Sexy, compact and completely silent, the feature packed Mini is the must have media streamer for your digital lifestyle.

Launched earlier this year, the Playon!HD Mini is streamlined, compact, completely silent and equipped with the same specifications as the successful Playon!HD. The feature packed Mini automatically turns any attached USB storage device into a NAS device and offers more features than other media players in the same price bracket.

The Playon! Series supports all the most popular media formats including Blu-ray and DVD ISO. Users can catalogue and play movies by cover art with YAMJ, the most popular Movie Jukebox program, or create their own cover art and movie information directory with ThumbGen. Enjoy superior HD Audio with Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD to enhance the Playon! experience.

The Playon! brand encapsulates the technology required to fully engage with today’s digital lifestyle - cutting edge, creative, and superior functionality that enables users to engage with their favourite media content.

ü Plays MORE media formats

The Playon! series supports all the most popular video formats – MKV / H.264, WMV (VC-1), M2T / M2TS (Blu-ray), VOB (DVD), IFO (DVD), DVD ISO, Blu-ray ISO, AVI, MOV (QuickTime), Divx, Xvid, TS, TP, TRP, MPG, MP4, RM/RMVB (Real Media), AVCHD, DAT, ASF, FLV and more – you name it! Unlike a computer where you have to hunt and install all kinds of different codecs yourself, Playon!HD is purpose-built for media with all the necessary codecs already built-in. Simply turn it on and Playon!

ü Blu-ray & DVD ISO with navigation menu

The Playon! series supports all DVD ISO files with full DVD functions including menu navigation, audio / subtitles selection and all the extras. With Blu-ray ISO, a lighter set of features is supported, namely chapter navigation and audio / subtitles selection.

ü MORE Subtitles formats and features

The Playon! series supports subtitles in DVD ISO and Blu-ray ISO, plus subtitle formats such as SRT, SMI, SSA, IDX/SUB, SUB, ASS, PGS. Both internal and external subtitles are supported.

ü One press Folder playback

No longer do you need to browse folders for your DVD’s, Blu-rays and videos, the Playon! series allows you to press play on the folder and automatically starts playing your movie!

ü Easy access to your media catalogue with Media Library

The Playon! series Media Library function sources all the media files on your hard disk and catalogues them alphabetical, making it easy to browse and search for your favourite media.

ü Browse your Photos in Thumbnail View

The Playon! Series Thumbnail view provides a user friendly overview of your photo collection. Browse an extensive collection of photo formats JPEG, HD JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIF, PNG via a grid wall of thumbnails.

ü Enjoy Photo moments in a Slideshow

Enjoy and share your favourite photos with friends and family with the Playon! series photo slideshow. Bring to life captured moments with transition effects and background music on your big screen TV, all at the touch of your remote control

ü FLAC - Quality music in its original form

The Playon! series supports FLAC, a lossless audio format where the audio is compressed in its original form without any loss of data or quality, making FLAC the favourite format for storing and archiving original music. Enjoy FLAC / FLAC Multichannel / FLAC 7.1 on your Playon!

ü Plays MORE music formats

The Playon! series plays more music formats including FLAC / FLAC Multichannel / FLAC 7.1, MP3, WMA, WAV, AAC / HE-AAC / LC-AAC / AAC Multichannel / AAC 7.1, Ogg Vorbis, Cook, PCM, AC3, DTS

ü The Playon! series only uses licensed technology

Every Playon! incorporates all necessary licensing for patented technology used – HDMI, AAC, MP3, WMA, WMV, MPEG, SHOUTcast – this ensures that your enjoyment of these technologies is guaranteed and will not be disrupted.

ü MORE worldwide text character types

As the world gets smaller and people become more multilingual, the extensive character types that the Playon! series supports ensures that you will be able to use more languages in filenames and subtitles - Unicode (UTF8), Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Western, Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, Central European, SE European, Greek, Turkish, Cyrillic (Russian), Hebrew, Arabic, Icelandic.

ü Convenience of HD Audio Downmix to Stereo

The Playon! series is capable of downmixing multichannel audio (such as Dolby, DTS) into stereo output via the Composite or HDMI output. Especially handy when connected to the Stereo speakers of the TV. 

ü Fastest wireless streaming with Playon! Wireless-N

Enjoy the convenience of wirelessly streaming your media to and from your Playon! and computers. The optional Playon! Wireless-N USB adaptor acts as a wireless transmitter and receiver. Stylishly compact, it comes with a FREE desktop stand so you can place it where the wireless signal is at its best quality for a better streaming experience.

ü NFS network file system for advanced users

With NFS network file system, advanced users are able to enjoy faster network performance with their other NFS-enabled computers and storage

ü UPnP Universal Plug -n-Play

Streaming from UPnP-enabled systems becomes more user-friendly. Simply enable UPnP on your computer´s Windows Media Player (or other UPnP-enabled software) and stream your media library effortlessly to your Playon! as an organized library. Look out for UPnP logos and discover the wide selection of UPnP software and devices that are able to stream to your Playon!

ü Use your Mac external drives

For Mac users, you´ll be pleased to know that unlike other media players, your Playon! can play all the media stored on your Mac formatted external drives.

ü SHOUTcast Internet Radio

SHOUTcast is the original and most popular Internet Radio system, with the largest selection of stations and choices. Your Playon! has more SHOUTcast features than other media players. Now you can search from the thousands of stations, list them by Country, or type in a URL address of the station. AC Ryan is an official licensee of SHOUTcast.

ü Internet Feeds

Enjoy internet feeds like Picasa and Flickr and with Meta-feeds, you can easily add your favourite feed links to Metafeeds online.

ü Browse catalogue and play by Cover Art with YAMJ

Simply install YAMJ on your computer and organize your Playon!HD movie collection into a library catalogue complete with cover art and movie information. YAMJ is a community developed project and has since become the most popular Movie Jukebox. AC Ryan is the only media player brand to work jointly with the YAMJ developers, delivering you the integrated experience of YAMJ Movie Jukebox on every Playon!

ü Browse and play directories by movie info with ThumbGen

ThumbGen runs on your PC and lets you generate beautiful artwork of your movies. Specify the information you want, select photos, design your favourite style and ThumbGen automatically creates your movie art.

ü NZB User Modification

While not supported natively in the shipping Playon! players, technically confident users can hop onto the AC Ryan community to learn how to modify the Playon! with an installation of NZB to enable Usenet downloads!

ü Active Community

Your Playon! comes with the largest online community of friends, users and developers. Founded as a community driven company from its roots, AC Ryan actively supports the community and encourages the community to discuss, develop and Playon!

ü Most Active Firmware Development

AC Ryan consistently release cutting edge, firmware updates with new and unique features that maximise the functioning and longevity of your player.  

ü Advanced Silent Passive Cooling

Playon!HD Mini is equipped with silence by design. A passive heatsink keeps the processor cool to ensure stable high performance when playing your Full HD media, all in total silence.

ü Available conveniently as streaming-only

Playon!HD Mini is compact and sexy, designed for your pure streaming pleasure. Stream via wired network or optional wireless network, or play your audio/video/photos from USB disks and external hard drives.

ü World’s First Full HD media player powered by Realtek processor

The first Playon!HD was launched and shipped on 11 June 2009, World’s First Full HD media player powered by Realtek processor. Playon!HD innovated ignited a new generation of Full HD media players. The first and original Playon!HD is still today’s best media player, confidently backed by the best development team serving up frequent firmware updates making your Playon!HD and Playon!HD Mini a new media player with every firmware.

ü MORE Awards than any other

The Playon! series has earned the respect of the industry’s critics across all continents earning more awards than any other media player.