The good people over at iMP3 have broken down the MP4 market in terms of the chips that the various players use, listing their pros, cons and general feature sets. This is an in-depth article which you really should read, but we'll give you the gist over here.
Telechips, credited with being integral to the original Mp4 HD capability push, and their TCC8901 chip is which is based upon ARM11 architecture and clocked at 600MHz is given a generally good appraisal, while the Sochip SC9800 is regarded as the ultimate chip for 1280P decoding. The Amlogic AML8726-H is said to have good 1080p video playback as well as supporting Flash and OTG in a more than adequate capacity. The Rockchip RK2806 receives commendable appraisal, and is compared to a 720p master but therein also lies its weakness,
I finally found some time to get the Window G85 review done. Overall the player is very nice, the UI does have a few bugs, but for the most part the UI is quite click and responsive to touch inputs on the resistive touch screen. Window have done a very good job on the screen that is being used on this player, it really displays images and videos very well and has really good viewing angles.
The Bmorn BM889 use the RK2806 SoC, however it is one of the new generation players to use a flash based UI. This and similar players, use the flash based UI to get a better interactive feel to the player, it also allows the UI to be far more dynamic and slick than what you normally expect from a China PMP.
I am well impressed with how the flash UI works, although its not perfect and the touch screen has some hang ups, its overall a sound pmp.
Recommended as a good all round device.
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Suprise, suprise, Onda has announded a new 4.3" touch screen player, the VX530Touch. Needless to say that this was pretty much expected and not that much of a suprise. The VX530Touch will probably have the same UI styling as the Vi20 model and even the same hardware, apart from the screen. The VX530Touch will carry a 4.3" touch screen, but i am not sure if it will have a 800x480 or 480x272 resolution screen, but if i had to bet, i would go for the lower res.
The Onda VX530touch will run on the Rockchip RK2806 processor, it will be able to decode videos that are upto 1280x720 and playback AVI, RMVB, MKV, VOB, DAT, FLV, MOV and MPG video formats. It will support MP3 and WMA formats as well as APE and FLAC lossless audio formats. THe VX530touch will be out in 4GB and 8GB, no word on pr
I was confirmed that the RAmos T9HD is out of production a little while back and i am pretty sure the this is permanent, but it does look like RAmos is producing this as an OEM. Hallods of Japan will be introducing the eT4300, which is essentially the T9HD. So if you're in Japan and can find this, you will be in luck, the RAmos T9HD has one of the nicest screens i have seen.
You can expect the eT4300 to have the same specs as the RAmos T9HD; RK2806 based, 4.3" capactive touch screen, 720p decoding, multiple video and audio file format support. No word on pricing, but i expect it to be a lot more expensive than what the T9HD was going for.
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I have to say Onda has slightly redeemed themselves with the Vi20, they have gone back to the basics and provided a solid touch screen player using one of my favorite media processors, the RK2806.
The player is in many ways similar to the RAmos T11RK, it has a similar interactive touch based UI, but the Vi20 has a HDMI port and supports USB OTG, both a first for RK2806 based players.
This is a good all round player, good sound and video playback - it supports upto 720p resolution videos.
Just to note the max video out resolution is 720p and not 1080p.
There has been much speculation on what exactly was the difference between the RK2728 chip and rockchips new generation chip, the RK2806, i think i have my answer now. Simply put the RK2728 chip is made to used in players that were designed around the RK2706 chip, factories only need to change the chip, without changing any other hardware and load up a newer fimrware.
This really isn't anything new, this pretty much was the same for players using the older RK2608 chip that then started using the RK2706 chip. It didn't happen with the RK2806 chip as this required different additional hardware to be present for it to properly work (in particular more SDRAM), i guess it just took Rockchip a little longer to develop a chip capable of doing the same as the RK2806 but based around the RK2706
The RAmos T9HD is quite similar to that of the original T9, however this version uses the new RK28065 media processor.
The UI is nice, but it has some qwerks and some features that i wouldn't even recommend trying. However for all those short comings the screen quality coupled with the RK2806 processor make this one very nice video player.
The RAmos T9HD is available from our online store.
The T8HD use the same body design as the old T8, however the T8HD comes packed with the more powerful RK2806 media processor. The T8HD has a 4.3" touch screen which support a max resolution of 480x272, about half the resolution as its bigger brother, the T11RK.
Overall the T8HD has a very nice form factor, a nice UI and very good video playback, its certainly a player worth considering.
The RAmos T8HD is a player with a similar face, well interface, the T8HD is basically a 4.3" version of the T11RK, it literally uses the very same user interface. There is one other change in the hardware from the T11Rk, the T8HD only has a 480 x 272 resolution screen, the T11RK has a 800 x480 resolution screen.
The T8HD use the same body design as the older RAmos T8, there really is no difference between the two, even their weight is almost identical, however the quality of the actual screen seems to be better, even though its only 480 x 272 resolution, images do look nice on the 4.3" screen and it has fairly decent viewing angles.
The UI is exactly the same as we saw on the RAmos T11RK, so you can expect nice kinetic scrolling as well as album art music browsing. The T8HD has the
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