ARCHOS 24D Vision 4 GB MP4 Player  (Black, 2.4 Display)

The 24D Vision MP4 player from Archos is an amazing little powerhouse of a personal multimedia device which is even more unbelievable considering its extremely affordable market price. With the MP4 player’s standard audio and video playback capability, this Archos 24D Vision has further multimedia features like FM Radio, voice recorder, image and video capture along with a very innovative web camera feature.

Design

This very efficient and sophisticated MP4 player from Archos comes with a multitude of very useful features and functions which are purely aimed at providing you with a very memorable and leisurely multimedia entertainment experience. Sporting a very stylish and sleek body design with dimensions of 84.29 mm x 55.29 mm x 8.9 mm, this pocket sized fully loaded personal entertainment device weighs a very low 45.1 g.

The Archos 24D sports a 2.4 inch TFT screen that has a QVGA display resolution of 320 x 240 pixels. The backlit control buttons on this MP4 player can be found vertically arranged on the right of the display screen for easy access and trouble-free usage.

Battery and Storage

With audio and video playback along with image capture functions; this very handy MP4 player comes with a sizeable internal storage capacity of 8 GB. The Archos 24D offers you a further memory expansion possibility in the form of an SDHC memory card slot capable of supporting an 8 GB memory card. This gives you an overall maximum storage capacity of 16 GB which is enough to make sure that that you never run short of space for your preferred modes of multimedia entertainment.

This MP4 player gets its operational power from a built-in rechargeable battery that provides up to 8 hours of audio playback or up to 3 hours on the video playback mode. All the intended files can be transferred from the player’s memory to a computer or the other way around by using its high-speed USB connectivity. The USB cable used for the transfer of files also doubles up as the Archos’ battery charger.

Functions

As a multimedia powerhouse, this Archos 24D is capable of supporting  MP3, WAV, OGG, FLAC and APE file formats for audio playback while being compatible with FLV, AVI, RMVB and 3GP files for video playback. The MP4 player further has playback option for all your digital photographs which can be JPEG, BMP, GIF and TIF files. The Audio capability of this highly capable MP4 player is further enhanced by the presence of a FM receiver with an operational frequency range from 87.5 to 108 MHz. The advent of a built-in microphone serves the purpose of voice recording and also lets you live record from the FM radio and saved in WAV format.

The multimedia capability of this player is further enhanced with the advent of a camera which operates through a 0.3 megapixel sensor. This gives it the ability to capture still images with a maximum resolution of 1600 x 1200 pixels and also record videos in AVI format with a maximum resolution of 320×240 pixels at 15 fps. This photo and video capture function can be the perfect tool for all your spontaneous photos and video capturing anywhere, anytime.

Another very new and innovative feature on this MP4 player is the Webcam function which lets you connect the Archos player to a computer, select the webcam mode and start video chatting with all your friends, family and loved ones.