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This is a 13 minute video review of the new features that Archos announced on the 22nd of April 2008 at a press event in Paris. Everyone who owns an Archos 605 WiFi now has a $99 GPS optional accessory for it to have a very awesome GPS functionality in the car. The Archos Gen5 firmware now has reached version 2.0, and this one brings new quite awesome features such as integrated access to the worlds streaming live Web TV and Webradio channels as well as millions of episodes from hundreds of thousands of podcasts though the Web TV and Radio plugin that will be available from the beginning of May at $19, the TV+ Portation feature which basically uses the TV+ or a 605 WiFi or 705 WiFi as a Slingbox server, and there are free client softwares available on the 605 WiFi, 705 WiFi as well as Windows Mobile smartphones and Windows XP/Vista computers. Archos also has upgraded flash support to version9 with the On2 codec support, so more streaming flash video sites are now working in awesome full screen streaming.

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Archos products marketing manager Rémi Durand shows us how the new TV Portation plugin works. It enables you to stream live video from your TV, through an Archos TV+, 605 WiFi or 705 WiFi, through the Internet or on your local network, to another Archos 605 WiFi, 705 WiFi, or on any Windows Mobile smartphone (later there may also be support for Symbian) or on a laptop or PC. This is basically the Archos way to do the Slingbox, AMD Live or Sony TV Anywhere feature. You can thus take your Satellite, cable, DVB-T or any other TV channels that you own or have at your home, and then bring them with you all over the world. The TV Portation uploads the live TV feed at QVGA resolution starting at 300kbit/s, and it can go up to 1mbit/s for now if you have a fast upload connection at your home. The plugin is free with the TV+ but costs $40/€40 to install the server side of the software on an Archos 605 WiFi or 705 WiFi. The client side of the software to install on a 605 WiFi, 705 WiFi, TV+, on a Windows Mobile smartphone or on a Windows XP/Vista computer is free.

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Demonstration of these new cool features at the 22nd April 2008 Archos event at the Dapper museum in Paris. This new awesome feature provides instant access to more than 11000 podcasts directly on your Archos, as wellas more than 600 live streaming Web TV channels, and more than 9600 webradios.

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In this video, I am showing up close some of the features of the Archos 605 GPS in demo mode (not actually using it in a car). You can thus see some of how the Archos GPS Interface and the Archos In-Car GPS Holder looks like.

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Jaffar is the biggest gadget expert in France, also recognized by TV and newspapers as being the top tablet guru. He owns and tests every gadget that is worth testing. He is called Mr.Bug at Archos cause he finds any bugs in the software and makes them disappear. He has posted over 16 thousand posts on the french tech, PDA and tablet forums on the Internet. He also works as bodyguard and doorman at the Archos headquarters. Don’t mess with this guy or he will kick your ass.

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An introduction to the press event at the Dapper Museum in Paris on the 22nd of April 2008, where Archos was showing the new GPS accessory for the 605 WiFi, the flash9 firmware update, TVportation plugin (like Slingbox) and WebTV, WebRadio and Podcast streamer plugin. This video features Thocan from Archoslounge.net, Valentin from archostest.fr, Pince and Bysus from Jbmm.fr and Jaffar from Archos.com.

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Of the 46 long video interviews and product demonstrations that I did at CeBIT 2008, I still have to post 13 of them. Will hopefully complete the CeBIT 2008 video postings later this week. (need to re-upload the native HD video files, encode and publish)

Pankaj Kedia is the Director of the MID program at Intel. The Mobile Internet Device is based on the new Intel Atom X86 processor, which should consume less power at similar X86 performance as previous Intel Ultra Low Voltage processors. The Atom systems might be able to dissipate low enough heat to be able to run without fan. Some of the MIDs will be using Linux OSes that permits to optimize the interfaces to the lowest possible system requirements. During this interview, Pankaj Kedia explains how the Atom processor works, when it will be available, how much it will cost, what makes the difference between the regular Atom and the Atom Centrino. No talk on camera though comparing Intel’s Atom to the AMD Geode or VIA C7M’s performance, price and power consumption.

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Niklas Samios, COO of Winbox, presents the worlds first Windows CE based video-on-demand set-top-box and media streamer, the EVO1-XS. It will be distributed by Medion in Europe and retail at 150 euros. It can connect on the Maxdome video-on-demand service in Germany. There is also a big hybrid device with a 250GB hard drive, dual TV tuners which will be available for 500 euros. There will also be a TV with the integrated set-top-box release to be called the Edison.

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