Playon!HD walkthrough

This is the first walkthrough for our brand new and spectacular Playon!HD. Equipped to be the best full HD mediaplayer out there, we will run you through it’s main features!
On the picture below you see the remote and main device. The remote in the actual product will have the logo printed on it instead of a sticker. This was only done to illustrate there will be a logo.

First off, the menu screen:

Looks HD already huh! Here you can select File Copy, Browser, Setup and Internet Radio. Of course, when properly set up you will mostly use Browse to explore your multimedia files. The File Copy and Setup can also be accessed with a push on the button on the remote. So you don’t necessarily have to go back to the main menu for those.

Next up, some Setup screens:

In the last picture you see a completely new thing. Extensions! Yes, the applications are now in the form of add-on apps. By default the Playon!HD is shipped with seen applications. This means you will have a webbased Bittorrent client and a NAS client (Samba) that you can use to access the Playon from your PC.

And the last one i wanted to point out is that there is another added extra which allows you to stop watching a video, and at a later time, resume it again. The timeline data is automatically stored. Nice! Oh and you can also switch off the preview of each file while browsing.

Now, let’s see the Browser!

As you can see, some things have been added like the Cardreader and UPnP is there by default. As we have the 500GB model here, i will go to Local HDD to see what we’ve got there. See the BT folder? That is the folder which is automatically created when you start using the Bittorrent client. Here all files will be downloaded to. When completely finished they will show up here, so in the meantime you won’t have files which you cannot play (yet).

Going through our Video folder, of course we are watching MKV files, this one in particular is nearly 7GB.

Needless to say, the movie quality is excellent. But it does show that the Playon!HD has no problems whatsoever to process these big files. No glitches, no artifacts, just smooth playback and razorsharp images. By the way, the skip ahead button now acts as a chapter skip as well. You need to know this but actually it works pretty well!