Archos AV380 Video Recorder

Asmoday · Feb 5, 2004, 03:09 PM

"About five years ago, the MP3 format started getting quite popular. You could pretty much compress a 650MB audio CD into a tenth of its size while keeping the quality almost as good as the original. This brought about the craze of portable MP3 players which are still selling quite well. A little over a couple of years back, DivX started gaining popularity and did the same for video that MP3 did for audio. This time around you could compress a 4.7GB DVD into a 700MB file while keeping a very respectable quality. It was just a matter of time before someone makes a portable DivX player and that time is now. The company that makes such a device is called Archos and they’ve been selling their AV3xx Video Recorder with 20GB, 40GB and now 80GB hard drives. Today, we take a look at their AV380- the one with highest capacity 80GB drive."

Source : Tbreak.com

Feb 5, 2004, 03:09 PM	#1
Asmoday Demonic Join Date: May 2002 Location: In the cold, dark north... Posts: 5,198 Rep Power: 92 System Specs	Archos AV380 Video Recorder "About five years ago, the MP3 format started getting quite popular. You could pretty much compress a 650MB audio CD into a tenth of its size while keeping the quality almost as good as the original. This brought about the craze of portable MP3 players which are still selling quite well. A little over a couple of years back, DivX started gaining popularity and did the same for video that MP3 did for audio. This time around you could compress a 4.7GB DVD into a 700MB file while keeping a very respectable quality. It was just a matter of time before someone makes a portable DivX player and that time is now. The company that makes such a device is called Archos and they’ve been selling their AV3xx Video Recorder with 20GB, 40GB and now 80GB hard drives. Today, we take a look at their AV380- the one with highest capacity 80GB drive." Source : Tbreak.com