A.C. Ryan Playon!HD2 media player
ACRyan isn’t as big a name as D-Link or some other extender devices, but they’ve been making a name for themselves with some pretty powerful units. Don’t forget, if you’re in the market or curious about these devices, we have our Media Player Comparison Guide for your reading pleasure.
Changes are more than minorly cosmetic, as the Playon!HD2, on top of the standard multi-card reader, now packs Gigabit Ethernet and a USB 3.0 port for speedy transfers from a network or a PC to the local hard-drive, though the company points out that the networking port is optimised for streaming high-definition content rather than data transfer. While both of these high-speed ports are advancements over 10/100 and USB 2.0, we note that mid-priced motherboards have been specifying these faster connects for more than a year now; A.C. Ryan has been behind the game. We’d like to see a regular USB 3.0 port included, to connect up an external hard-drive or USB stick.
I’m confused about the
I’m confused about the statement where they say the networking port is optimized for streaming rather than data transfer.
But from the article I don’t see it mentioning running a separate server that would stream the data to this box. I get the idea that you can either load your ISOs onto the drive in this box or play ISOs across the network. If that is the case it is reading a data file.
Maybe I don’t understand streaming in the sense of playing an ISO file from the network.
It is a pretty sharp looking box. I don’t think the article said if it would play .wtv files though.
PAPutzback wrote:I’m confused
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I’m confused about the statement where they say the networking port is optimized for streaming rather than data transfer.
But from the article I don’t see it mentioning running a separate server that would stream the data to this box. I get the idea that you can either load your ISOs onto the drive in this box or play ISOs across the network. If that is the case it is reading a data file.
Maybe I don’t understand streaming in the sense of playing an ISO file from the network.
It is a pretty sharp looking box. I don’t think the article said if it would play .wtv files though.
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I can’t comment on the networking piece, but i can *almost 100% guarantee* this guy won’t play WTV files. In all my research and reviews, I think i’ve found ONE box that was able to PLAY the WTV files, but without any audio. So given that it’s not called out specifically, I would put my money on it NOT working unfortunately.
Slight off-topic, Boxee Box
Slight off-topic, Boxee Box added support for WTV in the last update. Need to update the summary guide.