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Looks like a pretty decent machine]]>Feb 12th 2008 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/
FLAC among them :)
http://flac.sourceforge.net

Video:
AVI, WMV, ASF,MP4, MATROSKA(MKV), OGM, MPG/MPEG, VOB, DAT,MTV
DivX 3.11/4/5/6, XviD, MPEG-4 SP/ASP, WMV 9/8/7, H.264 MP, M-JPEG, MPEG 1/2

Audio:
MPEG1 Layer 1/2/3, WMA, FLAC, OGG Vorbis, AAC/AAC+, AC3, BSAC, True Audio, WavPack, G.726, CM

I despise the cylindrical shape of the buttons and general design, but Cowon do generally make decent stuff with broad format support.]]>Feb 12th 2008 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/
I paid $199 for my Archos 605 which has a touch screen. Personally, I think Cowon is missing the "price point" here, even though the device is great on all other accounts (besides touch screen).

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C'mon, Engadget, if you're gonna review something, at least use all the abilities. It's a good review, but you completely let some of the cooler features just fall right out the window.]]>Feb 12th 2008 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/
Now, if this were $300, I'd look into it. $400 is a little high in my book.
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I wish they would've done some HD specific tests for this review.

All in all, I'm sure the A3 is great but I'm glad I took the 605 over the A3. A3 has more codec support but the 605 has wifi, a web browser (extra$), touch screen, and now they have linux running on it. The DVR dock also provides a nice tivo-like interface with a TV guide.

@Ignatius
What kind of live video capture? Are you talking about recording from mobile TV? I guess that won't matter to US consumers.]]>Feb 12th 2008 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/]]>Feb 12th 2008 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/Feb 12th 2008 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/Feb 12th 2008 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/Feb 12th 2008 10:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/Feb 12th 2008 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/Feb 23rd 2008 11:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/Is this true? I mean, even my crappy blackberry audio player can do that.
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Oh, this is about a different A3. This looks cool. I was thinking about an Archos, maybe I think about this. The name matches better ;)]]>Feb 12th 2008 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/Feb 12th 2008 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/Feb 12th 2008 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/Feb 12th 2008 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/Feb 12th 2008 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/Feb 12th 2008 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/Feb 12th 2008 5:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/
I would have been pissed off if I had made the purchase without knowing that. Of course I pity the fool who drops $400 without getting more info about something like that.]]>Feb 12th 2008 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/Feb 12th 2008 7:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/
And yeah, the music browser doesn't do ID3 tags, but that's probably because it'd be kind of hard with all those formats. The playlist support is good, and you can add directories or a bunch of files or w/e. Just as long as you have the directories set up right, it works well. Specially since the last iPod I had had no way of adding an artist/album to an on the go playlist, but with the A3 I can, provided I put them in the right directories.

it's so nice to not have to convert anything. It's a godsend.]]>Feb 12th 2008 8:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/Feb 13th 2008 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/
I know you have to pay for some things such as the web browser and addition file formats, but with those in mind, how do they compare?

todd]]>Feb 13th 2008 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/Feb 13th 2008 11:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/Feb 15th 2008 4:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/12/cowon-a3-review/Feb 24th 2008 2:31PM