Digital Home Thoughts: Archos Announces The AV500 PVP

By announcing the AV500 Personal Video Player, "Archos has done a nice job on the successor of its AV300 series. With a slimmer sleeker more ergonomic look, the AV500 makes the AV320 look like a clunky has-been. The new PVP and PDA combo device with docking station will be released before the end of 2004, and is around the same size as a Jornada Pocket PC. No exact dimensions were released, although Archos assures us that it’s amazingly small. The 20 and 40GB devices use a 704x480 30fps maximum resolution screen, aside from standard DivX and MPEG4 playback, it will even play games and just about anything else you can imagine."



With standard support for regular PIM applications and a USB 2 interfact, it looks like a pretty sweet device. Although you get an idea of the scale of the device from the picture above, I wish there were specs on the device's dimensions and weight. Still, I want one. ;-)