little toy indead!!!! :shock:

Thanks for that Birdy!!!

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Postby stubbsy on Mon Aug 01, 2005 11:41 am

Technical specs are here

Screen is 7” LCD 480x234 pixels, 262 000 colours. From the specs my rough maths make it 3.5" high. My equally rough maths make that 53.5 pixels per inch.

By compasrison the Epson P-2000 is 3.8 inch LCD 640x480 pixels, 262,144 colours with a resolution of 212 pixels per inch
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Re: New little toy from Archos AV700

Postby stubbsy on Mon Aug 01, 2005 5:31 pm

Birddog114 wrote:Archos AV700 portable DVR
http://www.archosaustralia.com.au/.
I'm impressed by this portable DVR, perhaps my next lust of the 100Gb version :wink:

But I suspect the P-2000 is still better. Why are you lusting this new toy? Where is it the P-2000 lets you down?
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Re: New little toy from Archos AV700

Postby Nnnnsic on Mon Aug 01, 2005 5:52 pm

stubbsy wrote:Where is it the P-2000 lets you down?


It has pretty poor video support and lacks the DVR function.
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Re: New little toy from Archos AV700

Postby birddog114 on Mon Aug 01, 2005 5:53 pm

stubbsy wrote:
Birddog114 wrote:Archos AV700 portable DVR
http://www.archosaustralia.com.au/.
I'm impressed by this portable DVR, perhaps my next lust of the 100Gb version :wink:

But I suspect the P-2000 is still better. Why are you lusting this new toy? Where is it the P-2000 lets you down?


Yes, the P-2000 is lot better and I still keep it.
The AV700 is just another toy for my kids can copy movies and bring it up to the Bay.
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Postby redline on Mon Aug 01, 2005 6:09 pm

kinda reminds me of a product vivitar released a few years back
Vivitar dvr 390h

http://www.livingroom.org.au/photolog/r ... r_390h.php
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