Conclusion

The PlayonHD! mini from AC Ryan overall really is a good product. To an attractive price you get a device which streams movies in Full HD quality onto your TV.
The userinterface is really simple only the popups during configuration can be a bit confusing because sometimes the don't contain all the text which should be in there. Regarding configuration and features there really are a lot of possibilities to configure the PlayonHD! individually. Also very good is that you can take the device out of the box and most of the settings are already as would have configured them yourself. If you for example want to get an IP adress from your router you'll just have to navigate into the corresponding menu and the PlayonHD! mini does everything by itself.

There are lots of possibilities to watch a movie, listen to music or browse fotoalbums with PlayonHD! mini. In most cases the works really fine. The only exception in our case occured with a Windows 7 system that was configured for a homegroup. Furthermore also the playback of file located on a USB stick or an external hard drive works perfectly well.

If you're looking for a media player which fit into your living room then the PlayonHD! mini is definitely worth a try. The easy setup, the fact that it produces no noise and that it support almost every single video format out there makes it an interesting candiate.

: p.graf@ocaholic.ch : Fabian Niederer, f.niederer@ocaholic.ch und Marc Büchel, m.buechel@ocaholic