About five years ago, the MP3 format started getting quite popular. You could pretty much compress a 650MB audio CD into a tenth of its size while keeping the quality almost as good as the original. This brought about the craze of portable MP3 players which are still selling quite well. A little over a couple of years back, DivX started gaining popularity and did the same for video that MP3 did for audio. This time around you could compress a 4.7GB DVD into a 700MB file while keeping a very respectable quality. It was just a matter of time before someone makes a portable DivX player and that time is now. The company that makes such a device is called Archos and they've been selling their AV3xx Video Recorder with 20GB, 40GB and now 80GB hard drives. Today, we take a look at their AV380- the one with highest capacity 80GB drive.

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