Archos' AV 400 Nine-Ounce Personal Video Recorder, TV and More

Published on July 6, 2004 to Home Theater

Convergence has been on the lips of OEMs for years, but Archos' AV 400 lends credence to the concept. Here is a nine-ounce handheld device that offers more-than-just respectable digital recording and playback, TV capabilities, music-file playback and more. Read more

Archos' AV320 New Movies on the Move Multi-Media Box

Published on September 19, 2003 to Home Theater

Last year, Archos revolutionized the handheld world by offering the first hard disk video that was compatible with the MPEG-4 compression format. Today, Archos is back with an even more polished product that has a screen nearly 4 inches in size. Read more

Archos TV+ 250 GB

Published on March 19, 2008 to Networking

Apple TV isn’t the only way to get digital content: the Archos TV+ makes it easy to record TV for your PMP and stream music and video from your PC. It might be too simple, though—or too complicated. Read more

Archos Gmini XS 200: More Than Just Another Audio Player?

Published on December 30, 2004 to Home Theater

Chic, small and light with gigs and gigs of space for music files: that's how consumers want their hard-drive based audio players. Archos Gmini XS 200 packs 20 GB of capacity into a featherweight and tiny form factor. Read more

Archos PMA 400: Pushing the Handheld Envelope?

Published on April 28, 2005 to Home Theater

Archos' AV 400 already did it all: digital recording, TV capabilities, MP3 play and more. Now, for $300 more, you also get wireless, game console and PDA capabilities - which don't necessarily add up to justify the PMA 400's $799.95 price tag. Read more

Archos Jukebox Multimedia: The Video Walkman

Published on August 9, 2002 to Home Theater

Archos specializes in making portable peripherals, especially portable MP3 players with hard drives. With the Jukebox Multimedia, Archos leaps over yet another technological barrier - not only does this product read MP3 files, but it can read MPEG4-format videos as well! Read more

Archos & SanDisk Wireless Media Players

Published on October 19, 2007 to Home Theater

Does unplugging the USB cable untangle your music or tie you down even more? Read more

Archos AV700 PVP Gets Bigger (And Better?)

Published on September 2, 2005 to Home Theater

Archos wowed many with the launch of its AV400 portable video player (PVP), but its AV700 is even better. With a top-rate seven-inch color display, very long battery life so you don't have to recharge the device after each film and ease of use, Archos' latest is sure to please... that is, if you can afford it. Read more

The Archos Gmini 400 Portable Media Player: (Small) Size Matters

Published on October 21, 2004 to Home Theater

Listen to music. Watch movies. Play video games. All in a 20 GB portable media player that fits in the palm of your hand. Does Archos' Gmini 400 really manage to get it all right, in such a small package? Read more

Archos Gmini 220

Published on February 26, 2004 to Home Theater

How many features can an OEM pack into one device? At what point will multi-media player reverse engineering and miniaturization end? Archos' Gmini 220 crams 20 GB of storage capacity in a device half the size of competing removable drives. Nor does it skimp on features, which include MP3 player recording, removable storage and a portable photo album. Archos' Gmini 220 does just about everything, but it still has its faults. Read more

You Say You Want an Archos PVR Revolution?

Published on November 9, 2005 to Home Theater

Archos' latest AV 500 Mobile PVR allows you to record video from your TV, display images and listen to music - which certainly doesn't represent anything new compared to its predecessors. Instead, Archos attempts to bear down on the device's technical specs for improved video play and display capabilities. Read more