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1 **IMPORTANT NOTE** This firmware version requires at least v7.3.x.r3582 or later installed in your unit. Before you proceed, please go to SETUP - SYSTEM - SYSTEM INFO to check your current firmware version. Download and install r3582 if required and then proceed to update to the latest available version. Asian: European: Flashing Procedures: Two methods to flash the firmware to your Playon!HD Safe-mode flashing procedure (Recommended) 1. Copy install.img to the root directory of a USB flash drive and connect it to any USB host port of the unit. 2. Switch off the main power to the unit. 3. Press and hold on to the power button on the front panel of the unit. 4. Switch on the main power. 5. Release the power button when the firmware update starts flashing on your display in a moment and will automatically reboot when update is completed. **Do not power off the unit during the flashing process!** Normal flashing procedure 1. Copy install.img to the root directory of a USB flash drive and connect it to any USB host port of the unit. 2. Enter the Setup menu, System, USB Upgrade and Enter to confirm. 3. The firmware update will start flashing on your display in a moment and will automatically reboot when update is completed **Do not power off the unit during the flashing process!** The HDMI connection may reset after updating the firmware and may go out of sync with your display. Press the TV SYS button on the remote a few times to sync with a compatible display mode if this happen. Once the display is back, we recommend setting to HDMI Auto in the video setup menu unless other modes are preferred. Model: AC Ryan ACR-PV73100 Playon!HD Version: v7.4.3.r7317 (Asian)/ v7.4.4.r7317 (European) Release: Firmware History New Features / Improvements / Bug Fixes Version v7.4.x.r Improved Goto function, now able to directly input numeric on the entry fields

2 2. Improved various menu language translations and OSD errors 3. Improved audio playing indicator bar to match with the current progress of playback 4. Improved sync with various.txt subtitle formats 5. Improved subtitles handling (a) Multiple SRT subtitles for a video, naming the desired subtitle file the same as the video name will make it the default subtitle during playback Example; If you have 'Avatar.mkv' video and 'Avatar.srt', 'Avatar.dutch.srt', 'Avatar.german.srt', etc Avatar.srt will be the default subtitle If you prefer to have other subtitle as the default subtitle, just rename that to 'Avatar.srt' (b) Only subtitles that are relevant to the video being played will be displayed and selectable Example; If you have 'Avatar.mkv' and 'Iron Man.mkv' together with 'Avatar.srt' and 'Iron Man.srt' subtitles in a single folder When playing 'Avatar.mkv' and pressing the subtitle button will only display and let you select 'Avatar.srt'. 'Iron Man.srt' will not be seen as a selectable subtitle 6. Added audio setting that can be directly accessed when pressing the MENU button during audio/video playback 7. Added 'Show all files' option in SETUP - SYSTEM menu to provide users the flexibility of manipulating files that are otherwise filtered out by the system as non-media types 8. Added Thai and Hebrew virtual keyboard layout and input method 9. Added support for PGS subtitles in MKV container 10. Added scan HDD utility to check and automatically fix any NTFS file system errors 11. Added option to rename saved Shortcuts Note: This renames only the shortcuts and not the actual file/folder 12. Fixed random system reboot when accessing the SETUP menu during video playback 13. Fixed prompting of HDD format when system is upgraded to version r5440 with the internal HDD already formatted by the previous SDK platform (version r4824 and earlier) 14. Fixed error message 'Unable to service request' from appearing when setting a username/password for FTP 15. Fixed the limit of maximum 15 subtitles placed in a single folder 16. Fixed missing audio channels when playing back video with multi-channel AAC audio via an external amplifier 17. Fixed constant rebooting problem caused by the index file being corrupted after scanning any MP3 files with an ID3 tag that contains a large file size embedded image 18. Fixed system reboot when loading a Jukebox created with AC Ryan YAMJ Installer v Fixed random system freeze when exiting or stopping from playing a movie in Movie Jukebox 20. Fixed unable to display YAMJ generated TV Series and Boxsets in Movie Jukebox 21. Fixed broken service to NBC TODAY SHOW in Video Podcast 22. Fixed no audio bug when using certain services in Internet Media if you are using SPDIF/OPTICAL connection to an external amplifier 23. Fixed during audio playback, ID3 details does not appear after returning from screensaver, MENU options or SETUP 24. Fixed unable to load subtitles when default subtitle option in Setup > Misc > Subtitle is turned off 25. Fixed during a paused video playback and screen saver appears with option set to Photo Album or Flickr, will cause the system to reboot Note: Due to a Realtek SDK limitation, only the default screen saver image will appear during a paused video playback 26. Fixed unable to create new folder on network when copying/moving files 27. Fixed unable to access a password protected network location that has been added to the Shortcuts menu 28. Fixed unable to load.m3u playlist over network 29. Moved Shortcuts menu to the first listed menu on the Home Screen 30. Moved "Stretch" option as the first selection when pressing the Zoom button during video playback

