According to PC World, "the first
hand held capable of direct-from-TV recording" was introduced by Samsung this week, but we're presuming they maybe
haven't heard of the Archos range of portable
players/recorders. Nevertheless, the YM-P1 seems moderately impressive. It has a 20GB hard drive, an AV-in connection, TV-output, an SD card slot, a voice recorder function and displays video on a 4-inch TFT-LCD screen -- with a reported battery life of up to six hours.
It supports MP3, WMA, OGG, AC3, MPEG4, DivX, Xvid, AVI, WMV, JPG, BMP -- and text files -- and supports Microsoft 'Plays For Sure Audio and Video Download', whatever that is.
It should be available in February for around $399.
