Hands-on with the new Archos AV400 Series Pocket Video Recorder

And while we're on the subject of personal video players, ExtremeTech has a review of the new AV400 Pocket Video Recorder from Archos. It's not the Gmini 400 that everyone's buzzing about, but they're touting their new AV400 series (which comes in both 20GB and 80GB versions and both record and playback DivX files) as basically a portable TiVo. It comes with  a cradle with all the necessary video inputs and outputs to connect it up to both a regular TV and a cable or satellite box and can pull electronic programming guide info off the Internet so you can schedule it record specific shows. The downsides are that since it's a handheld device it doesn't quite have the processing power of a regular DVR (which results in some noticeable differences in quality), and apparently the programming guide interface is not so hot.