3 Version v7.4.x.r Improved areas where requiring a password input, the entry does not show up under the virtual keyboard input field and not saved under Input History 2. Improved correct sorting of titles alphabetically when locating Jukebox index.htm over network 3. Improved various menu language translations and OSD errors 4. Improved displaying of music title in ID3 tag during playback instead of the file name 5. Improved USB keyboard workability in various environment 6. Improved Shoutcast now shows the progress and total amount of items loading 7. Add 'Subtitle On/Off' option under SETUP - MISC to set default action of displaying subtitles on playback 8. Add Subtitle default size/position/color option under SETUP - MISC, works for SRT subtitles 9. Add more zoom options, 0.9x > 0.7x > 0.5x after the last X:100% Y:100% selection 10. Add displaying of music and Shoutcast radio station details while in default screensaver mode 11. Add Shortcuts function for quick access to your files/folders from the main home menu - To add, press the MENU button during selection of your intended file/folder when you are in Files Manager and choose 'Add to Shortcuts' option - To delete, enter Shortcuts menu from home menu and press the RED button to delete the selected shortcut 12. Add 'HDD spin down' function under SETUP MISC - Spin down your internal/external HDD when inactive for selected duration of 5mins/15mins/30mins 13. Add an autoplay function to playback your video or audio automatically after the unit is booted up - Create an 'autoplay' folder (all small letters) on your internal HDD/external storage device - Place your media in the autorun folder in your own alphabetical order - The media will automatically start playing in the same sequence when the unit is booted up *Please note that this function works only for video or audio formats, it does not work with mixed video and audio under the same autoplay folder *If both internal and external storage has the same autoplay folder, the system will only play from the internal storage 14. Fix broken link in YouTube playback since API updates on 1 st August 15. Fix Folder Protection bug of not unlocking when the default password '0000' is changed 16. Fix protected folder instant playback with play button instead of prompting for password first 17. Fix Clear History to remove records under Recently Added Music and Recently Added Movies instead of hiding them 18. Fix screensaver of not starting when a video playback is paused 19. Fix screensaver of not starting when system is idling at the home menu 20. Fix reboot when pressing enter key on an empty Mediafly search entry 21. Fix pressing Home button when playing any music will randomly stop playback 22. Fix Photo Slideshow not being able to pause when the Pause button is pressed. Works on with both Play and Pause button. 23. Fix Shoutcast when fetching large results will randomly freeze the unit 24. Fix Shoutcast when fetching stations or genre may not always load on the first attempt 25. Fix time indicator mis-matched when doing a time skipping (pressing left/right button) after a GOTO operation 26. Fix incorrect YouTube view count 27. Fix during video zoomed condition, pressing 'audio', 'subtitles' or 'info' will reset zoom mode 28. Fix bug of indexing Windows generated hidden files and displaying them under the individual media menus as playable medias 29. Fix wrong loading of subtitle on the video being played when multiple subtitles and videos are under the same parent folder 30. Fix keying in of username and password using the virtual keyboard when accessing a protected network location, a default empty space on the virtual keyboard input entry causes login to fail 31. Fix Embedded covers with ID3 tags including.jpg extension will now display 32. Fix numerous system error when playing back of DIVX/XVID encoded.avi files over NFS 33. Supports <u> Underline </u> and <i> Italic </i> parameters in SRT subtitles 34. Supports both ID3v2.4 UTF-8 and ID3v2.3 UTF-16 tags

