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Still fairly impressive, though.
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Also another bit of news, starting sometime from now to next month, archos will reintroduce their AV400 and gmini lines to be compliant with Microsoft's play4sure standard. So if you have a Windows Media Center, you can watch recorded TV programs using these archos devices.

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The battery on the 480 is not removable, while the 420 has a removable battery. It's the one reason I bought the 420 instead of the 480, and it's why I would never buy the 4100.....what's the point of all that content if you can only watch for a few hours at a time without plugging in? I recently took a trip to Italy with 6 or 7 2-hour movies, plus a bunch of 1 hour TV shows ripped from my TiVO (realtime, unfortunately). With two extra batteries, I had plenty of juice for the long plane ride.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/02/17/the-100gb-av4100-from-archos/http://www.engadget.com/2005/02/17/the-100gb-av4100-from-archos/Dec 19th 2005 12:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/02/17/the-100gb-av4100-from-archos/http://www.engadget.com/2005/02/17/the-100gb-av4100-from-archos/Dec 19th 2005 12:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/02/17/the-100gb-av4100-from-archos/http://www.engadget.com/2005/02/17/the-100gb-av4100-from-archos/
Toshiba announced 30GB and 40GB drives using that form factor months ago, but Apple seems to be buying them up as fast as they can make them for the iPod production lines.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/02/17/the-100gb-av4100-from-archos/http://www.engadget.com/2005/02/17/the-100gb-av4100-from-archos/
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http://www.archos.com/products/overview/pma_400.html

The A500 is called PMA400 now and has been released.
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According to Archos' press release, it's suppose to come out sometime in the first quarter of this year.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/02/17/the-100gb-av4100-from-archos/http://www.engadget.com/2005/02/17/the-100gb-av4100-from-archos/Dec 19th 2005 12:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/02/17/the-100gb-av4100-from-archos/http://www.engadget.com/2005/02/17/the-100gb-av4100-from-archos/Dec 19th 2005 12:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/02/17/the-100gb-av4100-from-archos/http://www.engadget.com/2005/02/17/the-100gb-av4100-from-archos/
I purchased an AV 420 a few weeks ago and based my purchase on the person I spoke to in tech support. He said that the MS PlayForSure compatibility would come via firmware and that I should not hold off on purchasing. Yesterday, I spoke to another person in tech support who says he has spoken to the tech support manager. The manager has indicated that in fact the current AV 420 hardware will not work with PlayForSure and there is no firmware that will make it work. The new AV 420 will include new chips and the PlayForSure logo. He did not indicate when it would be available other than to say "soon". He also indicated that all current functions would remain. I've got one more day to return my unit. I really hate to because it has performed perfectly in all phases of operation. I'm guessing that there will be new 100GM models as well that carry the PlayForSure logo,however, I can't say for sure.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/02/17/the-100gb-av4100-from-archos/http://www.engadget.com/2005/02/17/the-100gb-av4100-from-archos/
If it wasn't for the recording, the unit is pretty good.

Cheers]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/02/17/the-100gb-av4100-from-archos/http://www.engadget.com/2005/02/17/the-100gb-av4100-from-archos/
I have looked for updates all over the place.

Does anyone have suggestions????

Thanks.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:10AM