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With a built-in Analog & Digital TV (Freeview) tuner, the Playon!DVR TV is for everyone, whether your locale has made the big switch to Freeview or not. With more stations to record, you’ll surely appreciate Playon!DVR TV’s excellence in recording storage.
Not only does Playon!DVR TV sport huge storage space, you can easily copy your recordings to USB external storage, USBdisk, even to your computer via network. And once on the computer, what do you think about uploading your recorded video to your favorite online video or blog within seconds? Ordinary ‘ol DVRs sure will not do that. Heck, you can even record directly to USBdisk and have your recordings in your pocket.
In addition to recording, Playon!DVR TV also stores, plays and streams your digital media – music, movies, photos. Why? Because Playon!DVR TV is not just a DVR, it’s the new generation DVR integrated into the digital age where computers and TV live together!
To help you get acquainted with the many wonders of Playon!DVR TV, here’s a Contest where you can win yourself this cool Playon!DVR TV. Simply pick the Top 5 from the list of Playon!DVR TV features. It takes less than 30 seconds. Take a break, have a ‘lil light fun… Play n Win!
Can’t wait? Wanna get your hands on Playon!DVR TV now?
Playon!DVR TV is available in UK & Ireland online from these preferred stores :
Scan.co.uk | Specialtech.co.uk | Advancedmp3players.co.uk | Komplett.ie
In this Blog article,
- Files of recorded video for you to check
- What file types and specs of the recordings
- Putting TV recordings to Internet
- Recording direct to USB
One of the advantages of Playon!DVR TV as compared to traditional DVDR / VCR is your video recorded with Playon!DVR TV can go “outside” your box easily. Copy via network to your PC, copy it to an external harddisk, and best of all, copy it to a USB stick. Now you may wonder why you would want to copy your recordings onto USB stick? Well, USB is so popular these days that many players are able to play audio/video from USB sticks – incl. the traditional DVDR, DVD players, Car DVD players, Portable Media Players, Mediaplayers, Mediastreamers etc. the list goes on. Cool eh? considering that if you have recorded with most DVDRs / Set-top box DVRs, your recorded video is often just stucked in the box.
We’ve received user requests asking us if we could provide recorded video files for them to test if it would play with their DVD players. So here they are:
Analog TV and A/V-In recordings are recorded as .MPG files.
Most players these days can playback .MPG, let us know if it does or does not play on your players. It will be cool to know and helps us help other users.
Analog TV and A/V-In recordings can be set at 5 different quality settings – HQ/SP/EP/LP/SLP with different quality and filesize. All the recordings here are 1min recordings so you can compare the filesizes. Technically, HQ / SP / EP records at the same quality of 720x576 (DVD resolution) but uses different compression ratio for smaller filesizes. LP / SLP records at a lower resolution of 352x576 great for squeezing that extra hours eg. weeklong non-stop recording :). What does all these number say? Best way is to download them play them back on your screen and see if you can tell the difference. Choose the smallest filesize recording setting where you dont see a decrease in quality on your screen.
1. Recording quality setting : HQ / duration : 1min / filesize : 68.7mb
Video: MPEG2 Video 720x576 (4:3) 25.00fps 9800Kbps [Video (ID 224 @ Prog# 0)]
Audio: MPEG Audio 48000Hz stereo 256Kbps [Audio (ID 192 @ Prog# 0)]
3. Recording quality setting : EP / duration : 1min / 24.4mb
Video 720x576 (4:3) 25.00fps 9800Kbps [Video (ID 224 @ Prog# 0)]
Audio: MPEG Audio 48000Hz stereo 256Kbps [Audio (ID 192 @ Prog# 0)]
4. Recording quality setting : LP / duration : 1min / 17.7mb
Video: MPEG2 Video 352x576 (4:3) 25.00fps 9800Kbps [Video (ID 224 @ Prog# 0)]
Audio: MPEG Audio 48000Hz stereo 256Kbps [Audio (ID 192 @ Prog# 0)]
5. Recording quality setting : SLP / duration : 1min / 12.3mb
Video: MPEG2 Video 352x576 (4:3) 25.00fps 9800Kbps [Video (ID 224 @ Prog# 0)]
Audio: MPEG Audio 48000Hz stereo 192Kbps [Audio (ID 192 @ Prog# 0)]
** These AnalogTV recordings are made with Playon!DVR TV, the same information / files apply also toe AV-In recordings of Playon!DVR TV and Playon!DVR.
