Over at imp3 a huge analysis of the Ainol V8000HDG has been carried out.
Below the summary of what they made of the 5-inch, H.264/AVC 1280 x 720px player with HDMI output.
The player, which Ainol describe as the “perfect high definition package,” has all the audio and video capabilities you’d need as well as OTG connectivity and all the mandatory peripheries such as FM radio, clock, calendar and built in microphone.
The screen supports 16 million colours and for those without HDMI for the TV-Out the player also carries the regular component and composite AV outputs.

See the full summary after the break.

The Unboxing

This is a pretty standard array of goodies bundled with the player, the most notable and impressive being the inclusion of the HDMI cable, a regularly left out piece of kit across the board from PS3s to PCs.

The Player

Black and clean is order of the day with a matte finish to the plastic casing. The buttons and outputs seem to be well concealed with them adorning the top and sides of the player.

The Screen

According to the report, for onboard viewing the 5 inch screen at 800 x 480 resolution, “has a delicate look, but also a relatively high brightness.” Colours are said to be bold and nice but the viewing angles are more standard rather than anything to write home about.

UI

The main menu is given in a Vista-style sidebar along the right hand side of the screen and includes a battery countdown timer and calender functions. All told the UI is supposedly pretty intuitive and useable.

Audio

The player supports ID3 tagging for music and that navigation is neat and functional, rather than groundbreaking or flashy.
Lyrics are supported too but need to be imported in a seperate file.
A number of playback options are available including playlists, play speed (not sure how often this one would be used), the usual repeat/random settings and preset EQs.
The V8000HDG supports MP3, WMA, WAV, AAC, OGG, APE and FLAC but there are limitations. Their tests found it only supports WMA audio files up to a sampling rate of 44.1KHz, bit rate 81Kbps VBR compressed WMA format files, as well as the sampling rate of 44.1KHz, bit rate 32Kbps CBR compressed WMA format files; and OGG audio files only supports sample rates up to 44.1KHz, bit rate 128Kbps CBR compressed OGG format files.
Further tests and figures can be found in the link below.

Video

The semi-transparent playback interface covers zoom mode, play mode etc and despite being clean it’s criticised for being too simple, lacking the file name display etc.
On the whole, through their extensive tests playback was looked upon favorably although in most formats the promised 1280 x 720 resolution didn’t play, the maximum being 960 x 540.
1280 x 720 playback was finally achieved through RMVB.

TV-OUT

As you’d expect, a clear distinction was noted between component out and HDMI. The remote control navigated the menus well but only up to a distance of 2 meters.

Image Viewer, Text Reader & FM Radio

Again the navigation through these features is the basic text-based interface and it doesn’t offer thumbnail views.
Image files supported are BMP, JPG, GIF and PNG but it seems like this was the biggest let down of the player with selected images intermittenly displayed as black.
As far as the text reader goes, the only feature on offer is bookmark.
The FM radio didn’t fare well either with difficulty finding a steady clear signal, especially indoors.

Summary

On the whole, the V8000HDG was looked upon favorably with the RMBV decoding and HDMI output being its best points but it seems there’s still work to be done.

[Via imp3]