Did the player now a few days and am excited to 90%. The sound is top. Operation is simple and logical. Functionality is very good. What more do you want? On video, the device plays apparently really starting to grumble all without. Test times be able to play in actual DVD resolution in Xvid format Hab an ordinary DVD rip. Has worked without problems. Apart from comic diagonal stripes with a very fast camera movements I can not fault the quality had. In addition, I've still with XMediaRecode (has an Archos 3 Preset innately) converts a video file to match the Archos resolution. Also the video was played without a murmur. Can only say, as MP3 and video player, the part is simply very good. Play've done worse experience in video with my Nokia 5800 XM ...
A few small flaws but there already. It is a pity that you can not change the volume without touching the screen, and thus having to remove the player getting out of pants or jacket pocket. In addition, the accuracy of the volume control is insufficient. This virtual scroll wheel to scroll through long libraries is very used to. Since it would have done better in my opinion Kinetic Scrolling.
For FM transmitter I can not say anything yet. I still have to test. But for me personally, this feature is not so important in fact.
All in all, one can definitely say: Anyone looking for a good player for correspondingly good money, is well served with Archos 3. For everything in the price is absolutely justified.
