I say go for the archos
reasons:
1 4' screen
2 Video recording capacity
3 Directly connect even camcorders or digicams
5 the camera attachment is avilable pretty soon
6 It has a removable Battery
I hav an av500 and cant be more happy
i've been looking around at pvps and portable dvrs lately and the archos ab5100 is seeming to be the serious contender at the moment, however up pops the ipod video. Assuming that there will be an acessorie for recording video onto the ipod ive been having some trouble making a decision. Obviously (to me) the archos av5100 is a better system but when I factor in price and size (portability factor) i get confused. Please help

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