Archos 605 contains evidence of massive content partnerships?

A couple of lines in a settings file does not a partnership make, but some enterprising hackers at the Archos Community Forums have discovered evidence that Archos is planning at least one large-scale content deal when the super-hot 605 launches in the US. Poking around in the unit's provider.xml file inside the system folder, user Plissken007 discovered pointers to not one, but eight major content partners for wireless media distribution, including some with live holder pages on the Archos website. Notables include Best Buy, Cicuit City, Amazon (for Unbox, probably), MovieLink, Vongo, AOL, and, of course, YouTube. Now, we can't see Best Buy and Circuit City sharing space like this, so Archos is probably hedging their bets a little, but if it's true, it looks like there's finally going to be a major competitor to Apple's iPod / iTunes ecosystem out there, eh?

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[Via Archos Fans]

[MastrCake Posted Aug 23rd 2007 5:58AM]

ARGH!!!

I could hardly read the translation of the post due to Google Translater not working correctly!

But still, nice find.

[MastrCake Posted Aug 23rd 2007 6:01AM]

Sorry, I meant to say that Google translater wasn't working right when I click on the Read link.

SORRY!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 23rd 2007 6:28AM]

PARTERSHIPS?

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 23rd 2007 7:43AM]

Need an editor?

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 23rd 2007 9:58AM]

Disclosure = a not very good film

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 23rd 2007 10:36AM]

Well, my solution to the media thing is Ubuntu studio + OpenMoko + Jamendo.com

But hey, if feeding the MaFIAA is your thing, whatever.