Thursday, December 15, 2005
Washington Post Reviews Pocket Dish AV700E
Posted by James Fee in "HARDWARE" @ 12:00 PM
"The array of menus and status indicators on the screen needs editing just as badly. The software presents either too much information (how much do you care about the "bit rate" of the currently playing MP3 file?) or too little (its listing of TV shows omits dates, times and channels). Common tasks require too many taps of all those buttons and frequent waits: Shuffling a music playlist requires navigating to a sub-menu and selecting the last of five items there, after first waiting a few seconds for the player to read in the list of songs in that playlist."
I'm not surprised that the reviewer didn't care too much for the Dish portable DVR. Archos has a history of making devices that are way too complicated for the average user and this review shows it. Simple navigation works well as TiVo has shown over the years and others have emulated with their recent DVRs. 12 buttons on the front of any unit shows that Archos doesn't understand their users and Dish should have know better before hooking up with a company such as them (there is the easy way, the hard way and then the Archos way which is the hard way only more difficult).
TiVoToGo will now have the opportunity it needs to move to the forefront of taking your TV shows on the road (use the device you want and no DRM getting in your way). To even think that Dish is comptemplating supporting USB 1.1 transfers shows how little they know about transfering video. :roll:
I'm not surprised that the reviewer didn't care too much for the Dish portable DVR. Archos has a history of making devices that are way too complicated for the average user and this review shows it. Simple navigation works well as TiVo has shown over the years and others have emulated with their recent DVRs. 12 buttons on the front of any unit shows that Archos doesn't understand their users and Dish should have know better before hooking up with a company such as them (there is the easy way, the hard way and then the Archos way which is the hard way only more difficult).
TiVoToGo will now have the opportunity it needs to move to the forefront of taking your TV shows on the road (use the device you want and no DRM getting in your way). To even think that Dish is comptemplating supporting USB 1.1 transfers shows how little they know about transfering video. :roll:
