Le premier Archoscast en vidéo enregistré le 22 Avril 2008 au Musée Dapper à
Paris, après la conférence de presse d’Archos sur le GPS In-Car Holder,
TVportation plugin, WebTV et WebRadio plugin et le Flash9.

Featuring Thocan of http://archoslounge.net, Valentin of http://archostest.fr, Pince and Bysus of http://jbmm.fr

Filmed by me.

DivX 640×360: Download here (297mb) (playable and streamable on Archos with fast forwarding)

Youtube link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=7zHPpxbBxG8 (playable on Archos)

This is a 13 minute video review of the new features that Archos announced on the 22nd of April 2008 at a press event in Paris. Everyone who owns an Archos 605 WiFi now has a $99 GPS optional accessory for it to have a very awesome GPS functionality in the car. The Archos Gen5 firmware now has reached version 2.0, and this one brings new quite awesome features such as integrated access to the worlds streaming live Web TV and Webradio channels as well as millions of episodes from hundreds of thousands of podcasts though the Web TV and Radio plugin that will be available from the beginning of May at $19, the TV+ Portation feature which basically uses the TV+ or a 605 WiFi or 705 WiFi as a Slingbox server, and there are free client softwares available on the 605 WiFi, 705 WiFi as well as Windows Mobile smartphones and Windows XP/Vista computers. Archos also has upgraded flash support to version9 with the On2 codec support, so more streaming flash video sites are now working in awesome full screen streaming.

HD quality: See the video in HD quality (3500kbit/s, 1280×720, DivX, 389mb)

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

Archos products marketing manager Rémi Durand shows us how the new TV Portation plugin works. It enables you to stream live video from your TV, through an Archos TV+, 605 WiFi or 705 WiFi, through the Internet or on your local network, to another Archos 605 WiFi, 705 WiFi, or on any Windows Mobile smartphone (later there may also be support for Symbian) or on a laptop or PC. This is basically the Archos way to do the Slingbox, AMD Live or Sony TV Anywhere feature. You can thus take your Satellite, cable, DVB-T or any other TV channels that you own or have at your home, and then bring them with you all over the world. The TV Portation uploads the live TV feed at QVGA resolution starting at 300kbit/s, and it can go up to 1mbit/s for now if you have a fast upload connection at your home. The plugin is free with the TV+ but costs $40/€40 to install the server side of the software on an Archos 605 WiFi or 705 WiFi. The client side of the software to install on a 605 WiFi, 705 WiFi, TV+, on a Windows Mobile smartphone or on a Windows XP/Vista computer is free.

HD quality: See the video in HD quality (3500kbit/s, 1280×720, DivX, 214mb)

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

Demonstration of these new cool features at the 22nd April 2008 Archos event at the Dapper museum in Paris. This new awesome feature provides instant access to more than 11000 podcasts directly on your Archos, as wellas more than 600 live streaming Web TV channels, and more than 9600 webradios.

HD quality: See the video in HD quality (3500kbit/s, 1280×720, DivX, 123mb)

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

In this video, I am showing up close some of the features of the Archos 605 GPS in demo mode (not actually using it in a car). You can thus see some of how the Archos GPS Interface and the Archos In-Car GPS Holder looks like.

HD quality: See the video in HD quality (3500kbit/s, 1280×720, DivX, 380mb)

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Jaffar is the biggest gadget expert in France, also recognized by TV and newspapers as being the top tablet guru. He owns and tests every gadget that is worth testing. He is called Mr.Bug at Archos cause he finds any bugs in the software and makes them disappear. He has posted over 16 thousand posts on the french tech, PDA and tablet forums on the Internet. He also works as bodyguard and doorman at the Archos headquarters. Don’t mess with this guy or he will kick your ass.

HD quality: See the video in HD quality (3500kbit/s, 1280×720, DivX, 111mb)

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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.

You can discuss about the Archos TV+ in the forum: http://forum.archosfans.com/viewforum.php?f=27

Posted by http://www.unwiredshow.tv/2008/02/11/50-archos-tv-plus-launch/