How were these files made? And how to get them onto Internet?
Windows Sky Drive has a limit of max 50mb per file. There are other services, other internet uploads you will find useful. Great for blogging about TV programs, blogging about news isn’t it?
DVB-T recordings are recorded as .TS files
.TS file formats are newer, some players may not yet support it. Well, our Playon!HD certainly does play it :) Well give it a try and let us know if your DVD player etc plays the .TS recordings.
With DVB-T recordings, the TV signals are digital, and the recordings are digital. So unlike Analog TV recordings, DVB-T recordings has no quality compression settings.
Here we have 2 recordings, one recorded to internal Harddisk, one recorded directly to USB stick.
1. DVB-T Recording to internal HDD
Video: MPEG2 Video 704x576 (16:9) 25.00fps 15000Kbps [Video]
Audio: MPEG Audio 48000Hz stereo 160Kbps [Audio]
2. DVB-T Recording to USBstick (Diskje)
Video: MPEG2 Video 704x576 (16:9) 25.00fps 15000Kbps [Video]
Audio: MPEG Audio 48000Hz stereo 160Kbps [Audio]
Record to Harddisk and Record direct to USB gives the same formats and quality
As you can see, there are no difference in recording format, we did this just to show users who may have questions about whether recording to USB and recording to Harddisk is any different.
The advantage of recording direct to USB is that you can skip the step of transferring files to FAT32. The recordings are directly and immediately on your USB stick, ready to be taken anywhere.
Record to USB
All recordings (DVB-T, Analog TV, AV-In) can be done direct to USB stick. When using Timer record, you can set the recording medium as HDD or USB. For instant live record (by pressing record button on remote control or front panel), you need to pre-set the default recording medium to HDD or USB in the Setup.
Well happy recording and enjoy the freedom to take your recording anywhere, everywhere.
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footnote [self-advertising haha]: Speaking of recording to USB… Have you checked out our cool cool merchandising product – the Diskje? the smallest USB disk, waterproof and shockproof. It’s so small, you can slide dozens of them in your pocket and still have no weird lump sticking out of your jeans. Available now in 4GB / 8GB / 16GB. The Diskje? are available as AC Ryan merchandsing promotion and come with a small small price (as small as the Diskje :) You can purchase them in our OUTLET (in Rotterdam or online), or buy them with your Playon!DVR TV / Playon!HD purchase. We use them much personally and also with our Playon!DVR TV, Playon!HD as recording and playback medium. Disk-je? ;)
To update firmware, simply download it from our ACRyan.com website (Support->Software section). Put it on a USB disk (eg, our lovely little Diskje), and follow the simple instructions included in the download. Enjoy!
For media hungry users, where no capacity is ever large enough, an attractive feature of Playon! DVR TV is that unlike conventional DVD-/HDD-Recorders, when the internal harddisk runs out of space, the user can easily expand with an usb external drive or play and store content from and to a PC / Media Center via network.
The Playon! DVR TV 1TB is immediately available, and comes with a shop price of 349 euro or online price of 299 euro.
What do you need…
More info:
Some Playon! DVR TV users have asked me this question. The short and simplified answer is yes, you can backup / copy DVD discs that you own onto Harddisk for your personal use.
After you copied it onto your harddisk, if you share it with your friends, family or upload it on internet…. then that’s clearly not allowed, pure illegal. Copying a rented or borrowed DVD to keep is also clearly illegal since you have no right to keep it.
