Archos AV 500 Review

The Archos AV 500 is a truly amazing personal media player. It not only has a 30GB variant, but also a 100GB one (if you buy this one at Advanced MP3 Players they'll give you a free rechargable battery for it (worth £49.99 whilst sticks last). If you decide to buy the 100BG version you get about 400 hours of video, 50,000 songs or about 1 million photos - simply staggering. With the new Apple iPod coming into play, any new personal media player will have to be pretty damn good - its good that the Archos AV 500, in our opinion is much better. Some may say the 4 inch screen isn't large enough, but when you take into account its weight and functionality, we don't see a problem. The Archos AV 500 also has a quick USB2.0o connectivity, which is standard now. Something that the AV 500 has that the iPod doesn't is the PlayForSure (from Microsoft) support. The bit we really love is the ability to hook it up to the net and Yahoo!'s TVcalendarr so you can record in advance :D. Because Archos are responsible people, you can only play back Macrovision digital-rightsmanagedd video on its own display - you can't view these on other devices. Overview: If you want a personal media player, this should be the one.