archos av400 or av500 portable recording device

MOM_OF_TWO

Would anyone owning these products please reply. I am interesting in buying but have read conflicting reviews on their performance.
what do you use them for ? are they used regularly ?

At present we are without a vcr recorder at home but thought this may be useful to use when we are away in the caravan. For watching recordings on 17" lcd tv or playing music and storing photos.

Looked at av 400 on boots site but it doesnt appear to have the docking pod included in the equipment supplied. Has anyone ordered this model from boots. and have they got te equipment supplied wrong.

Thanks for any replies
Mom of two

rich_jtg

Have had experience of the 100GB version AV500...

It's a good device if you feel you are going to get use from it. Otherwise, it's alot of money for something to use just now and again.

Quality of the screen is very good, you can get very good quality of transfers from DVD if you use a PC and have plenty of time.

Recordings created on the unit itself aren't as good, and are noticably so when viewed through a larger screen.

The dock isn't essential as it only provides a tidy way of connecting the cables which could be used directly anyway.

We returned ours as we just couldn't justify the price for the amount of use it got.

It won't replace a decent hard disc recorder for quality, but is good if you travel alot.

<edit> Oh, and forgot to say that the feature of downloading images from a digital camera didn't work on any of our cameras (mainly Canon ones) which was disappointing. The only way was to use a separate card reader.

MOM_OF_TWO

Decided to go for Currys deal of an archos av 560 ,better deal and larger memory.

Pleased so far.
Teresa