Hannover, Germany, March 2011.

Technology preview for 2011 – AC Ryan revolutionises your music, photo and TV viewing experience with cutting edge software that knows you better than you know yourself. The music you want based on your mood. The photos you want from a specific moment in time. The TV shows you want determined by your own schedule.

Content in 2011. The year digital delivery of Content starts to take shape in a form that is user accessible and market friendly. AC Ryan will be working with numerous media partners to bring your favourite music, movies and programs straight to your living room. Announced at CeBIT – VUDU partners with AC Ryan. Stream instantly from the world’s largest HD library.

AC Ryan USA CEO, Tobias Brinkmann comments “We are very excited to partner with VUDU to deliver consumers their favorite movies on demand. VUDU delivers the cinema-like experience at home through the Playon!HD series featuring stunning 1080p image quality. This partnership continues to show our commitment to further develop our award winning products with strong content partnerships. Having recently set up the AC Ryan USA office in San Francisco, our products including VUDU video on demand, will be made widely available for US consumers.”

New in 2011 is an extended Playon!DVR^HD line up. More TV tuners will be added to the series, with DVB-S/S2, DVB-C, Combo DVB-C + S/S2 and ATSC joining the current DVB-T model. Built-in CI (Common Interface) models will also be available, completing a comprehensive selection of digital video recorders for all regions.

The Playon!HD2 and Playon!HD Mini 2, the first to feature the latest 1185 media player processor from Realtek, takes the original series a class forward. Take advantage of great features such as Gigabit Full HD streaming, Playon! GUI 2.0, eBuddy and Social Media, with the Playon!HD2 also featuring a USB 3.0 slave port, for the fastest data transfer speeds and an EZ Drive slot for easy HDD insertion.

FLUXX, exclusively revealed in January at CES in Las Vegas, features the most advanced Intel® Atom™ CE4150 processor. Widgets, Video On Demand, Internet Browser, Games, Social Media, Customisable User Interface – enabling you to connect to the content and media that you want, when you want.

Las Vegas, USA – January 2011. AC Ryan continues to revolutionise the media player world with its market leading, multi award winning Playon! series of Full HD Media Players and Recorders. The Playon!HD2 and Playon!HD Mini2, the first to feature the latest 1185 media player processor from Realtek, takes the original series a class forward.

The Playon!HD2 is the next generation of network media player, taking your digital entertainment to the next level. Store all your media files centrally and securely in the built-in eco friendly, low noise, low power consumption HDD up to 2TB. The Playon!HD Mini2 is the next generation of network media streamer. Stream all your media files from your attached storage or over your network. The Playon!HD2 and Playon!HD Mini2 allow you to enjoy your media files directly in the comfort of your living room.

The Playon!HD2 and Playon!HD Mini2 make digital entertainment at home easy. Enjoy more interaction with friends through Facebook, Twitter, MSN and Skype. Play or Stream the world into your living room with the WePlayon! portal (coming soon) for the best online content. The unique and intuitive Playon! GUI2.0 allows users to navigate through all the exceptional features with ease.

Building on the success of the original world’s first, Playon!HD and Playon!HD Mini, the Playon!HD2 and Playon!HD Mini2 are the first Full HD Network Media Player and Streamer to feature Realtek’s latest 1185 processor. Enjoy the pure performance of Gigabit Wired Networking for the very best in media streaming. Wireless networking is also supported with optional Wireless-N via an external adapter. The Playon!HD2 also includes a USB 3.0 port, supporting the fastest transfer speeds available on USB for your external storage, and an EZ Drive HDD slot, to make the installation of your 3.5” HDD even easier.

The Playon!HD2 and Playon!HD Mini2 will be available at all leading retailers in early February.

Suggested Retail Prices:

Playon!HD Mini2 – ACR-PV73800 – $/€ 109

Playon!HD2 – ACR-PV73700 – $/€ 169

Playon!HD2 500GB –  ACR-PV73700-500GB – $/€ 205

Playon!HD2 1TB – ACR-PV73700-1TB – $/€ 229

Playon!HD2 1.5TB – ACR-PV73700-1.5TB – $/€ 259

Playon!HD2 2TB – ACR-PV73700-2TB – $/€ 289

Full Specifications and Photos:

http://www.acryan.com/en/playonhd2.html

http://www.acryan.com/en/playonhdm2.html

AC Ryan has revolutionised the media player world with its market leading, multi award winning Playon! series of Full HD Media Players and Recorders. The ‘out of the box’ thinking Dutch company is now set to expand its product range with technology that will certainly make Consumer Electronics market-watchers take notice and get media player users excited. The AC Ryan FLUXX Full HD Media Player delivers the most connected media player with the fastest consumer electronics media processor available – the Intel® Atom™ CE4150 processor, from the CE4100 series.

The digital world in which we live demands an increasingly higher class of home entertainment. Consumers want to be connected with social media, the internet and all of their favourite content at the touch of a button. AC Ryan, powered by Intel®, is delighted to merge its innovative expertise and deliver.

The AC Ryan FLUXX is the first and most connected Full HD Media Player to ship with the Intel® Atom™ CE4150 processor. Bursting with features that allow consumers to engage with social media, online streaming, movies and music on a whole new level. Cutting edge hardware with 1.2GHz processing power, 400MHz Extreme graphics, 1GB DDR3 Memory, and 2 GB extreme on-board NAND-flash memory. Ultimate feature offering with Gigabit Wired Network, optional wireless-N via USB and built-in HDD up to 2TB. Connecting people with widgets for endless use of social media applications, connected media library which scans and automatically updates movie information from internet sources, web browser with Flash support and online streaming content, and support for DRM content.

