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PLASE HELP!! i cant stand it!!!

Sep 12, 2005 7:58AM PDT

I cant stand it!!! i just cant think of which mp3 player to buy!!!! ive gone back and forth from over 10 models but i think i have come down to 2

archos gmini 402

archos av420


i like the size of the 402 but whats really a putdown is it doesnt have direct recording capablities. and is the screen that small??

and for the av420, how big is it? (compared to an ipod because i dont want too large). i really like the direct recording from your tv thing. i could record my shows then watch them whenever.

please help!! i dont know which one to get... i will also take sigustions for other mp3 players

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I KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE!
Sep 13, 2005 1:43PM PDT

me and my friend both bought the products. i bought the 402 and he brought the AV420. I won. mine was smaller than an ipod. his was as big and awkward as a CD player. didnt look good in a pocket. mine had people flocking to see the"ipod that could play movies". his was some nerd tech people dismissed as a palm pilot. mine was 100$cheaper. really helps someone in high school. his left a hole in his car savings. its really easy also just to download movies from a p2p already in AVI format and reformat it with the free software. he said the line in was easier and i believe him. it is a bit of a hassle, but it pays off when you're watching pulp fiction in math class without being noticed even if it was harder to get. hope this helps, my friend hates me out of spite. oh, and P.S. the screen is PERFECT size. crystal video. sometimes my friend accidentally formatted his video wrong with the confusingf AV420 program he was using and the images would be superpixelated. hope this helps!

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so..
Sep 14, 2005 6:50AM PDT

ok,

first off that was a little more convincing but the thing is i want to get tv shows. I can get some external stuff that saves it to my computer so i might do that

p.s. p2p is illegal and i wont be doing that (i dont want to get sued for millions!)

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well if you need TV....
Sep 14, 2005 7:17AM PDT

then you can like.... get tv to play on your computer and get some video recording program. cnet has a whole arcticle of doing that, right? i really like the gmini, but ya, youre probably gonna want the av200 for convenience. but if youre still in school the av200 looks really lame. and big. and clunky.but if youre working or something or have bad eyes, then yeah, get the av200.

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in school
Sep 14, 2005 12:10PM PDT

im in school, my vision is near sited (i cant see far away without my glasses) so vision is good close up

so av420? what do others think