iBOOD: AC Ryan Playon!HD with 2TB €149+post

byte

Seems a good deal to me.


AC Ryan Playon!HD Greenlife 2TB - Full HD Network Media Player with 2TB HDD and Wireless N! « Back

• Brand: AC Ryan
• Type: Playon! HD ACR-PV73100-2.0TB with ACR-WN10001 Wireless Dongle
• Full HD Media Player with 2TB HDD
• Ideal as Network Media Center
• UPnP Media Streaming
• AV / Output: HDMI to 1080p interface1.3, Composite Video, Audio Composite, Y / Pb / Pr Video, SPDIF coaxial (digital audio), Toslink optical SPDIF (digital audio)
• 3 x USB2.0 (1x and 2x USB2.0A USB2.0B) for USB mass storage devices (hard drives, flash drives) Add ports with USB hubs, USB card readers
• LAN Ethernet 10/100Mbps Auto-Negotiation Built-in DHCP for Auto IP or IP manually
• Supported video formats: AVI / MKV / TS / TP / TRP / M2TS / MPG / MP4 / MOV / M4V / VOB / ISO / IFO / DAT / WMV / ASF / RM / RMVB / FLV resolution up to 720p / 1080i / 1080p / BD ISO
• Supported video codecs: MPEG-1 / MPEG-2 / MPEG-4 SP / ASP / AVC (H.264 | x264) / XviD / DivX / WMV9 (VC-1) / RealVideo 08.09.1910 (up to 720P)
• Supported video output: PAL / NTSC / 480p / 576p / 720p / 1080i 50Hz / 60Hz 1080i / 1080p 50Hz / 60Hz 1080p / 1080p 24FPS
• Supported audio formats: MP3 / MP2 / WMA / AAC / FLAC / WAV / OGG / PCM / LPCM / MS ADPCM / LC-AAC / HE-AAC / COOK / Lossless-RA
• Supported Audio Output: Stereo Dolby Digital AC3 5.1 (pass-through and downmix to stereo), Dolby Digital Plus (passthrough), DTS (pass-through and downmix to stereo), Dolby TrueHD (pass-through and downmix to stereo) AAC 7.1 (pass-through and downmix to stereo), FLAC
• Supported image formats: JPEG, HD JPEG / BMP / POISON / TIF / PNG
• Supported subtitles: SRT, SMI, SSA, IDX / SUB, SUB
• Supported character sets (required for subtitles): Unicode (UTF8), BIG5 (Traditional Chinese), Western, Turkish, Central European, Greek, Cyrillic, SE European, Hebrew
• Chipset: Realtek 1073DD +
• Video Upscaling: 480p, 576p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
• Cardreader for cards like SD, SDHC, MMC, MS, MS Pro.
• Regular firmware updates with new and unique features!
• Includes: 2x AA batteries, Remote control 1x, 1x AC Ryan FREE quality HDMI 1.3 cable (2m), 1x Composite A / V cable, 1x Y / Pb / Pr cable, 1x USB A to B Cable, 1x AC adapter, 1x Power Cord, 1x User
• Delivery: 7 – 10 working days
• Dimensions: 227 x165 x60 mm
• Weight with drive: 1.6 kg
• Legal Warranty: 2 years
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Price: € 149,95

Tragedy

Price is good(cheapest I could find it elsewhere in UK/RoI was for €185 on Komplett), however the forums are full of people unhappy with it.

missingtime

Two reviews here:
http://www.fudzilla.com/reviews/item/20851-acryan-playon-hd-reviewed
http://www.trustedreviews.com/A-C-Ryan-ACR-PV73100-Playon-HD-Media-Player_Peripheral_review

One says its noisy but the other says its ok. Other than that it gets great reviews. I wonder could you put xbmc on it?

Mixie

missingtime wrote: »

One says its noisy but the other says its ok. Other than that it gets great reviews. I wonder could you put xbmc on it?

In case you are unaware, you can get an AppleTV2 for less and put XBMC on it. The hardware is technically inferior I guess, and XBMC for iOS is a work-in-progress, but after replacing parts in my other system several times I opted for the fanless/noiseless/lower temp option of the ATV2. See the XBMC for iOS forum for details.

BArra

atv2 wont do 1080p though

love that turbo

Mixie wrote: »

In case you are unaware, you can get an AppleTV2 for less and put XBMC on it. The hardware is technically inferior I guess, and XBMC for iOS is a work-in-progress, but after replacing parts in my other system several times I opted for the fanless/noiseless/lower temp option of the ATV2. See the XBMC for iOS forum for details.

Yeah but you still need storage for your media.

tunner

Is it any good? Looking for something under 100€ with storage and the ability to play .mkv files

Tunner

missingtime

Gah! Im really tempted by this.

EDIT:

Just found these:

http://www.acryan.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=12144

http://www.acryan.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=8627&start=140

http://www.acryan.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=152&t=11754&start=340

http://www.acryan.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=152&t=10077&start=480

Maybe thats the rap of the cold spoon I needed....

Bat Fasterd

Think I'll give this a miss after the initial temptation.

There is a reason ibood tends to flog off stuff, sometimes.

Seems to have issues with MKV for a start.
For now I will just keep mu eye on this and see what the reviews are like.

http://xtreamer.net/prodigy/

glic83

ive never had an issue with any of the mkv's ive tried on my playon hd,and ive tried loads believe m8,down mixes dts audio for anyone thats not conecting to an amp great bit of kit for me but i do realise that plenty of others have had issues but for me its played everything i can throw at it

sk8gr8

i have it for almost 2 years now ( since back on the days when it was a 20-30 days waiting list on komplett)
never had a problem with it and played all the mkv, iso and rmvb just fine.
the only drawback is that the software for it didn't get so full of options and user friendly like xtreamer.
..otherwise, great piece of work! ( way above wdplayer or popcorn hour)

yop

Any one having issues ordering? Webpage is giving "An error has occured", have tried it on 2 different laptops here and 2 different browsers

glic83

afaik it was only on offer yesterday m8