Teclast has announced their C500HD, what we are calling the wonder bread of media players, not only will it carry a high res 800×480, 5.0″ screen, it will also be able to play H.264 videos, as well as support 720p for AVI and RMVB formats. Now this is not the first player that we have come across to announce HDMI output, Ainol announced one of their new upcoming players to also have this player and as is the nature of the China media player companies, most likely the C500HD will be based on the same SoChip media processor found on the new Ainol players.

If we stand correct that this will use the same chip as the Ainol V6000HDS and Cube H100, then we can probably expect very good TV out quality and with the HDMI output we can expect it to be even better. However this new media chipset seems to be having some teething issues, so we are a bit apprehensive at how this player will be in the end, if the processor continues to get a steady stream of updates to fix its many bugs, then it could work out to be a very good player indeed.

One upside of Teclast joining the clone pack with Ainol and Cube is that Teclast tend to use better quality screens than the other makers tend to use, so lets hope they keep to using quality screens on this player as they have done with their other players.

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