PlayonHD 2

[Mars]

http://www.acryan.com/web/product/playonhd2/

Looks really good!
Major upgrades that I can see are Gigabit lan and USB 3. From the two screenshots the firmware looks alot slicker than what I'm using now.

 

[spike_za]

I was looking to replace my Mede8er with this when it came out until i read this.

http://www.acryan.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=166&t=12239

seems the Gigabit lan is waste of time, no real boost in network tranfer speeds :-(

 

[shearder]

You CANNOT go wrong with these ACRyan units. I have 2 at home. One upstairs and one downstairs and whole house wirelessly networked so the rooms have "movie" channels. One upstairs has 2tb hard drive - and one downstairs nothing - runs on the wireless with 2 PCs also feeding media when on.

I would truly suggest buying these units before anything else. I have YET to come across a movie i can;t play or any problems and sometimes we listen to internet radio stations i.e. rock or blues etc. AWESOME!!!

 

[Mars]

Yea I have a couple myself, tho I think the mede8er is better (if only marginally).

I actually think that there is no major reason to get the 2 over the first one. Especially if the lan is so slow..