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archos 605 no video out

by Roofus420 Sep 29, 2007 5:18AM PDT

I recently upgraded my archos 402 to a 605 wifi and have found one of my favourite features the video out is not on it and I may have to buy the dvr station to do this my old player used to just play out throught the headphone jack to three rca's into my tv. do I need this station or am I missing something in my menu?

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yeah

by JonTitor Sep 29, 2007 1:14PM PDT

I loved the Gmini 402 (have the Camcorder version myself)
unfortunately Archos wanted a bit of profit on the video out
If you don't want the whole DVR Dock, both the Extended Battery Dock, and the cheaper Mini Dock can also do Video Out

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more things its not equipped with

by Roofus420 Oct 1, 2007 7:41AM PDT

just tried to watch some movies had a no play till I buy the podcast plug in and right after and a no play till I buy the mpeg 2 plug in plus the opera plug in this toy is getting expensive. I'm glad the plain avi still work.

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charges

by JonTitor Oct 1, 2007 7:56AM PDT

Archos charges for the licences to those different plug ins, but it makes some money on them too. It's a clever way to make the base player look very cheap
Avi's and other files work because usually they can be run with like a xvid decoder which is free to use.

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