A.C. Ryan Playon! HD
My 2nd hoot from SITEX 2010 is the A.C. Ryan Playon! HD (S$349). It comes with a 2TB Samsung harddisk (Spinpoint F4EG) and free Wireless N Dongle. The reason I chose A.C. Ryan instead of other brands is because it can play almost all formats including RM & RMVB. I know Western Digital Live TV can’t play those formats.
The A.C. Ryan Playon! HD also supports NAS functionality and hence I will be off loading all my media stuffs into it from my NAS.
In terms of UI, it is simple and easy to use but I think the graphics element within the UI can be improved to make it more visually appealing.
The only complaint I have so far with the Playon HD is the network only supports 10/100Mbps which makes transferring files to it extremely slow. The speed I am getting for transferring files to Playon HD is only 5MB/s. I may switch to using the free Wireless N Dongle that comes with the Playon HD, at least it supports up to 300Mbps which is 3x faster than the wired option.
![Box Front](https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4113/5211146222_7ac5e43d9e_z.jpg)
![Box Back](https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5204/5211146584_46dd0e5e5c_z.jpg)
![Box Contents](https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5083/5210549289_cef1688859_z.jpg)
![Playon HD Front View](https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4153/5210551003_8197ffa9cd_z.jpg)
![Playon HD Back View](https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5049/5210545203_9d57fd36b4_z.jpg)
![Samsung HDD](https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5286/5210544877_5f0c226b45_z.jpg)
![UI](https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4088/5211145902_cb72064e21_z.jpg)