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Archos forum / Av500 + Digital Mini-cam

« on: October 10, 2006, 04:53:38 pm »

The Archos minicams are history. I spoke with customer support today and was told that Archos will no longer sell or support them. If you own one and it breaks, they will credit you towards the purchase of another Archos product, thats it!

It's too bad, they could have sold a lot of them.

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Archos forum / Archos Minicam

« on: October 10, 2006, 04:48:23 pm »

I purchased two Archos minicams and AV500’s in Jan. 06 and both units produced a ticking sound every second on the audio track from the camera. Since that time, I have been hounding Archos customer service to exchange the two units. Today is 10/10/06 and I just got off the phone with customer service. They finally stated today, the minicam will no longer be sold on their website, the minicam is discontinued for good. They have dropped the minicam units and will no longer manufacture them.

  I can't believe they would drop the minicam from the lineup, bad call on their part.  I also tried to purchase two 80GB 504 units and those are on backorder, they have no idea when they will come in. It seems they are putting the cart before the horse in many situations. They really need to become organized if they want to be competitive in today’s market.

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Archos forum / Av500 Mini-cam Audio Problems

« on: August 30, 2006, 09:33:38 pm »

For those interested. Archos pulled the MiniCam from shelves and will be introducing a new MiniCam very similar to the old one. This new design should work correctly without the audio problem. Resellers have the new units for testing and you should be able to purchase one in the next month or so.
 

 I also found out today that the New MiniCam will work on most of the new Archos units. Finally some good news.

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Archos forum / Av500 Mini-cam Audio Problems

« on: May 19, 2006, 02:37:10 pm »

I would like to find out if anyone else has experienced the same problems I am having with my TWO AV500 and Mini-Cam cameras.  I am using the Mini-Cam to record hiking through the woods. When I review the days hike I can hear a ticking noise on playback. The ticking noise is every second and is very annoying to say the least. When I record video on the AV500 using my camcorder as the camera, everything works fine, no clicking noise. I have two AV500's and two Mini-Cam units, the clicking is heard after playback on both AV500 units even after switching Mini-Cams. I have a call into the tech help and they are looking into it.

One more thing, some of the hiking video seems to fast forward itself about a minute from the end of the video recording.

Thank you.

William