Thread: Archos 605 ann 722K

Does anyone know if the Archos 605 can be hooked up to transfer shows from a 722K like a pocketdish can?

Originally Posted by uptownvideo

Does anyone know if the Archos 605 can be hooked up to transfer shows from a 722K like a pocketdish can?

Uptownvideo,

Yes it will work as long as the recordings are NOT HD. You can only transfer SD content to the Archos 605.

The other option is to playback the event and record the show in realtime to the Archos 605. The advantage to this is, the archos 605 will compress the recording using h.264 so it will use less Hard Drive space on the Archos 605 than a Transfered show. You will need the appropriate Plugin for the Archos though.

John

Thank you. Archos rep told me that it does not work with Dish receivers anymore.

There seems to have been a falling out. I for one would immediately buy a top of the line Archos at full (premium) price if I could take HD recordings from my home to my RV to watch.

Ain't gonna happen, sadly.

I thought I read somewhere that the Archos did not handle MPEG4??

Originally Posted by Jim5506

I thought I read somewhere that the Archos did not handle MPEG4??

Jim,

The Archos units are able to compress in Real Time using h.264 (or Mpeg4 compression), although an Archos unit is unable to transfer any stored content from a Dish DVR already encoded in MPEG4.

John

There was no falling out. It's just that it didn't make economic sense for Dish to continue to have Archos manufacture the custom pocketDish branded product. It was decided to let the Dish subscriber purchas compatible Archos devices on their own. The last time I checked the Archos website, the have a whole section devoted to Dish Network compatible products. Dish does have a section on their website referring to Archos products and a link to the Archos website. Engineering has made it clear (well, obviously, not as clear as they thought) that Archos continues to produce Dish Network compatible products and refers all those interested to the Archo website.

Originally Posted by DishSubLA

It was decided to let the Dish subscriber purchas compatible Archos devices on their own.

Except that compatible players (other than the PocketDish line) are only those in the 5th Archos generation. Neither my 404 nor the latest/greatest Archos Internet Media Tablets support the Dish Network plug-in. And for those 5th gen Archos players that do work, you can only download mpeg-2 SD from Dish HD receivers! Dish 522 and 625 receivers don't work. Mpeg-4 SD and HD don't work.

Absolutely. Archos devices will not work with Dish HD.

I would think the cost to Archos to enable this capability would be quite reasonable. But I must be wrong. Or maybe Dish wanted too much from Archos to allow them to do it. Heck, maybe the content providers nixed it. Nobody seems to be talking.

14M Dish customers. SWAG maybe a million with HD DVRs by the end of 2010. SWAG 5% of them as possible customers for a Dish HD Archos device: 50,000. Or 2% at 20,000. How many Archos devices are sold in a year?