As an example, in the set-up menu, to move between categories, the visual layout would suggest hitting the left-hand side of the control pad. There's a fundamental lack of logic present within the HD2's menu structures. Bad, because it's plagued with inconsistent choices as to how you navigate around the page. Good, because it's a visually rich GUI that presents well on a decent-sized display screen. The Playon!HD2 uses the same interface as the Essential did, and this has both its good and bad sides. Naturally, you'd be expected to just have all those formats lying around, perfectly legally. The official list reads as follows: AVI, MKV, TS, TP, TRP, M2TS, MPG, MP4, MOV, M4V, VOB, ISO, DVD-ISO, IFO, DAT, WMV, ASF, RM, RMVB, FLV and BD-ISO. Digging around the support website revealed that the torrent client is controlled from a web GUI from any PC on the same network a pointer to this from the GUI (or in the quick start guide) would have been a good idea.Ĭodec support is, as with the Essential, very wide indeed. We tried the quick start guide, but that was no use, and AC Ryan's support forums suggest that a full product manual is "coming soon".
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There's also in-built torrent support, although this is one area where the GUI does itself no favours in terms of making it obvious how to set up and run torrents through the Playon!HD2. In terms of online media features, there's support for Twitter, Facebook, Picasa, Flickr, YouTube and a number of Yahoo-specific feeds. AC Ryan dubs this the Ez Drive Slot and as hard drive installations go, it's certainly simple. Drives go into the side of the unit and are very simple to install and uninstall underneath the small clipped-on cover.
Our review sample featured a 500GB hard drive, and it's worth checking what kind of storage (if any) a retailer's putting into it for a given price point. The base price of the HD2 is actually cheaper than that of the networking-free HD Essential we reviewed recently, but that's because it omits any kind of hard drive.
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