Archos 405 2 GB Portable Media Player (Silver)
- Play all your digital entertainment: movies, TV shows, photos, and music
- Record your favorite TV shows
- Add expandable memory with the built-in SD card slot for SD, mini SD, and micro SD
- Bright 3.5-inch color LCD screen (480 x 272 pixels)
- Watch on your home theater TV
Amazon.com Product Description
The Archos 405 lets you enjoy all your digital entertainment straight from the palm of your hand in an incredibly robust and portable device. Less than 1/2 inch thick, the pocket-sized Archos offers expandable memory with its built-in 2 GB hard drive and amazing video playback on its high-quality 3.5-inch full-color screen. Other great features include mass storage capabilities and photo viewing support. 
The Archos 405 lets you enjoy all your digital entertainment straight from the palm of your hand. View larger. | 
The device comes with photo viewing capabilities, supporting JPEG, BMP, and PNG files. View larger. |
For added video playback versatility, the player is compatible with MPEG4, AVI, and WMV video files. You can also record live TV or schedule a recording by using the integrated TV program guide available with the compatible DVR station (sold separately). The player features robust music playback features, too. On-board music file playback capabilities support MP3, CBR, VBR, WMA, protected WMA, and WAV files. To help round out the player's multimedia superiority, the Archos even comes with photo viewing capabilities. JPEG, BMP, and PNG files are 100 percent compatible with the player, and the player can pull up PDFs for portable review -- an ideal means to take bigger documents or e-books in PDF format on the road with you. Because of the Archos's USB 2.0 compatibility, a variety of different media files can be quickly transferred to the device. Charging the device can also be accomplished with an active USB connection. Other great features include mass storage capabilities, automatic firmware downloads, and a 3.5-millimeter headphone jack. With an advanced Li-Poly battery, the player supports up to 16 hours of continuous music playback and 5 hours of continuous video playback. Weighing in at a scant 4.2 ounces, the Archos generation 5 405 measures 3.9 by 3.07 by 0.5 inches.
 New Dish Network plug-in for the Archos 405. |
New Dish Network Plug-in
With a new plug-in, you can transfer recorded movies and TV shows from your Dish Network set-top box directly to your Archos 405. Play back Dish Network-recorded movies and TV shows on the go or on TV--in DVD quality. Multi-language is supported. The plug-in is compatible only with Dish Network STB models 622 and 722.
What's in the Box
Archos 405 portable media player, headphones, USB cable, DVR Station Gen 5 adapter, protective pouch, quick start guide, and legal/safety notice.
| | | The Archos 405 lets you enjoy all your digital entertainment in the palm of your hand and provides easy access to content and personalization options to fit individual lifestyles. This pocket-sized PMP offers expandable memory and a high-quality color screen. At less than half an inch thick, this PMP's sleek and compact design holds everything you need in your pocket while you're on the move. | |
|  | Personalize your Archos Make it yours: personalize your Archos 405 to fit your unique lifestyle. Abundant plug-ins and accessories are available to customize your device to work the way you do: video your friends and family in action, record your favorite TV shows and movies, and share your photos. | | |
|  | Your movies, your videos - Store and play up at least 2 movies.1
- Play the most popular video formats: MPEG-4, WMV, protected WMV, MPEG-2*, VOB*, and H.264* (*with optional plug-ins).
- Play the movies you shot on your camcorder. | | |
|  | Your photos - Transfer your photos from a PC or most mass storage devices via the USB 2.0 high speed interface.
- Store and view at least 20,000 photos1 (JPEG, PNG and BMP formats).
- Display slideshows with music and transition effects.
- Manage your files and folders directly on the device for better mobility.
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|  | Your TV - Record your favorite TV shows or series directly on your Archos 405 with the optional DVR Station Gen 5.
- Easy programming with the TV Program Guide.
- Record the most video sources such as satellite/cable box, VCR, DVD player in MPEG-4 format.
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|  | Your music - Store and listen up at least 1,000 songs1.
- Play the most popular music files such as MP3, WAV, WMA and protected WMA.
- Easily organize songs with the enhanced ARCLibrary.
- Customize your view by artist, album, type of music, and title, and create your playlist on the go.