For Commercial DVD, as long as you are copying your own DVD onto your own harddisk for your own personal use, the general interpretation is that this is “fair use”.
Here we are talking about Commercial DVD. For other types, other rules apply such as your aunt’s DVD home movie (ask her for permission), free for distribution DVD (says it all – free for distribution) etc.
We suggest that you keep ONE and only one copy of your DVD disc on the harddisk of Playon! DVR TV and from your Playon! DVR TV you can now enjoy your DVD discs without discs. Keep the discs in the cupboard for safe-keeping.
It’s a relief to hear you’re not breaking the law by copying your DVD to Harddisk? Ready to start backing up your DVD discs? Backup DVD disc onto Harddisk using DVD Decrypter.
** This article serves as a reference that reflects the common information in the community. It is not to be used as a legal reference.
The Playon! DVR TV product introduction that you see on www.playondvr.com is now also on Youtube as a video file for your viewing and promotion pleasure ;)
Whenever you want to check out Playon! DVR vids on youtube, just search “Playon DVR” in Youtube.
Here’s a series of 4 “desktop wallpaper” size pics, each presenting a different scenario of Playon! DVR TV. We call them “scenes”.
In the past weekend, Playon!DVR TV premiered in Singapore at the IT Show 2009 12-15 March with huge success. The Playon!DVR TV was sold out on the last day of the show and we are pleased to announce Playon!DVR TV is the No.1 Bestseller DVR at IT SHOW 2009. A cool thanks to all users in Singapore for the tremendous support.
Move on to the real digital age, why mess with optical discs (CDs / DVDs / Bluerays) anymore when you can Play Record Store with network, usbdisks, external usb drives. Here’s a direct comparison with DVD-/HDD-Recorders of equivalent price with much less features and a miserably smaller capacity harddisk. Or go for one with similar harddisk capacity and be prepared to pay much more and still get much less features. Playon!DVR TV is simply the most relevant digital HDD recorder with the right features, at the right price.
Here is a couple of Playon! DVR TV recording tests.
[sidenote: I was pleasantly surprised how fast and easy these quick tests were completed :)]
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- recorded with AC Ryan Playon!DVR TV (ACR-PV72100TV)
- recorded directly on USB flash disk (AC Ryan diskje)
- TV Recording Test
- Analog TV (Cable TV), Netherlands, Channel RTL7
- recorded resolution 720x576 (DVD-quality) PAL
- opened in Windows Movie Maker to add text
- Windows Movie Maker saved move in 640x480 resolution
- Uploaded to YouTube
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Another straight-up upload test without processing or editing. This time recorded in SLP mode "Special Long Play" which has the highest compression, giving the smallest file, longest recording hours. To compare the quality between HQ and SLP, whether it is visible on Youtube.
Recording source : Analog Cable TV, Channel RTL4,
Recording equipment : AC Ryan Playon! DVR TV / SLP quality setting
Recording media : AC Ryan diskje (usb disk)
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Earlier test was after editing in Windows Movie Maker (to put in text). This is a straight-up test, upload to Youtube from the original recording file, without any edits or processing.
- Plugin USB disk on Playon!
- Press Record on Remote Control (Playon! default Recording is set to USB disk)
- Press Stop on Remote Control
- Plug out USB disk from Playon!, Plugin in USB disk on notebook
- Open web browser to Youtube, select Upload, type in this text
Very happy with this test - very "idiot-proof" :)
Recording source : Analog Cable TV, Channel RTL4,
Recording equipment : AC Ryan Playon! DVR TV / HQ quality setting
Recording media : AC Ryan diskje (usb disk)
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The newest AC Ryan Playon!DVR TV 500GB HDD Recorder (ACR-PV72100TV-500) is expected to arrive this week in The Netherlands - 18 March 2009, Wednesday.
