Digital Home Thoughts: Archos 605

"The 605 WiFi comes from a long and distinguished line of video-enabled players. In fact French firm Archos has been making hard disk players for longer than most other companies have been selling plain flash-based music portables, and while others are only just beginning to incorporate video into their products, this is its fifth generation of players. It looks like a product that's evolved over the years, too. Its sharply-dressed aluminium chassis is slim and that brushed finish is a lot more practical than the ever-popular gloss finish of some products. And you'll notice a host of other practical touches before you even turn the thing on."



This is a pretty awesome sounding player. Other than lacking support for the full range of formats, it seems to incorporate just about everything you could want, but I still don't like their business model of charging more to turn on additional features in the player. Next time I am in the market for a new player, I might have to finally put aside my distaste for Archos based on one of their poor quality 1st generation products and finally give them a second chance.