Accessory Description

Star Wars Lego. That may be the first thing that pops into your head when you look at the JBM Digital Video Recorder module. Another likely candidate is "I can do what?".

A president of Sony corporation once said "The future has arrived, it's just not evenly distributed yet." Waiting so long for products like this to arrive still does not take the edge off the future shock when they actually do.

The AV120 and AV140, without this module, are incredibly versatile and high capacity entertainment media Jukeboxes. With this module they are truly Portable Personal Video Jukebox Player/ Recorders as well as Audio jukeboxes player/ recorders.

The JBM Digital Video Recorder allows you to record from video source without having to go through the step of capturing that video to a computer via a video capture card. You can plug your Jukebox directly into a PAL TV, a SECAM TV, an NTSC standard TV via this module and record directly to your jukebox. Most VCRs can record from one of those sources, few can record from all of them.

TV is not the only Video input source that this Module can record from. The JBM Digital Video Recording device also allows you to capture video input directly from other possible input sources like VCRs (again, NTSC PAL or SECAM standards) and you can also record directly from Camcorders. Just plug in and record the video straight onto your AV Jukebox hard drive.

That's the unbelievably good side of the story. The downside (and there is one small one) is that the recorded video size is at screen size 340x240 pixels (PAL; 25 frames per second (FPS) ) or at screen size 304 x 224 pixels (NTSC; 30 FPS). That may seem small, but in truth it's about as big as the AV100 series can handle. This is not the case for the AV300 series. See the general AV 300 series notes for more.

This Video Recording Adapter is not limited by copyright locked video sources, such as some DVDs. International formats are no barrier either. If you can play it on a TV then this little wonder is able to record.

Buy the Archos AV120 or AV140 and JBM Digital Video Recorder Module together for £337.86 or £393.63 respectively (Money refunded after purchase).

This DVR100 module is bundled with the AV300 jukeboxes. E.g. Buy an AV320 and you get the DVR100 free.

Find out more general information about the Archos Multimedia Jukebox Recorder and its modules, including review and system requirements: click here.

Please note: this module does not work with the original MultiMedia Jukebox.