Are these any good - Me wants...

[Rob]

Anyone seen any reviews, or mates got one? I'm talking of the Thompson Lyra PDP 2860



Now I quite fancy one of these for watching movies on the go, especially with 80hours on low res 25 on highest. Four hours battery aint bad either. But it only plays AVI's (Mpeg4), would this be a problem getting DVD's onto PC, then on to it?

Make sure the video is encoded in MPEG4 and the audio is encoded in mp3 audio. The .AVI files may be encoded in audio/video formats that are not currently supported by the Thomson Lyra AV Jukebox device.

Note: The Thomson Lyra AV Jukebox can play MPEG4 video content encoded with the DivX 4/5 codecs.

Anyone got any experience with portable multi-media?



Cheers

Rob

[DeludedGuy]

Ebuyer are selling something similar which plays more formates for £170

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...=65125&_LOC=UK

[chrissatchell]

if you look on google theres a few sites with reviews on them but the battery life and quality of picture isn't supposed to be great, plus the encoding has to be perfect or it will spit its dummy out, i'd wait for newer models...

[ACiD303]

My mate has an archos AV 300 Unit (http://www.archos.com/products/av300_series.html) . . . he has a 100GB HDD in it, 2 OS's (one a XP clone) for more format support and other little software pluses. . . the quality is rather snazzy it has to be said. He's bought a digicam addon too for it and the quality aint too bad either.

[Rob]

I was looking at the Archos too. IIRC bit more pricey, but then, if they do more then fairy nuff.

Only thing that puts me off is...

With the DVR add-on, your AV300 becomes a portable VCR. you can record directly off the TV into MPEG-4.

So I am guessing that to watch movies without the add-on, I'd have to get them on PC as MPEG4 first?