The link to this video on Youtube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=mSvElbsVTpI (playable in the Archos)

If needed, I will post this 52 minute video in HD quality later. Though the camera position and sound quality wasn’t optimal so it might not be necessary.

There is this complete press conference filmed also from another angle available filmed by Thocan at: http://www.archoslounge.net/La-conf-La-video-au-complet.html

And parts of the conference available at: http://www.lesnumeriques.com/news_id-4910.html

An introduction to the press event at the Dapper Museum in Paris on the 22nd of April 2008, where Archos was showing the new GPS accessory for the 605 WiFi, the flash9 firmware update, TVportation plugin (like Slingbox) and WebTV, WebRadio and Podcast streamer plugin. This video features Thocan from Archoslounge.net, Valentin from archostest.fr, Pince and Bysus from Jbmm.fr and Jaffar from Archos.com.

HD quality: See the video in HD quality (3500kbit/s, 1280×720, DivX, 36mb)

Flash versions: Blip, Dailymotion, Metacafe, Putfile, Revver, Sumo, Vimeo, Vsocial, Youtube

CNN has an article explaining more on what it is that Echostar Dish Networks bought of spectrum in the US 700Mhz spectrum auction:

Dish Network bought a relatively thin slice of airwaves — a 6 megahertz block within the 700 MHz frequency band. The block covers most of the U.S. except New York, Los Angeles and Boston.

Verizon got 12 megahertz while ATT got 10 megahertz. So Dish Networks spectrum is slightly smaller, but it could still be used for a lot of things.. Verizon has got the only nationwide licence, ATT got coverage for 100% of the 200 largest cities in the USA while Dish Networks coverage is nationwide except New York, Los Angeles and Boston which Qualcomm picked up. Dish’s license holdings cover 76% of the U.S. population.

If anyone has ideas and knows what can be done with that kind of spectrum please post in the forum: http://forum.archosfans.com/viewtopic.php?t=14352

Dish Networks also invested 150 million dollars in the satellite Internet startup TerreStar, so in combination with that 6 megahertz of 700Mhz spectrum, perhaps the 700Mhz would be used partly for uploading, while the downloading could come directly from some kinds of satellites.

Perhaps the 6megahertz can be used for some kind of video-on-demand service in combination with the proposed white spaces in the unlicensed 700Mhz spectrum that Google wants to develop solutions for.

Or it could also maybe be used for SlingPlayer bandwidth to stream Slingbox content to an Archos wirelessly according to RCRnews.

It could also be used to display targeted Google advertising on regular satellite TV.

I hope that Echostar will be able to deploy their 700Mhz network using net neutrality, thus installing small broadcast boxes in people’s homes, and asking people to hook that box up using Ethernet to their existing broadband Internet connection or enter in a WPA password to their local WiFi access point. And this way re-broadcasting that existing bandwidth on their spectrum and simply providing their services over IP and using other ISPs bandwidth. They can still setup their own broadcast antennas on high masts, perhaps hooking up to Google’s dark fiber bandwidth when it is available. But if they could also use some of their 12.7 million existing Satellite TV customers broadband Internet bandwdith, forward and use that, in cooperation with FON. This could speed deployment up and increase the available coverage and bandwidth.

According to the financial document that Archos released this week, SFR is the only big telecom company to have announced the HSDPA partnership to cover France thus far, but Archos says they are counting on releasing the HSDPA devices with at least two other HSDPA telecom providers before the end of the year.

Who might those other two telecom partners be? Does Archos have advanced talks with someone in the USA thus far? I think it would probably be one of the US telecoms that is not ATT which has this exclusive deal with Apple for the iPhone. So I would think any of Sprint, Verizon or T-Mobile could potentially be a good telecom partner to launch the HSDPA device in the USA at attractive prices. Especially, as far as I know, in the USA you have to have an agreement with the telecom provider to even be allowed to use their HSDPA network, in the USA, you cannot have a product and put any HSDPA SIM card in it for it to work.

How about telecoms to cover other countries in Europe? Does Archos have advanced discussions going on with a german telecom? How will it connect in the UK? I would say that an agreement with Hutchinson Whampoa would be a good way to cover the UK, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Austria, Hong Kong and Australia in one device distribution and content monetization agreement with Three. Something could go on with telefonica for Spain?

In any ways, I hope that Archos can quickly get nice agreements in place with HSDPA providers to cover every country in the world that has got HSDPA networks. Or at least that any HSDPA SIM card could be used in the remaining countries where there wouldn’t be a distribution agreement in place yet at the initial release of the HSDPA products.