Portable Media Players

[soundiesam]

Hey all I'm looking to buy a Portable Media Player to Widdle away those long tour bus journeys up and down the county! Does anybody have any suggestions of which one someone has got to have a nice one out there!

Sam

[Frag_Me]

I heartily recommend Archos products, if you can stretch your wallet to them. I've got one of the old AV340s and it seems just like a modern day cutting edge product even though it is a generation or 3 behind.

 

They can be a little more expensive and they are difficult to properly get videos onto (mine is anyway, with encoding and whatnot) but once you know what you are doing they are very rewarding.

[soundiesam]

hey I looked at Archos they are a bit pricey but I still want one! Gotta love asking parents for Christmas presents. I looked at the 404 but the only issue is the battery isn't replaceable so its not gonna last that long! so I'm looking at the next model up the 504

Sam

[Ben Lawrance]

What about something like the Sony PSP. I've not got one myself, but as I understand it, you can play games, listen to music, watch films, work on documents etc with it. Sounds quite a gadget.

 

2p in the pot.

[soundiesam]

the only issure with the PSP is there is no internal harddrive so you would need a memeory stick to save any music or videos

sam

[robloxley]

Would be curios how the Archos with DVB tuner works on the move?

[Bryson]

There's a reason that the iPod has the market share it does...

[gareth]

... and that reason is that it's the dog's nads. I have one (Photo 60Gb) and it's absolutely fab. Knocks seven bells out of the Creative one that it replaced, and having played with Sony and Archos ones that friends and colleagues own, it knocks seven bells out of those, too.

[Bryson]

Indeed. I know getting the same one as everyone else isn't so cool, but they really are that good. Also, the software is easy and good. That is not the case with almost all of the others. Sony, I'm lookin' at you.

[soundiesam]

I looked at the ipod the only issue I didnt like was that you couldnt record off of tv and stuff like that! I Love Ipods and my dad wouldnt buy me one for christmas either because he hates ipods

sam

[Tomo]

The only problem I have with the IPod is that it doesn't do OGG files.

 

Which means that I'm stuck with poor mp3 compression - but as I'm only listening to it on a train/airport/aircraft with loads of background noise, it's not a major issue.

[soundiesam]

I don't know what to buy! I did want an ipod but its whether you wanna go with the crowd or not! I would like something I can copy dvd's onto and music

sam

[the kid]

It does depend what you want it for, but I know some one who has just got a tablet pc. Bit heavy but if you get media center on it, should be sorted for a bit.

[Bryson]

The only problem I have with the IPod is that it doesn't do OGG files.

 

Which means that I'm stuck with poor mp3 compression - but as I'm only listening to it on a train/airport/aircraft with loads of background noise, it's not a major issue.

 

 

....or pretty good AAC. Or really good ALAC.

 

:(

 

I know, I'm a massive fanboy. I'll go now.

[soundiesam]

as I said in the original message I want it to watch videos on and dvds and I also want to copy all my music onto it so I can listen to music as well all in one player. also I cant afford a tablet pc

sam