Oh... i thought PlayOn HD2 can be a NAS as well?

Oops sorry was sleepy at that time, misread the '+' sign, thought you wanted to get POHD2 and a NAS separately.

Yes it can be done also but of course it would be better to get a dedicated NAS. Also, make sure you use a green HDD, do not put performance HDD or it can get very hot inside the player.

wow thanks OKLY, great tips i plan to get a 1TB W.D. GREEN 64M 7200 RPM, is this the Green HDD you talking about?

Yea because I have received some feedbacks from my customers that when they insert a higher performance HDD (not a green HDD), it tends to get very hot and almost can't touch the player. So they tried using a green HDD instead and it was much better. Otherwise if you're still worried about the heat, you can always use a notebook cooler, connect to the USB port for power and place the player on top of it.

OKLY thanks.

BTW, i tried playing MP4 movie with AAC+HE file and connect optical to my amp. Seems that i dont get any audio from the amp.

What happened here? Should my amp be equip with AAC decoder too?

i was update to the latest version then got the new option with the jukebox. then i just go to forum download the YAMJ gui to run the update with internet then can see the booklet look? or need customize again the folder and file? coz my hdd inside got each movie each folder and got each subtitle inside it.

Hi OKLY, some info for you regarding NAS. We do not recommend WD Green because it coz a lot of problem to the NAS. When the NAS not reading, the green will stop spining. But when we wake up the NAS, the green baby a bit lazy to wake up slowly and coz the NAS cannot find the green baby and indicated that this green baby is a bad boy and your NAS will be huha... . So, do your choice carefully.

Wat hdd u recommend?

That's what i facing now... gosh... the green is way to slow and cause the player HANG!... that means i need to get another HDD and migrate my file, again?

Anyway, i love the HD2 player... lovely quality

If for media files, which is not so important for NAS, Hitachi or Samsung is good. But for crucial data, WD RE4 or Black is highly recomended, of course, price is about 30% to 50% higher.

Yea apparently WD Caviar Green with the new format have a lot of issues with majority of NAS. I think my customer tried another green HDD, he was very happy with it.

Not much experience with Hitachi HDDs but Samsung F3 line is pretty good (I myself is slowly converting all my HDDs to Samsung F3), price for performance definitely almost unbeatable at its class. Won't the Caviar Black generate too much heat? But if attaching to a NAS enclosure then should be alright since the NAS box will be bigger to have slightly more room for ventilation also helped by the cooling fan. The A.C.Ryan player in my opinion quite small so ventilation won't be so good inside the player if fit in a high performance HDD, to me I think I would recommend something like the Samsung F3, runs quite cool and also offers decent performance.

Can anybody help me. I updated with this (Firmware: V7.4.3 r2115), once I updated, the picture have 2 black bar on the left hand side and right hand side, as you can see in my attachment. Before I do any update, it was okay, no black bar on the left side and right side. I checked again, e'ry setting is correct, picture format is all 16:9.....

Firmware problem right?????






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Before the firmware update, the same exact file was viewing in full-screen? So your TV is confirming that the display is 1080p 16:9 right? It looks like a TV zoom feature that caused it (on my Sony TV, the options for the zoom are something like Zoom, Wide Zoom etc.).

Before firmware update, everything is okay. The TV setting is just fine, I used another media player to play the same file. It looked okay, no black bar on the left and right side. When black bar showed in left and right side, meaning something is very wrong with the firmware.
Can I use back the old firmware? Can the PlayOn read the old firmware????
Model: ACR-PV73100...

can you try pressing the zoom out button on your remote control ? I suspect you accidentally pressed the zoom in button which resulted in the above scenario.

No no no, not the zoom button, no accidentally. TV and POHD unit all 16:9. No zoom. I already changed other media player unit, no problem at all... Problem started after I updated this stupid firmware....
My suggestion to other POHD users, don't update this firmware...

You mentioned that you flashed to V7.4.3 r2115 but from the website, the latest is v7.3.3.r4824, maybe try using the latest one instead.

This post has been edited by OKLY: Jun 6 2011, 05:19 PM

As u can see my attachment is really V7.4.3 r2115
You think the POHD unit and can down grade the firmware to V7.3.3 r4824??? I also don't know actually.


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Seems like that is a beta firmware and it is not stated as an official release yet so there might be some bugs or instabilities which can be quite common in beta firmwares.

As for flashing back to an older firmware, I found some steps online which might help:

Disclaimer: Do this at your own risk as this is so far an unofficial method of flashing. So far I think there isn't any official support to flash back to an older firmware.

r2115 is a beta.
about 10 pages back, some installed it and reported it as having bugs.
thanks to that, i never upgraded, still waiting for final version.