Archos AV4100 review

Typical price: £550

What is it: Hard-drive based portable media centre

What we think: One of our favourite portable media players, with a wide range of supported formats and solid build quality

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7.7

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5.5

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	Archos AV4100	PQI mPack P600	Archos AV420	Archos 504
Review date	26 Aug 05	8 Feb 06	14 May 05	1 Dec 06
Editor's rating	7.7	8.8	8.3	8.3
Price range	£550
Review summary	Archos' AV4100 is a portable media centre with a huge 100GB capacity that offers peerless video quality and a clean, functional design. However, it's expensive and still doesn't offer across-the-board format support, most noticeably omitting MPEG and QuickTime. But if this isn't important, it manages to tick all the important boxes, including external source recording, and it fully supports the omnipresent DivX and Xvid codecs for highly impressive results Read full review	It's taken a relative newcomer to show the old timers how to do things right. PQI hasn't been in the mainstream long, but its P600 blows away the competiton like a nuclear bomb. Feature-wise, there's nothing more to ask for here. A few tweaks to the user-interface and PQI could just push this product from merely impressive to spectacular Read full review	It's not perfect, but the AV420 is by far the best portable video player we've seen Read full review	Measurable bulk and pricey 160GB version aside, the do-it-all Archos 504 is an awesome AV performer Read full review
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