Do Portable Video Players Like Archos 604 Mean The Death Of The Video Store
Forget about using yoiur laptop. These days portable DVD players like Archos are so affordable, it makes watching movies on the road easier than ever: a fact that appears to be having an effect on the walk in video store industry.Tuesday morning Hollywood Videos parent Movie Gallery filed Chapter 11, although it remains to be seen whether anyone actually cares.
Now that Netflix and Blockbuster deliver right to your door--and even offer a limited online database of 5,000 movies for download--it hardly seems worth the hassle to get you video fixes the old fashioned way. With the new wave in technology streamlining devices like the iPod Touch and iPhone that plays downloads or even a simple DVD solution like the Archos 604, it's clear that faster and easier solutions are here to stay (Think of the carbon imprint involved!) Much easier to just pop the Netflix DVD into your Archos 604 on long plane or train rides. And if you pay an extra $30 you can enable wifi on the Archos to download a new movie right before take-off. Just make sure you’ve stocked up on some of Gomadic’s Archos’ accessories like our Emergency Battery Extender before you go. Because you’d hate to lose power in the last 30 minutes of Ocean’s 13, wouldn’t you?