Hardware player with HDMI

I am looking for a good player (w/ or w/o HDD) that can output both SD and HD using HDMI and has a broader sprectrum of supported codecs and containers. I've checked last week a Trekstor Antarius (LAN+USB, no HDD) as it were a promising device, but ... According to the specifications it could do 1080p - however it was just another marketing lie, as it outputs 1080p only by scaling SD and 720p HD and not by supporting true FullHD. It has support for flac and ogg, which no other player known to me had. Any ideas? Recording parts are useless for me and raise unnecessary the price.

If you post a short sample I can try it on the WD TV.

Some (all?) 1080p25 camcorder files are in fact 1080i25 (50 fields) and thus would fall under 1920x1080i30. Standard european 1080i HDTV would fall under the above too.

DGSplit a minute or so. I live in PAL land, but I don't think there are different version.

at least mine WD HD play everything 25 and 50 fps - to be honest i've not tried only 720i50 ie 100 fields per sec. I live on PAL land to - the issue with WD HD is that in auto mode NTSC derivative are preferred (ie 30fps instead of 25fps - but You can choose manually video output mode)

Supposingly one has the standard frame sizes (eg 720x576 bzw. 1920x1080), does the box automatically send their native resolutions through HDMI? I mean 720x576 as 720x576 and not upscaled to 1920x1080 (I don't want to click through the menus to set the output resolution) ... The reason being that my TV has a very good scaler ...

Popcornhour or a (3rd party version of it ... there are many, i have a "iobox 100HD") Also has frequent firmware updates to support new features and a wonderful support community!

I'm currently using an ...

I bought an Xtreamer after SeeMoreDigital's posts a few months ago. 100eur with no HDD. You can watch through Wifi, USB and internal HDD SATA. I watch through Wifi (up to 20 Mbps-video-bitrate files). If you want to playback original BluRays from your PC Xtreamer supports 802.11n (50-60 Mbps) You can watch youtube videos as well from your xtreamer/wifi.

Yes the Popcorn hour a-110 or c-200 will do that, if you go to settings and set TV OUT to auto (only need to do it once), it will simply send whatever video image you are playing be it HD or SD in its original Resolution. So your TV can do all the scaling after that.