Archos 604 WiFi Digital Media Player

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A great device with a few minor flaws.

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jun 13, 2007 | 1 out of 1 found this Archos 604 WiFi review helpful

Pros: Great style ans substance. Gorgeous touch screen, intuitive menu layout.

Cons: No Ad-hoc mode(yet perhaps?), a little slow calling up functions. The stylus doesn't slide into the unit. Pricey add-ons and software plugins.

I've had several Archos PVP's in the past, and this is the one I was waiting for! A very nicely machined piece, it feels substantial and has a nice heft to it. With the wi-fi option I now have a device other than a cumbersome laptop(PSP's stink at web browsing btw) to browse wirelessly with. Extremely responive touch functions, with crisp movements. Perfect for even the biggest of fingers. The screen is gorgeous, albeit it has a layer on it for the touch functions. Seems this layer makes the screen a little less clear. Get the plain 604 already! Great menu layout, very easy to understand and browse immediately out of the box. Stellar video and audio output, I've tried my custom made Shure earphones with this and the sound is spectacular. Nano who, iPod what? Okay, now the room for improvement stuff. No ad-hoc mode! What? There go a few of my favorite hotspots around town. Battery life is pretty bad, make sure you grab a spare one if you're traveling. No FM. Processor at times feels overwhelmed even with the simplest of tasks. The styli do not slide into the main unit. I think I'd lose them more because of this. No dedicated wall charger. Whats with all the pricey add-ons guys? $100. just for the DVR funcionality!? My previous units came with that right out of the box. You even have to pay for a few software plugins that should be FREE. Lucky I'm an honest guy otherwise I'd find a crack somewhere for the software. Did I mention pricey all around? Outfiiting this thing to my liking has cost me almost $700. Now if Archos can address these issues(like a FREE patch for ad-hoc mode support for instance)they will definately have a winner. I must say I can't wait to try out the helmet camcorder, I'll be going rock climbing in Tennessee in a few weeks and I want to show my 90 year old grandma what it's like! Cool..

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This Is The Future Of PMP

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jan 31, 2007 | 1 out of 1 found this Archos 604 WiFi review helpful

Pros: Records Video From ANY Source

Cons: None

If your eyes get sore from looking at that teeny-weeny iPod screen this is the "Cadillac" of media players, and it records too!

Also supports WMP11 including album art, MP4, Divx, Xvid, Avi, WMV, and the list goes on.

I'm building a huge FREE movie collection from my DishNet receiver and I may need to buy another external hard drive soon, hahahaha.

Sorry, Itunes suckers, ya gotta pay 3.99 per view!!! Hahahahahahaha

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jan 10, 2007

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Archos 604 WiFi rating

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Dec 31, 2006

Pros: touch screen

Cons: NO AV wire, need plug ins, Need DV station, Por audio, no dual display

Archos 604 WiFi

I have compared many other similar products/features but Archos 604 WiFi it is simply worthless product – as compared to many other similar products. It should not cost more than $200 as such!

I am giving lowest ratings for these reasons/problems:


1. A product of $450 and they are so poor that they can’t even supply AV cable? I will cost less than 50 cents for a company if get it from china. iPod cable is available for just $ 3 online. One can even make/modify cable, please see below:
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2. I could not play any movies that were stored in iMac. Mp4 or even AVI movies did not work! Unit displayed a message that we need to buy plug software in from Archos website. It is another trick/gimmicks to cheat people and force them to buy accessories and software. I converted MPEG4 movie to AVI from QuickTime software but it did not play in Archos unit.

3. I was told by a tech person (pre-sale) that this unit gives dual display - on TV as well as in the handheld unit. But once button to TV out was pressed, screen became blank! A major defect! How can I forward or reverse or stop or pause? I have to switch back to unit and then again back to TV. In comparison, once out put to TV is selected in iPod and Vision M (from Creative) these units shows interface on unit though but you can/t see movie in unit itself- but nothing in Archos 604! I wanted to use this product so that I can show movie/clips to audience (by using big screen projector) and be able to watch (at the same time) what is being displayed in handheld unit. But this unit is just hopeless about such regards.

4. I got it from Sams Club and even the sales person was little confused once he read that unit description that it comes with DVR saddle. We did not know what saddle is but we assumed that it is a bundle and comes with a DVR station. However it turned out that a saddle is a strip/piece of plastic junk, which costs no more than few pennies for Archos to manufacture in bulk!

5. Even 20 years old camcorders have technology of using AV cable which can serve both purposes- out to TV and as well as for recording in camcorder Ecen mini DV camcorders have AV wire which can record and play too. Why Archos did not use same technology? Obviously they wanted to make fool of us- to make a DVR station! It is just anther way of rip off!

6. Most of the times, unit failed and did not work- regarding touch screen features. I had to calibrate several times –built in feature to repair it so much hidden that it was tough to find a way to repair it. It is almost last feature on screen. Even after calibrations, same problems persisted.

7. Audio is very very poor quality (compare with Samsung, creative or ipod nano) . Whether I use flat, rock, live it does not make much difference!

Eventually I returned unit back to Sams Club.

Good machine.

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Dec 12, 2006 | 12 out of 13 found this Archos 604 WiFi review helpful

Pros: WiFi, touch screeen, can play aac files

Cons: takes a long time to charge

I really like this multimedia player. I used iTunes before this and used it to upload all my cd's. So when I got the AAC plugin all i had to do was just copy and paste the files right the hard drive. WiFi takes alot of battery power and with the USB cable it takes forever to charge. I plan on getting the dock to solve that problem. Other than that it is great.