The digital audio sector changed radically in the year 2000 through Archos. The company is now extremely well known for the Archos MP3 player range but that year they changed the entire music world as we know it.
In 2000 Archos became the first company to harness hard drive technology for portable music services when they became the first company to produce an award-winning MP3 player that worked on a hard drive basis.
Since then the company has continued to move from strength to strength in the MP3 market, they’ve got portable audio and multimedia solutions down to a fine art! Review the Archos range now and you’ll find both flash based and hard drive based players. You can go shopping for standard MP3 models, or opt for advanced models that offer extras such as FM radio and recorder facilities.
Or you can choose an even more advanced solution and opt for a multimedia player that makes a full use of color and that allows you to watch video footage, to store photos or images and to play games. One thing is guaranteed here - Archos certainly don’t sit on their laurels!
The company currently offers the following products:
- The GMini Range - players in this range include the 400, the XS200, the 220 and the 120. Storage capacity for these players ranges from 3GB to 20GB.
- The Jukebox Studio Series - this range features a hard drive based MP3 player and a player/recorder.
- The Ondio128 Series - this range features a small MP3 player and a player/recorder with an FM tuner.
Recent developments have seen Archos release complete multimedia solutions as well as robust and well-designed standard MP3 models. Industry opinion seems to indicate that they will continue to innovate and to produce leading-edge high quality portable multimedia solutions well into the future.