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In the past year we have looked at a number of products from AC Ryan’s PlayOn! range which have all impressed us, earning some of our most prestigious awards over the last year. So when AC Ryan offered us their latest product for testing, we couldn't refuse!
Today we are going to look at one of the more budget friendly products from AC Ryan the PlayOn! HD Mini 2. This replaces the original HD Mini that we reviewed a while back, bringing a number of updates which should improve the user experience.
These include YouTube playback and access to other social media platforms such as Facebook and Picasa.
Features
- More format support
- NAS Functionality
- Silent Cooling
- Unique User Interface
- Engage Social Media
- Smart Content Management
- Gigabit Wired Networking
Specification
| A/V Out | HDMI 1.3 interface up to 1080p Composite Audio / Video Y/Pb/Pr Video SPDIF Optical TOSLink (digital audio) |
| Storage Supported | USB HDD, USB sticks and other USB Mass Storage Devices File Systems: FAT, FAT32, NTFS, EXT3 Network drives: USB2.0 PORTS: 2 x USB 2.0 (USB-A) |
| USB Supported | Add ports with USB hubs, USB card readers 2x USB 2.0 (USB-A) |
| Network – Wired | Gigabit |
| Network – Wireless (Optional) |
Wireless WLAN 802.11b/g/n 300Mbps via USB WLAN adaptor (optional, not incl.) Supports WLAN security WEP, WPA Supports WLAN Peer-to-Peer (connects wireless without router) |
| Network – Wireless Built-In (Selected models only) |
Wireless-N via a PCI-e port with dual antenna |
| Video Formats Supported | AVI / MKV / TS / TP / TRP / M2TS / MPG / MP4 / MOV / M4V / VOB / ISO / DVD-ISO / IFO / DAT / WMV / ASF / RM / RMVB / FLV resolution up to 720p / 1080i / 1080p / BD-ISO |
| Video Codecs Supported | MPEG-1 / MPEG-2 / MPEG-4 SP/ASP/AVC (H.264 | x264) / XviD / DivX / WMV9 (VC-1) / RealVideo 8/9/10 (up to 720P) |
| Video Output Supported | PAL / NTSC / 480p / 576p / 720p / 1080i 50Hz / 1080i 60Hz / 1080p 50Hz / 1080p 60Hz / 1080p 24FPS |
| Audio Formats Supported | MP3 / MP2 / WMA / AAC / FLAC / WAV / OGG Vorbis / PCM / LPCM / MS-ADPCM / LC-AAC / HE-AAC / COOK / RA-Lossless |
| Audio Output Supported | Stereo
Dolby Digital AC3 5.1 (passthrough & downmix to stereo) Dolby Digital Plus 7.1 (passthrough) Dolby TrueHD 7.1 (passthrough & downmix to stereo) DTS Digital Surround 5.1 (passthrough & downmix to stereo) AAC 7.1 (passthrough & downmix to stereo) FLAC |
| Image Formats Supported | JPEG, HD JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIF, PNG |
| Subtitles Format Supported | SRT, SMI, SSA, IDX/SUB, SUB |
| Network – Wirless Built-In (Needed for subtitles) |
Unicode (UTF8), BIG5 (Traditional Chinese), Western, Turkish, Central European, Greek, Cyrillic, SE European, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese, Thai |
| Power | DC-IN 5V Standby: 0,3 W / Active: 8,2 W |
| Cooling | No Fan (Advanced Fanless Cooling for processor) |