Hardware.info is one of the leading news and reviews websites in The Netherlands and their annual awards are eagerly anticipated by everyone associated with PC and Consumer Electronics, as products are awarded by the voting public.

Thousands of readers voted the Playon!HD as their favourite media player and this further proves our market leader status in The Netherlands.

This is a true measure of a products’ popularity and we are proud that the Playon!HD has been chosen by the readers of Hardware.info for this prestigious award!

We will continue our commitment to cutting edge hardware and software development for your digital lifestyle. Coming soon: Playon!GUI2.0

Thanks to everyone who voted!

After today, November 30^th, the competition will no longer be open. To increase your chance of winning a prize, there is still time to get another Tweet in before the competition closes at midnight tonight!

For those who have already taken part – thanks and good luck for the draw!

Tweet: I DO #PLAYON @ ACRyan

Prizes from HARMAN/KARDON, LG, ROCCAT, OCZ and ADATA!

This is your chance to share some Playon! love and see the centre of your home entertainment world elevated to Golden status. You can login/register on the Tweakers forum and post your favourite Playon! model. The forum is in Dutch. There are, of course, a whole bunch of other categories for all of your favourite components and electronics! A Philips TV and Blu-ray player will be given away as prizes for lucky voters.

Once the nominations have been gathered and finalised on December 2nd, the voting step takes place from December 6th for three weeks, so make sure to check back and get the all-important vote in!

For more information, please visit Tweakers.net – http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_messages/1435428

We figured that quite a lot of people must, as our Playon! series, led by the Playon!HD and Playon!HD Mini and now featuring the Playon!DVRHD and Playon!HD Essential, is now market leader in The Netherlands for media players and streamers. Watching the growth of the Playon! series since its launch in the summer of 2009 has been exciting and hugely rewarding for everyone at AC Ryan, and the support of resellers, media partners, online community and customers has played a major part.

What better reason to take to the national train stations of The Netherlands and unleash some Playon! fun on some unsuspecting early morning travellers? Complaints of a tedious daily journey to work or study will be absent as the sexy Playon! poster turns some heads this week (until next Tuesday) (check out Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrecht Central Stations on Thursday morning, where models will be handing out Playon! brochures)

Such national exposure could not go without a treat or two. One of the largest giveaways to ever hit the poster advertisements of NS train stations is taking place, inviting Twitter-followers to Tweet the answer to the aforementioned question.

The answer is, of course…(drum roll) – I DO #PLAYON! @ ACRyan

Prizes from leading consumer electronics and components manufacturers such as HARMAN/KARDON, LG, ADATA, OCZ, and ROCCAT will be given away to lucky Tweeters.

Check out our website for more information – http://www.playonhd.com/tweet-and-win/en/

The Playon!HD is the leading media player in its class. It was a world’s first when it was released in 2009 and has grown to become a truly superb all-in-one media player. Whether it be streaming from external storage, playing over the network from your PC or simply from your media files stored in the internal hard drive, the Playon!HD offers unbeatable format support at a great price. AC Ryan has shown commitment in supporting the Playon!HD with regular firmware updates to ensure customers always get the latest features for their player.

With the Playon!GUI2.0 planned for the Playon!HD in December, the Playon!HD will remain a centre-piece for your digital entertainment at home.

It is great to receive further recognition in our home market, where we are market leader for media players. Hardware.info is one of the leading news and reviews websites in The Netherlands.

Vote now to ensure the Playon!HD rightfully remains where it currently stands: as the No. 1!

More info: http://nl.hardware.info/nieuws/21245/stem-nu-hardwareinfo-awards-2010—ronde-2

It was June 2009, when AC Ryan revolutionized the media player world by being the first to ship the Realtek network Full HD media player processor – the 1073, these days the most popular and most widely used media player processor.

With the Playon!HD Essential, AC Ryan continues to lead the market and again achieves not one, not two, but THREE firsts to market:

-          First to ship Realtek’s latest no network Full HD media player processor

-          First to ship a public firmware based on Realtek’s new SDK with brand new functions – Playon!GUI2.0 a completely unique AC Ryan user interface

-          First to ship a no network media player with the option to upgrade to wireless network

Whilst we cannot always guarantee to be the first each and every time, you can be sure AC Ryan constantly strives to deliver to market the most cutting edge, quality products. Innovative, engaging, dedicated and committed, ‘out of the box’ thinkers THE specialist in media players – the reasons why AC Ryan is the No.1* Media Player Brand –  while others talk, we deliver.

* source : GfK Retail Report Aug 2010 Netherlands

The new GUI (ingeniously named Playon!GUI2.0) features changes to layout and programming logic which allows AC Ryan to unleash a truly unique, stylish and user-friendly user experience. This is the first Realtek-based media player using Transparency in GUI images, giving the Essential something more trendy than current models. Handy functions such as Shortcuts to Recently Added Music or Video, Smart Media Library, Movie Wall and MP3 ID3 tag embedded images brings intuitive navigation which users demand. When added to the features currently available such as ThumbGen, BD ISO Playback and MKV Compressed Headers Playback, GUI2.0 brings the effortless experience to media players – the way it should be.

Playon!GUI2.0 is currently available with the Playon!HD Essential, and will be coming soon in new firmware updates to the entire Playon! series before the end of the year. Watch this space!

Screenshots can be found on our Sneak Preview page and our Playon!HD Essential Press Page