Firmware Update: ACRyan Playon! HD 7.06.2089_Beta

By admin On Oct 25, 2009

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The developers at ACRyan have for the ACR-PV73100 Playon! HD new beta firmware released with 7.06.r2089_Beta as the version number. This HD media player uses a chipset from Realtek and can play all common audio and video formats. Note that DTS audio is only available in passthrough mode, a shortcoming that plagues many media players. The list of changes for this latest release is as follows:

What’s new in this release

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 (Beta development, not fully working yet)

YouTube streaming
Picasa photo album
RSS news feeds

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 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 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

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

–Currently still in “final fixing” (not completed yet in this BETA)–

Fix internal Traditional Chinese SRT subtitle support for MKV container format
Fix punctuation order of Hebrew text encoding

**Due to CSS (Content-Scrambling System) present in DVD movie discs, the system accepts only un-protected DVD movie discs.

Version number	7.06.2089_Beta
Release status	beta
Website	ACRyan
Download	http://www.acryan.com/downloads/Firmware_PV73100_v7.06.r2089.zip
File size	35.35MB
License type	Freeware