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(1) On average; based on 3.5 mins/song & 64 kbits/s WMA, on 1000 kbits/s MPEG-4 audio/video encoding and 1h30/movie (for near DVD Quality), on JPEG, VGA
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Archos 405 2 GB Portable Media Player (Silver)
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- Publisher: Archos
- Label: Archos
- Studio: Archos
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 8 reviews
- Sales Rank in Electronics: #5860
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Amazing price for a player supporting so many codecs 2008-07-19
Comment: Hi!
Bought two of these for the kids along with a dual USB car charger. OK, it is far from an iPod, especially the UI and the feeling of quality. But it quickly plays all the DVDs I ripped for my kids and works nicely for long trips. If it breaks, well, 119 USD is not the end of the world. I have no time to convert all of my media for a single format device.
Support is also good. I called them about a unit I thought was bricked on delivery. I just got an error 102 "recovery mode". The nice support staff simply told me to hold the power and tv buttons down and copy the new firmware manually and everything worked. I was worried it was corrupt memory, but it was simply crappy software.
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Summary: Great value for the price 2008-06-30
Comment: Pros: A great mp3 and movie player for such a low price
Cons: no touch screen
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Great Player...Great Price 2008-03-19
Comment: First, I bought the 405 because I did not want to fool around with a hard drive (the 405 has a 2GB internal flash drive and an SD slot for adding memory) and I did not want to fool around with wifi. Hard drives that get moved around alot break and wifi for small devices tends to be unreliable.
That said, so far (one week) I'm very satisfied with this player. The screen (3.5") is easy to read. I use Microsoft Explorer to click-and-drag music files (whole albums and individual songs) onto the flash drive. You can sync with Windows Media Player, but it seems like an unnecessary hassle.
I understand the complaints of the other reviewers. The advertised DVR should work. But, unfortunately, the more complicated inexpensive electronics get the more likely they'll disappoint.
I also bought the mini dock...it allows you to plug the thing into the wall outlet to charge, you can hook up an external portable hard drive to hold more files, and you can patch out the picture on the screen to your tv.
For $129 and another $29 for the dock I'm very happy. I haven't downloaded any video files and don't know if I will. The ones they included (dumb unit info) play fine.
By the way, I posted a similar review a few days ago. I found out later that it wasn't posted because I wrote where to find SDHC cards cheap.
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Summary: Not quite ready for prime time 2008-03-01
Comment: The Archos 405 has a good screen, and it's a pleasure to watch. I was frustrated by many things about it though:
-it's very picky about SD cards and didn't like either of the two I already owned. This is well documented in the Archos forum
-both transferring files and charging by the USB cable seemed very slow. I left it plugged in overnight and it still wasn't fully charged the next morning.
-It wouldn't play any of the videos I'd ripped for my iPod without an extra cost plug in
-It doesn't have a hold button, which is a necessity if you want young children to use it while traveling (which is mainly what I bought it for)
My Creative Zen is better in every way, except for the size of the screen, and was half the price. I'll stick with the Zen until something better comes along.
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Summary: Good but you could hope for more 2008-02-09
Comment: I bought this Archos for my mother, since Ive owned 5 archos (3 models and 2 dead) but I have had good experience with returned archos... (actually with the ones sent back)...
Anyway it is really good mp3 player, pretty good movie and video player but I like the controls on my av500 better (besides the fact that im used to it, it is actually faster to get things done with menus and stuff)... Knowing this was a flash drive I thought the battery would hve been improve from the 4th generation of this model... but i was wrong... i actually think they put a smaller (mAh) battery... Cause even after many cycles my mom havent got near to the claimed 16 hours for mp3 (that is about 12 hours of normal usage) or 5 hours for video (yet to be tested) anyway... she gets more like 8 hours... and the charging time is really bad...
Im waiting for the mini dock to arrive so she can charge it directly to the wall... and to see if the battery improve...
Great set of features that is: sdhc compatibility, mini usb standard plug and capability to record with additional dock.. but i wish they would have let the other details that makes my av500 special (built in speaker, voice/line in recorder, removable battery, video out directly from the headphone plug)
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Archos 405 2 GB Portable Media Player (Silver)
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