Typical price: £310
What is it: Portable media centre with 102mm LCD and 30GB hard drive
What we think: The best Archos yet, this media player has a beautiful screen for video but an archaic control system
Average user rating
5.3
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Average user rating from 4 users
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Archos AV500 user reviews
October 26, 2006
Posted by: Jeff Russell
"Pretty useless"
What I like:
Most things are excellent
What I don't like:
Cannot store on
Review:
Both my brother and I bought the av 500 - one 80g and one 30g. Both are excellent as players but that is all they are. We have both had to reformat the hard drive numerous times on one occasion losing 50gig of media!! On speaking to customer support I was told, in other words, to go take a jump. They are not interested and say they do not sell it as a hard drive, but it is pretty useless if every time you connect to your PC to add or remove stuff you have to reformat before the PC will recognize it!!! In fact it is unbelievable.
Archos should not be allowed to sell this as a portable media centre as part of the use of a PMC is to be able to add or remove stuff to use the device properly.
BE WARNED!!!
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