Treasure Hunt: Win a 8GB, 4.3" Onda VX585 player!

[Binh@MyMPx]

Hi Jaygo,

There will be more competitions running this year and I hope to run it frequent so keep your eyes posted.

I'll also find out why you only show up with one post (you've posted more than one post right? ).

[knob]

Got the player today. Nice big screen, great for video, arrived safely from House of Dap.
Here's what you get:-


Extension cable for USB on the go.
Onda earphones.
Usb data cable.
Nicely printed, but in Chinese only! user instructions
Usb Charger Cable
Fancy Onda Cleaning cloth.

Will post more info when I try more things out

[Binh@MyMPx]

Thanks knob for letting us know that the player has arrived fine!
Look forward to the review!

[knob]

Well this is more of video player than an audio player.


It supports .srt subtitles if they are in the same folder and same name as the video.
So far tested .mp4 ,.mkv and .avi all played no problem.

Audio quality is good but there are one or 2 niggles with the interface.
It recognises id3 tags but they get chopped off if they are too long, I like to see a scroll.

No album art (should be standard by now) and the font is not good, but this what you get on all these chinese players.

So far,
Pros
Good video support.
Nice big screen.
Good viewing angle.
Seems good build quality.
Good audio quality
.srt subtitle support.
Standard mini usb for charging and transfer

Cons
No album art.
Usual poor font.
Only English and Chinese language support
Id3 don't scroll

Not tested usb OTG yet or HDMI out (need to get a mini hdmi adapter!)

I would recommend this for a video player, but if you are buying for audio then the interface is
not good even though the sound quality is.
I think this could be a great all round player if Onda had put a bit more effort into the firmware.
I have quite an assortment of videos so I think this will be my main Video player now.

Full Review Here:-
[Review] Onda VX585HD from HouseofDap.com

[Binh@MyMPx]

Thanks Knob for the review!
Can you also do me a favour and put your review in a new post into the [General Discussion] --> [Reviews] section of the forum please?
I think with the larger 4.3" screen it would be great video player (and more watchable than the 1.8" screen players for example). But yeh, I think it would also probably be too 'clunky' to be an audio player or something you want to carry with you to the gym or while jogging or bike riding....What do you think?

You couldn't post any more pictures of that player could you? I would be interested to see the quality of casing build of the player as well as I can see the screen quality looks really good.

[makd511]

good you got the player
i got hold of the vx575HD, more or less the same player but with higher res screen

if you want the HDMI cable OWNTA have them for about $6 ish and they are quite fast

does this player support remote?? if so they have some of those too

i tested OTG on the 575 (both players using the sochip sc8600 chip) its a bit picky but can work

for my tests the file support is better on the newer rockchips

unfortunately, dues to the race to 1080p and above these player have not been updated by onda, pretty much left to rot now even though they are but a few months old, i doubt you will see anything happening firmware wise, there is a basic beta firmware on ondas site but thats been it for the last few months

the state of the branded chinese players is a mess at the moment with new chips all claiming HD 1080p and more are coming out all over and thus players are being dropped before they hit the shelves, its worse than ever

anyway, you won it, its free and vidoes will play well on it

even though the 575 and 585 are the same chip the casing and UI are different so not sure where onda sourced these players from, on mine you can chooses doifferent audio tracks for videos or select to hide or show either external or embedded subs

congtats

[Binh@MyMPx]

Yeh, I agree. I have noticed that with the older MP4 players a few years ago, the players would be released and that's it! No more further updates to the firmware! Just get the player out the door, to the market and as long as it works, that's it.

They always advertise "firmware upgradable" but no new firmware gets released so it's pointless. I guess that's another big difference from a no-brand MP4 player from China to those branded players like Sony or iPods which do have firmware being released....... It's unfortunate but I guess it all comes down to $$$.

Most of these "MP4 manufacturers" are essentially "MP4 assemblers". They just buy the chipset, boards, memory chips and casing from different other manufacturers and assemble them, then sell them on. So the chipsets are manufactured from somewhere else and to get it upgraded, they have to pay and spend more money on development. So why when they can spend it on a new model player instead?