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Gin Martini

Member
Oct 20, 2010
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I heard to play mpeg-2 movies, you have to buy a codec from archos which cost something like $20... is it true? Can anyone confirm if it can play movies like .avi, .mkv, etc right out of the box?

thank in advance!
 

hypergolic

Member
Oct 29, 2010
16
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Okay well it seems to matter what kind of file is inside the mkv container. I tried playing another video and it prompted me to buy the cinema plugin from archos. I went to try and buy it and I punched in my product number which starts with a 7 and it responded that my product number needs to start with a letter. grrrr.
 

italdream

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Oct 30, 2010
7
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I got yesterday my archos 70 IT. It is a nice device, slim, good quality build, except for a pretty sub-par camera. Shipped with android 2.1. However, I have run into a huge tethering problem and might have to return the device if I can't solve. I am not able to tether neither via bluetooth or Wifi. I have a T-Mobile Touch Pro 2. Of course, the wireless option gives me the problem of not being able to see the ad-hoc connection with the archos. However, I cannot use bluetooth either.

After I pair the device and I follow the whole BT tethering procedure I get on the archos an "unable to to connect by tethering" message. If I try to initiate the connection via the Touch Pro 2 using the function "Network Manager", and choosing to share an internet connection with the "A70S" (The archos 70) I get a message on the Touch Pro 2 saying that the device might be turned off or not support personal area network services.

I have used epc.tmobile.com as APN, but I have also tried wap.voicestream.com; t-mobile.com and others. Nothing seems to work. I am so frustrated. If I cannot fix it, I might have to return the Archos and go with a 3g enabled tablet. I planned to use the archos tablet for my long commute and without internet is not much helful. Any suggestion, advise?
 

rc211e

Senior Member
Oct 23, 2010
76
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Any more updates feedback etc, I am really keen to hear more about these tablets they look good.
 
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