Comments on: Archos Announces 405, 605, And TV Plus

By: FANTiM

FANTiM — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:31:51 +0000

Is the DVR station the only way it lets you send stuff to your TV? The apple has an A/V cable. Can the archos use similar technology?

By: Richard c parham

Richard c parham — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 05:31:16 +0000

need dvr download

By: Krys G

Krys G — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:37:59 +0000

For Joe: First units to hit retail will be the 605 WiFis in the U.S., likely in late August/early September.

For Alchemist: The 605 and 705 WiFi units (when plugged into the Gen 5 DVR Station) will work with an Electronic Programming Guide (EPG) that is downloaded either to your device or to the Archos TV Plus. It works seamlessly with your cable or satellite provider to allow you TiVo-like recording capabilities. The station doesn’t actually include a tuner, it works by IR blaster with your cable box to tell it to change the channel for recording, etc. Hope that helps.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:05:47 +0000

The French version of Archos site mentions Mid-July for shipment. But does anyone know when U.S.A. will be getting some?

By: Alchemist

Alchemist — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:34:35 +0000

I read that the new DVR station uses a program guide for selecting shows to record… im wondering if the station includes a tuner? or if you will have to use and external tuner/cable box line on the 4 series.

Anyone know?

By: Krys G

Krys G — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 22:20:38 +0000

The ARCHOS 605 WiFi will not ship with the DVR Station or the DVR adaptor – both of those will be separate accessories. The DVR Station will run about $100 (same as Gen 4.) With each player however, is that little piece referred to as the “saddle,” which allows you to plug the player into the DVR Station for TV recording and charging. The new groovy Qwerty remote will come with the DVR Station, and it will also ship with the ARCHOS TV Plus.

Also, the ARCHOS TV Plus will not have a built-in docking station for an ARCHOS player. It will act mostly as a stand-alone DVR box.

By: Ilya Kochanov

Ilya Kochanov — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 02:46:31 +0000

The press release said that all of them will come with the DVR station. It did not list the remote as a standard feature but I’m guesstimating the price will be around 20-30$. We will keep you updated.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 02:26:11 +0000

I don’t think that the DVR Station Gen5 is included, it’s only the DVR Station adapter which is, it’s like a plastic thing that makes the different sized Archos players fit in the DVR Station Gen5 if the user buys that one for 80$ retail price.

But I expect there could maybe be a simple 10$ plastic docking pod to just have the Archos 5G placed firmly into something when connecting to the usb-host connector of this TV+ product.

By: James Melton

James Melton — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:42:55 +0000

so the 605 will definately come with the dvr station in the box? Ive seen different reports saying otherwise, but it would be nice if they included it.

You also mentioned that the remote is optional.. any idea on price?

By: Ilya Kochanov

Ilya Kochanov — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:49:47 +0000

There probably won’t be a dock on top because the 405, 605, and 705 already come with one.

By: John Biggs

John Biggs — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:13:56 +0000

There wasn’t a dock on that device but it was still a prototype.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:57:50 +0000

By the way, thanks for providing the first pictures of the real Archos TV+ prototype. Is there a dock connector on top of the Archos TV+ to insert the Archos 605 WiFi or other model?

By: Charbax

Charbax — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:54:25 +0000

The new Archos will automatically download the new firmware updates over the WiFi connection, this means whatever $ amount Archos invests in adding requested features like Flac and Ogg support, the much higher percentage than ever before the amount of users will actually know there are new features available and have the new firmware installed.

Basically what I am saying is that thanks to the automatic firmware upgrade over WiFi, I think this means less “popular” features like Flac and Ogg will probably be added.

By: Ilya Kochanov

Ilya Kochanov — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:09:30 +0000

I don’t see why they wouldn’t support it in the future.

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:58:49 +0000

God, I just don’t understand why they won’t add support for FLAC/Ogg. I’d buy the 160GB one and pay the $20 for the plugin if they’d just add FLAC.

Ugh.