Store up to 30 movies, 300,000 photos, or 15,000 songs with the 30GB hard drive. Enjoy the high quality video on a 4.3″ color screen. Easily to navigate menus. Turn your ARCHOS 604 into a DVR: Record TV from a TV, VCR, DVD Player and cable box or satellite reciever on your ARCHOS with the optional DVR Station.
Review by CNET
Archos’s 604 (link to PDF) represents the latest in an esteemed line of gadgets from the king of portable video players (PVPs, or PMPs). Superb construction and design, an all-encompassing feature list, and solid performance should make this übergadget a highly coveted item, particularly because of its shockingly low base price of $350.
The caveats? The 604 is limited to 30GB of storage (though the thicker 504 goes all the way up to 160GB), and you’ll need to buy extra accessory kits to get the most out of the player (namely, using the device as an audio/video recorder). Throw in patchy out-of-the-box compatibility with some video formats and you’ve got reason to pause. But overall, we believe the 604, with its amazing screen, makes a worthy successor to the AV500.
Review by PC Magazine
The Archos 604 ($349.99 direct) is an update of the company’s impressive AV 500, which handily won PC Magazine’s Editors’ Choice award when it came out. The new version has a slightly bigger screen and different button layout, but it retains many of the features that made me love its predecessor. One big difference, though, is that you get a lot less in the box this time around, since many of the accessories are now optional extras—including the all-important docking station, which is required for recording video from analog sources. Even the USB Host feature, for connecting cameras and other USB devices, now requires an optional adapter. The 604 is available only in a 30GB hard drive configuration, whereas its predecessor came in 30GB and 100GB versions. There’s also an Archos 604 Wi-Fi ($449.99), which adds a touch-screen and 802.11g wireless capabilities for Web browsing, e-mail, and content downloading.
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