4 Note: Smart Content Management ('Scan Storage' option) is now turned off by default under SETUP - SYSTEM menu Version v7.4.x.r AC Ryan Playon! GUI2.0 Refreshing new Graphical User Interface 2. Added new Smart Content Management system - Indexes your HDD/USB storage device and sorts out your media files for quick access from Movies/Music/Photo on the main menu - Also lists your Recently Added Music and Recently Added Movies on the main menu *SCM system can be turned off by choosing Auto scan off under SETUP SYSTEM Scan Storage 3. Added option for changeable system fonts (.TTF) and background image (.PNG) - Create a Resource folder on your HDD/USB storage device and place your files in this folder - Select your desired fonts or desktop image from SETUP SYSTEM for changes to take effect 4. Added option to load your own Photo Album or images from Flickr to run as screensaver 5. Added DLNA DMR support - Install as a Digital Media Render in your own Windows network - Works with Windows 7 Play To feature *For more info, visit 6. Added LPCM Multi-Channel as an HDMI audio output option automatically when a supporting AVR is connected via HDMI connection 7. Added Format HDD Prompt in SETUP MISC to enable/disable prompting of HDD format on boot up 8. Added new Internet Media services - BuddyLink - Mediafly - Video Podcasts - Yahoo Finance - YouTube 9. Added generic USB Keyboard/Mouse support 10. Added new iphone web management remote by keying in Safari browser, the IP address of your player followed by : Example :1024 where is your player IP address *Both the player and your iphone must be in the same network to work 11. Improved Web Remote Control environment 12. Improved Jukebox interface for use with YAMJ Installer v Windows 32-bit: - Windows 64-bit: Improved audio playback on HDMI and S/PDIF 14. Fixed stereo pass-through on S/PDIF 15. Improved FLAC playback 16. Improved Dolby TrueHD playback (for 1073DD C+ board) 17. Improved Dolby Digital Plus 7.1 pass-through 18. Improved RM/RMVB playback 19. Improved general stability 20. Fixed ThumbGen image glitch when rolling over multiple cover wall 21. Fixed ThumbGen random restart when playing the video after displaying the cover wall 22. Removed file copy menu from the main menu. Added file copy/edit/remove functions in Files Manager - Press CONFIRM button on the remote control while in the Files Manager for all available options 23. Removed Guest as default network username Note: Textual / structural changes: 1. In SETUP SYSTEM:

5 - System update is renamed to USB Upgrade and moved to Misc - Added Keyboard input method to set default input method - System Info is split into Version Info and Network Info and moved into Misc 2. In SETUP VIDEO: - Video System is renamed to TV System - Removed Hue, Saturation, Brightness and Contrast from Setup. Added these options under Video Settings when pressing MENU on the remote control during video/photo playback 3. In SETUP NETWORK: - NAS mode is renamed to SAMBA - Removed Remote Control, now by default on 4. In SETUP MISC: - Resume Play moved to System - Removed Seamless Playback, now on by default - Removed Subtitle on/off, now on by default - Browse Mode is removed. Feature is moved to options menu. Press MENU on the remote control when in Video/Music/Photo/File Manager to change browse mode - Changed Internet Radio Location; Shoutcast Radio is now part of the Internet Media features - All slideshow options have been removed and moved to the options menu during photo playback. During photo playback, press MENU to get all slideshow options Version v7.3.x r Improved SAMBA compatibility with Windows 7 2. Improved BTPD downloading stability 3. Improved Web Management default page when Login Control is off 4. Improved Web Management compatibility with Safari and Opera browser 5. Improved compatibility with MKV compressed headers 6. Improved Hebrew subtitles display 7. Improved weather channel description 8. Improved HDMI compatibility 9. Improved REPEAT modes images 10. Improved Player Web Management to display correct remote control image 11. Improved auto scaling of video resolution to user defined screen size resolution 12. Add Change system font option in Setup System menu - Place your preferred.ttf font in Resource folder for selection 13. Add Edit Protection option in Setup Misc menu - Protects the Copy menu with a password when option is turned on - Default password is Add Browser Mode option in Setup Misc menu - Displays your files in Preview Off/Preview/List layout 15. Add new menu language for Asian version - Arabic - Indonesia 16. Add new menu language for European version - Norwegian - Danish - Swedish - Finnish 17. Add Stretch to Zoom In selection [available in previous SDK platform] 18. Add frames seek function during video playback (video dependent) - Press left or right button during video playback to jump to frames backward or forward. [available in previous SDK platform] 19. Add new options in Setup/Video menu - Plasma mode (Dark/Dim/Light)

