Firmware Update: AC Ryan PlayOn! HD 7.0.6 r2388

Media players come in different shapes and sizes. The prices for entry-level models and both the ease of use and the possibilities that are constantly improving contribute to a major advance within the living room where these devices are working. AC Ryan serves the lower end of the market with its Playon!HD and offers a player for a reasonable price that can play the most common media formats without any problems. In addition, if equipped with an internal 3.5″ hard drive, it can also serve as a NAS server and BitTorrent downloader. For more information about the PlayOn! HD, we refer you to the GoT. Last Tuesday AC Ryan released firmware version 7.0.6 r2388 released and its changelog looks like this:

What’s new in version 7.0.6 r2388

• Add HDMI LPCM Multi-Channel support
• Add DTS-HD Master Audio pass-through support (Playon!HD decodes internally to PCM)
• Add Dolby Digital Plus pass-through support
• Add 16:10 option for Aspect Ratio
• Add Ken Burns effect for image viewing
• Add Seamless Playback for image viewing
• Add torrent download function in Home menu
  • Place .torrent file in any folder and press Menu to select “Add the torrent”
  • On-Screen real-time download status

  Press Menu button on selected torrent download to select priority level
  Press Stop button on selected torrent download to Stop torrent or Stop torrent and Delete file

• On screen client setup
• Add Internet Feeds function in Home menu
  • YouTube streaming
    [Due to legal implications, this function is temporarily on hold]
    [Resource]
  • Picasa photo album
  • RSS news feeds
  • flickr
• Add search function for internet radio
• Add WEP (HEX) and WEP (ASCII) option for wireless security
• Add mounting of attached USB storage present in network
• Add BD-ISO playback (more BD-ISO functions in development)
• Add NFS support for mapping of network folders
• Add Screen size calibration to fit video to screen
  • Press ZOOM IN button of the remote control during playback to fit to defined screen size
• Add Network Host Name configuration
• Add Japanese (S-JIS) text encoding
• Add Korean (EUC-KR) text encoding
• Add Thai (TIS620) text encoding
• Add system time synchronization with time servers
• Add external USB DVD-ROM support**
• Add Auto-Play function when a disc is inserted in the external USB DVD-ROM
• Add Parental Control for disc rating
• Fix reboot action when the power button on remote control is pressed
• Fix lip sync with DTS audio in 23.976fps video
• Fix punctuation order of Hebrew text encoding
• Fix internal subtitle in MKV to display according to default flag
• Fix internal HDD capacity information correctly above 1TB
• Fix Simplified/Traditional Chinese characters display under English Language Menu
• Fix external USB DVD-ROM unable to eject once mounted
• Fix the extra directories present when returning to Home menu from browser
• Fix system freeze when another USB device is attached while the wireless N dongle is in use
• Fix internal Simplified Chinese SRT subtitle present in MKV container format
• Fix internet radio broken link
• Improved playback of files in sequence via network
• Remove File Copy and Setup menu from Home menu
• Remove unicgi (Neighbour Web) application from Extension Info