JXD, who has been producing some of the fugliest player to come out of China as of late, actually comes out punching with their JXD 980, it does sport a nice 4,3″ screen, certainly not a touch screen with all those buttons around it, but that’s not the important thing here.

What really gives this baby its kick is the Sunplus 8000 chipset at its core. which is a combination of a ARM926, DSP and 3D graphics accelerator all in one. The chip can playback, at a full 30fps, videos in upto 1280×720 resolution, you may really possible never need to convert your videos on this player. The high speed DDR cache allows for better transfer rates between the NAND flash and the SP8000 chip, so it won’t be bogged down with the same problem of the data transfer slowing video playback on RK2706 and JZ47xx chipset players.

In or Out, it doesn’t matter, the 980 can record video or you can output video on to your TV. The JXD 980 will also have the highest TV out resolution so far, at a TV out resolution at 720×480, you can experience your videos better than what has been previously been available, thats not all, the player come with a 2MP CMOS camera for still and digital video recording.

Ok this is a well packed player, with a serious punch, but will it be everything is seems to be, the problem with both JXD and Sunplus is that they never seem to really work on developing any sort of workable UI, half the time it just looks like they did all this R&D on the chip and then spent 5 minutes on the UI. Due to this Sunplus players in the past have never had a firmware that has ever been able to fully tap into the full power of their chip. So although on paper this player looks good, i have this feeling in the back of my head that we may see the same let down in the UI with the JXD 980.

Oh and apparantly the next player JXD is making, the 990, will have some sort of suprise.

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