What is an MDVR

by editor@text4price.com @ 27 June 2006 - 15:21:43

Having recently released the AV 700, Archos has just released a new version. This is an MDVR - a mobile digital video recorder and to the best of our knowledge, it's the first of its kind.

The trouble is it still looks exactly like the AV700. In fact, it's exactly the same as the AV700 on the outside but if you could see the electronics beneath the plastic facade, you would think otherwise.

Just like a vanilla AV700 this device plays the video, music and prohun games files on the same vast 7in screen. This all-new AV700 tv also has two - yes this is not a typo - two digital tv tuners.

Why would you need an AV700 with two digital tv tuners?

Because you can record directly from external video sources via the composite input without the need to be linked up to anything else to record - it can do the business from its internal digital tuners and aerial, which pick up the various Freeview channels.

So if it has two tuners- does that mean I can record one programme whilst watching another?

Sadly no, but you can take this device and use it on the train or an area with poorer reception. The two digital tuners work in unison to provide the best TV reception anywhere.

As a bonus, you can schedule TV recordings from the EPG and store up to 35 hours of footage on the 40GB HD. And if you don't have a Freeview set-top box, you can link the av700tv to your telly and record from that too.

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