You can easily record television programs directly (live recording) or via a recording schedule (timer recording)
On Youtube we have made a few recording tests, and in less than 5 minutes they were up on Youtube. (search "Playon DVR" on youtube)
Recording schedule (timer recording) can be done in several ways:
Playon!DVR TV is first and foremost a top HDD Recorder, but naturally it is also a media player, a NAS drive (Network drive), and an external drive (data storage).
check it out op PlayonDVR.com special microsite www.playondvr.com
Check out the new Playon!DVR TV with Eugene (Singapore) as he takes you on a walkthrough of the new Playon! DVR TV…
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AC Ryan Playon! DVR is no unfamiliar name in the home DVR market. With our successful ACR-PV72100 model, we bring you our latest debut. Playon! DVRtv ACR-PV72100TV with built in Analog / Digital tuner!
Yes, we heard you and once again we have made it to be the first DVR model that comes with a hybrid tuner.
With the hybrid tuner, you can now hook up your wall coaxial TV-In antenna to enjoy watching and recording local analog channels. If that isn't enough, you can hook up the supplied DVBT antenna and enjoy free to air digital channels such as TV Mobile and Digital 5/8/CNA test signals in certain parts of Singapore.
A look at the main menu, the tuner mode can be individually selected to watch/record Digital (DVB-T), Analog or external sources such as set-top boxes, DVD players etc via the A/V In connection (Composite). At the end of the menu lies the Internet Radio option which is a value add on our DVR. I'll come to that later...
The PV72100TV is pretty strong in picking up digital channels, we've scanned and gotten 23 digital channels, but due to signal encryption of local broadcasters, only TV Mobile is available to watch at all times. And if you're in the area where you are able to receive digital 5/8/CNA test signals, enjoy!
For countries with lots of digital channels, users would be able to press the EPG (Electronic Program Guide) button on the remote control to check out program schedule as seen in the following photo.
EPG taken from TV Mobile channel:
A preview of recordings made off DVBT channel
A preview of recordings made off Analog and AV-In (from Starhub set-top box)
Users can now do a real-time recording of any Digital/Analog/AV-In channels while watching another program off your television set.
Scheduled recording can also be set to record from a mixture of channels, for example, MobileTV (DVBT) in the morning, Channel 5/8 etc (Analog) in the afternoon and cable channels (AV-In) off your own set-top box in the evening.
Never miss watching another program again!
To add value on top of the hybrid tuner, we have also included a nifty Internet Radio function which when connected to your router with access to the internet, allows you to scroll through thousands of free streaming radio channels hosted around the world!
Notice this is just page 1 out of 1255!
We tried out .977 The Hitz Channel and gotten many mirror sites!
Just go into any mirror sites, if one failes to stream due to traffic congestion or any other reasons, just hop on to the next bandwidth. Bound to have one that's available!
Other improvements made to our new DVR includes a new playlist where you can add mixture of media contents, photos/music/videos to a playlist or individual playlist consisting of only just music, photos or videos.
A new option can be found in the Record setup section, which is the Permanent Timeshift option. This is a nifty option to constantly record in the background to the timeshift buffer (1 - 4hrs) of the DVR, and you can pause or rewind live TV anytime!
Pretty cool option that allows you to rewind and watch that amazing goal while you are off to the toilet and resume the live soccer match without any further interruption.
Of course, if you choose to turn off the permanent timeshift option, you can still do a timeshift anytime by pressing the timeshift button on the remote control. The difference?
Normal Timeshift - User intervention required, pauses the current live TV program frame and continues recording until the buffer is full (according to how many hours the HDD was configured during formatting) or cancelled by user.
Permanent Timeshift - No user intervention required, live TV is constantly recorded to the buffer and user is able to pause, rewind or resume at any point.
HDD usage can now be viewed at a glance via the HDD information option that shows how many percentage is available and used up by the UDF, FAT32, NTFS, as well as the timeshift buffer partition.
Feel free chime in your questions right here, or email us rotterdam@acryan.com | asia@acryan.com
