I recently reviewed AC Ryan's PlayOn!HD2, which is the bigger brother of today's entry that worked out heaps when it was young and grew to be a huge, goliath football-playing Media Player. This is the smaller sibling who stayed inside playing video games and never picked up a weight in its life.

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Does this make it bad? No. The Mini-variant of the PlayOn!HD2 range is virtually the same as the bigger brother, sans the ability to install a 3.5-inch HDD, USB 3.0 and does not include a fan; it's passively cooled.

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AC Ryan heeft een release uitgebracht van de firmware voor de PlayOn HD en PlayOn HD Mini. De AC Ryan PlayOn! HD Mini heeft dezelfde specificaties als zijn grote broer, maar dan in een kleinere. Nov 16, 2012  Here you can download ACRyan Playon!HD2 and Mini Firmware v9.5.3.r7317 for the Playon!HD2 and Playon!HD2 Mini local from Guru3D's servers. ACRyan EU recently went bankrupt.

The PlayOn!HD Mini 2 player is quite small, light and portable; more than small enough to take on holiday with you with an external USB 2.0 HDD for some media playing in the hotel/motel/caravan or wherever you choose to stay. It feels over half as light as the bigger brother and definitely over half as small. It's petite.

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Looking at the device, it's a piano-black finish. If you're looking directly at the unit, you're graced with the AC Ryan logo as well as the power button. That's all the front gets - the back of course has all the inputs, USB connections and power.

The UI is still the same as the HD2, powered by AC Ryan's gorgeous PlayOn! GUI 2.0. This is one of the best features of the player. The UI is absolutely gorgeous and since my review on the HD2, it had become my default media player until I started testing out the Mini.

The PlayOn!HD Mini 2 supports everything the bigger brother does; video codec, audio codec, Full HD streaming, Gigabit Ethernet, GUI 2.0 - but it's just tiny. Mini is really the perfect word that AC Ryan could've chosen. It almost reminds me of the girls that have those t-shirts on that are quite small (the girls, not the shirts you dirty person). The shirt reads 'I'm not short, I'm fun-sized.'

AC Ryan, feel free to send me a $10,000 cheque for that slogan. It would look great on the box of the Mini player! The Mini really is an amazing little box - it's totally silent thanks to its passively-cooled design. The one gripe I had with the HD2 was the noisy fan. It was noisier than everything else in my HT room; the TV, amp, heck, my 4-month old baby makes less noise when watching TV!

I don't know if it's just me, but my wife agreed with me on this point; the Mini player 'feels' faster, more responsive to the remote control. The bigger brother (after more use) seemed to 'lag', where the Mini just powers through. The remote seems much more responsive in tasks too, be it turning the player on, or using up/down to navigate through the (I'll mention it again) gorgeous UI.

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When testing the Mini player, I thought I'd delve deeper into the abyss that is the UI. I started messing around with different layouts for my videos, allowing the metadata to take control and show me those beautiful TV folder art. The Mini didn't miss a beat.

It flowed through everything I did, changing it to thumbnail, preview, list, icons all without breaking a sweat. I tested the same videos that I did on my previous review and it played them absolutely identically to the bigger brother, so I won't bother wasting precious bandwidth for you to read it over again.

All products have to have a wife-acceptance factor. My wife loves the Mini (what does that say about me?!) compared to the larger player. Noise was a big factor for our lounge room. Yes, it was only a small fan, but it was an annoying one. The Mini makes no noise at all which is a huge plus for the wife-acceptance factor.

One big factor is setup. I'm a fan of 'hurry up and go', and all I did was plug this up (power, Ethernet and HDMI), turn it on, set up my video and audio (two settings) and start browsing my network to get into my NAS. Done. This is how it should be - a Mini player, looks great, GUI is amazingly beautiful and it's a very easy task to setup. It's nearly Mum proof!

Should you buy the PlayOn!HD Mini 2? Yes, yes you should. If you don't already have a media player then I would highly recommend the Mini. If you already have one that is getting quite old and doesn't have say, HDMI, or it has a UI that is bland, then definitely look into getting the Mini.

Keygen rene 2. I had a great time with it and I think I've found a new replacement for my HT - the Mini is getting a high recommendation from me.

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Pros

• Fast boot time
• Internet radio support
• Extensive format support

Key Specifications

• Review Price: £87.09
• Remote control
• Internet radio support
• Extensive format support

Dutch company A.C. Ryan has certainly been prolific in its attempts to create the perfect media player. Pre-2009, models like the Network DVR lacked high definition capabilities, however the Playon!HD we reviewed last year offered not only HD but more features than any other media player we had looked at. Unfortunately, the Playon!HD was also large, heavy and not exactly silent – all of which prevented it from taking the media player crown. Now A.C. Ryan is back with the Playon!HD Mini, the “little brother of thePlayon!HD”.
A.C. Ryan’s latest certainly holds a lot of promise. It supposedly offers the same features as the Playon!HD in a smaller (151 x 102 x 42mm compared to its predecessor’s 227 x 166 x 60mm), lighter (600g versus 1.5kg), quieter and cheaper package! What’s not to like? Well first off the bundle isn’t quite as extravagant as its predecessors, consisting of a more modest HDMI cable, composite video and stereo audio cable, power brick and remote.
The remote is still the same model as found with the Playon!HD, which if you read our review you’ll know we weren’t overly enthusiastic about. It has its plus points: it’s large and comfortable; uses AA batteries that could be exchanged for rechargeables, and has colour-coded rubberised buttons that offer pleasant feedback. Unfortunately a few layout quirks make it less than intuitive. For example, the tiny play, stop and volume buttons are clustered together between large track control buttons, making it too easy to accidentally stop your video when you only meant to turn up the volume.

Onto the device itself, as one might expect this is essentially a smaller version of the Playon!HD. And that’s no bad thing, as aside from its size the original was a pretty attractive box. In fact, with the few design tweaks A.C. Ryan has implemented we would go so far as to say that the Playon!HD Mini is probably the most attractive media player we’ve reviewed, if not as cute as the tiny Western Digital WDTV Live HD.
A.C. Ryan has sensibly refrained from the completely glossy shells so many others use. The Mini has matte, textured sides and the only glossy section is the front, with its Playon!HD logo illuminated in red when in standby or blue when the device is active. Below this is a flush power button, which is the only control present so you’ll always need the remote to hand to operate the Playon!HD Mini. One small downside is that the unit has hard plastic feet rather than the usual rubber ones, so you’ll need to be careful if putting it on surfaces that scratch easily.

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