AC Ryan Playon!HD Mini 2 Full HD Network Media Streamer Review

Others/Miscelleneous by stefan @ 2012-02-28

The Playon!HD Mini 2 Full HD Network Media Streamer from AC Ryan has a pretty small footprint and is able to stream multimedia content (videos, photos, music) right from our network; in case we have attached to it an USB Flash Drive or external HDD, we can play back the multimedia contents locally. The device can be also connected wirelessly to the network via an accessory sold separately.

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The User Interface Part I

After starting up the Playon!HD Mini2 with the remote, a splash screen will appear on the TV, confirming that the firmware is loading; the screen will go blank again for a few seconds and after that the main menu will appear:

 

 

 

The menu options are located in the top left corner and on the same screen we can find the connectivity icons, along with the “Recently Added Music” and “Recently Added Movies” sections, which become populated after the connected media has been scanned:

 

 

 

From the Shortcuts menu, we can access directly network resources like NASes, which can provide multimedia content:

 

 

 

The Movies menu shows the video files the streamer has found after the search is completed; the files can be shown in multiple layouts, as we will see later, by pressing the Menu button, to access additional options:

 

 

 

The Options tab in this menu allows us to sort and show the video content by type, name, size and so on; here we can also modify the view type (thumbnails, list or preview mode):

 

 

 

After selecting Preview mode, we will have a small video window on the left side, along with the list of videos on the right:

 

 

 

The List mode allows us to see the names of the files on the entire interface space:

 

 

 

After we start each video, the screen will go blank and the video will play in a couple of seconds:

 

 

 

During the video playback, we can perform some modifications regarding subtitles like size, position, color, regional settings:

 

 

 

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