---
title: "A.C. Ryan Playon! HD"
date: 2010-11-28 00:02:48
permalink: https://lesterchan.net/blog/2010/11/28/a-c-ryan-playon-hd/
author: Lester Chan
excerpt: "My second hoot from SITEX 2010 is the A.C. Ryan Playon! HD at S$349, bundled with a 2TB drive and a free Wireless N dongle. I chose it because it plays nearly every format, including RM and RMVB."
categories:
  - "Media Player & Television"
tags:
  - "2010"
  - A.C. Ryan
  - hard drive
  - HD
  - HDMI
  - media player
  - Playon
  - Samsung
  - Sitex
---

My 2nd hoot from SITEX 2010 is the A.C. Ryan Playon! HD (S$349). It comes with a [2TB Samsung harddisk (Spinpoint F4EG)](https://www.seagate.com/sg/en/support/by-product/samsung/) 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)](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4113/5211146222_7ebcb1db1f_o.jpg "Box Front")

[![Box Back](https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5204/5211146584_46dd0e5e5c_z.jpg)](https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5204/5211146584_5ec90d2940_o.jpg "Box Back")

[![Box Contents](https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5083/5210549289_cef1688859_z.jpg)](https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5083/5210549289_1f4c6950cc_o.jpg "Box Contents")

[![Playon HD Front View](https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4153/5210551003_8197ffa9cd_z.jpg)](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4153/5210551003_7f435ce860_o.jpg "Playon HD Front View")

[![Playon HD Back View](https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5049/5210545203_9d57fd36b4_z.jpg)](https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5049/5210545203_d2567930c3_o.jpg "Playon HD Back View")

[![Samsung HDD](https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5286/5210544877_5f0c226b45_z.jpg)](https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5286/5210544877_193f70be66_o.jpg "Samsung HDD")

[![UI](https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4088/5211145902_cb72064e21_z.jpg)](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4088/5211145902_e81003bdd8_o.jpg "UI")