I have been scanning the market for a media player that fits to my requirements and suddenly I found the box I would like to have: AVX-600 from AV Industries.

Please read the spec below. I found the spec at an Italian DVD forum (dated Nov 2003) and I do not know how true it is. But if the player can do what they say in the spec I really would like to have it.

After some intensive days, scanning Internet for information I still have the following fundamental questions:
  • AVX-600 – Does it exist? Have you seen it? Where can I buy it? If they had the comment Coming Soon in November 2003 it should have been released a long time ago. The last thread in this forum about AVX-600 is from December last year.
  • AV Industries – Do they exist? Do they have a web page? (http://www.avindustries.net is for sale)
  • I do not have to be Einstein to understand that AV Industries no longer exist and that AVX-600 never left the design stage but are there anyone on this forum who can give me some details about what happened?
  • Do you know and can you recommend any AVAILABLE product with the same specification as AVX-600?

AVX-600 DivX®-Certified DVD Player - COMING SOON!

The AVX-600 is a new breed of consumer set-top DVD players in the sense that it is DivX® and MPEG 4 enabled. What this means is that you can download a wide variety of DivX® movies from the internet, or take your existing movie collection and convert it to DivX®, and watch them all on your television set. You can even burn CD-Rs and DVD-Rs with multiple content types, such as MP3s and .AVI files. Custom playlists are also supported. With its spacious built in Hard Disk Drive, you can pause live TV, record your favorite TV shows directly to MPEG4 much like using a VCR. Built in USB 2.0 allows you to quickly transfer media files from your computer to the built in hard drive, or transfer from the X-600 to your computer for storage, editing, and burning. The built in ethernet allows you to stream media content directly from your computer without the hassle of having to burn them to CD-R or DVD-R first. With the optional Wireless 802.11g module, you can stream content from your Mac or PC without the hassles of wires.

To make the best even better, built in card readers for Secure Digital, Memory Stick, Compact Flash, and MMC allow you to play any supported media format directly from your storage cards. Sharing your digital photos and presenting slideshows has never been easier!

Supports Mac OS X and Windows XP only.

Features:
Complete compatibility ranging from DVD-R/DVD+R/MP3/ DivX®/ MPEG4/VCD/SVCD/ CVD/DVD/ JPEG/WMA/WMV and is both NTSC and PAL compliant.

Supports DivX® version 3.11, 4.02 through 5.02

-ESS Chipset
-120 GB Hard Disk
-Memory Card Browser: Supports Compact Flash, SD Card, Memory Stick, Multimedia Card
-Component Video
-S-VIDEO
-Composite Video
-RGB Out
-Scart Jack
-Optical Out
-DTS Output
-5.1 Channel Surround Sound
-10bit Digital Video Processing
-24-Bit / 96kHz Digital Audio Processing
-Supports 1:1, 4:3, and 16:9 video
-Earphone / Line out Jack. Built-in microphone.
-Supports maximum DivX® resolution of 720x576
-USB 2.0
-10/100 Base-T Ethernet
-Optional Wireless 802.11g module
-Supports Parental controls
-Has On Screen Display
-Karaoke Functions
-Kodak Picture CD Playback
-430 x 48 x 300 mm
-1 year manf. warranty
-USB 2.0 cable, Instructional Manual. Audio & Video cables, remote control.
-Free software and firmware updates available from www.avindustries.net

(fonte: http://www.avindustries.net/ )