6 - Screen size resolution [available in previous SDK platform] 20. Add menu for selecting Audio/Subtitle/Title/Chapter/DVD Menu - Press MENU button during video playback to display navigation menu [available in previous SDK platform] 21. Improved skipping of music tracks by pressing the Previous or Next button - During music playing, pressing Next button will play the next track or Previous button to play previous track 22. Fix flickering of info message during music playback when title is too long 23. Fix unable to resume playback when display is switched to 24p mode 24. Fix loading of Jukebox from network location 25. Fix wrong indication of Audio and Video description in INFO display 26. Fix prompting of password during files deletion in BROWSER even when folder protection is off 27. Fix overlapping of DNS entry portion when setting a fixed IP address for wireless connection 28. Fix unable to eject USB optical drive after being mounted by system 29. Fix displaying of parameters present in certain subtitle format 30. Remove TIME settings (not applicable to model) 31. Rename Folder Password Protection to Folder Access Protection Version v7.3.x r New Realtek SDK platform v3.x* 2. New firmware version format for tracking SDK version 3. Improved new main menu GUI (Graphical User Interface) 4. Improved new loading animation 5. Improved new Shoutcast API2.0 (Internet Radio) 6. Add function to display content rich movie cover art image and play the video instantly - Place folder.jpg and 0001.jpg in a folder containing the video - At child folder level, folder.jpg is automatically displayed in the preview window - Press SLOW button on the remote control to zoom in 0001.jpg - Press UP/DOWN button on the remote control to display other 0001.jpg images stored in other folders - Press ENTER button on the remote control to play the video *Credits to ThumbGen developer for this application *Please discuss at for more details and information 7. Add folder password protection under Setup - Misc - Folder Protection - Key in default password 0000 to turn feature On/Off - Change current password at Setup - Misc Password - Go to your desired folder to lock, press MENU button on the remote control, select LOCK and key in password - Folder will be locked and prompt for password when accessed - To unlock, go to the locked folder and press MENU button on the remote control, select UNLOCK and key in password - Folder will be unlocked 8. Add Movie Jukebox function (YAMJ - Yet Another Movie Jukebox) 9. Add support for HFS+ file system 10. Add displaying of file creation date stamp at preview window 11. Add Dolby TrueHD downmix and Passthrough (Licensed for C+ board) 12. Add Dolby Digital Plus downmix (Licensed for C+ board) 13. Add loading of screen saver at home menu level 14. Add new menu language for European version - Icelandic 15. Add HTTP server function, default port 1024 (Setup - Network - Remote Control) - Access via web browser by keying in

7 - Local network access, xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx will be the local IP address, eg. WAN access, xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx will be your router WAN IP address, eg. DDNS access, xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx will be your DDNS domain name, eg. - Upload/Download single file via HTTP - Manage your Movie/Music/Picture playlist - Bit Torrent management interface 16. Add FTP Server function, default port 21 (Setup - Network - FTP) - Configure your own desired username and password - Access via web browser by keying in ftp://username:password@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx - Local network access, xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx will be the local IP address, eg. ftp://admin:admin@ WAN access, xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx will be your router WAN IP address, eg. ftp://admin:admin@ DDNS access, xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx will be your DDNS domain name, eg. ftp://admin:admin@mydomain.dns.org - Access via FTP program on your PC (Preferred method against service disruption) - Configure to connect to your local IP address, WAN IP address or DDNS domain name - Configure to the same username and password as set on the unit - Configure to connect via default port 21 - Upload/download multiple files via FTP 17. Add Time Zone selection to Setup - System Time 18. Add new board identification to Setup - System - System Info 19. Rename RAW selection for HDMI Output and SPDIF Output under Setup - Audio to Passthrough 20. BT/SAMBA are now individual selections - BT - BitTorrent service - NAS Mode - SAMBA service 21. Fix correct time sync from Internet Time Server 22. Fix DVD navigation menu alignment *Note: The current build is on a new Realtek SDK platform, thus certain functions available in previous versions may not be available yet. Version v7.0.6 r Add new options in Setup/Video menu - Plasma mode (Dark/Dim/Light) - Screen size resolution 2. Add new optons in Setup/Network menu - Login Control (for accessing via NeighbourWeb) - Wireless Setup - Press menu button to rename Profile Name - WCN option (Windows Connect Now) 3. Add new menu language for Asian version - Thai 4. Add new menu language for European version - Slovenian - Greek 5. Add new text encoding - Arabic(CP1256) 6. Add Screen Saver timing selection (1 minute/2 minutes/5 minutes) 7. Add Subtitle default On/Off 8. Add menu for selecting Audio/Subtitle/Title/Chapter/DVD Menu - Press MENU button during video playback to display navigation menu 9. Add frames seek function during video playback (video dependent) - Press left or right button during video playback to jump to frames backward or forward. 10. Add Photo thumbnail function - At Browser, filter by Photo and then navigate to the folder containing the media

8 11. Add auto preview the first image file in a folder when selected in Browser 12. Fix displaying of Chinese characters correctly when sorted by Music Artist in Media Library 13. Improved "Add the torrent" message appearing only when pressing the MENU button on a.torrent file 14. Improved skipping of music tracks by pressing the Previous or Next button - During music playing, pressing Next button will play the next track or Previous button to play previous track 15. Improved displaying of elapsed time/total time when playing an audio file - During audio playing, press the INFO button to display details of the media Version v7.0.6 r Add new options in Setup/Video menu - Zoom Out - Hue - Saturation - AV Video System (PAL/NTSC) 2. Add new optons in Setup/Network menu - PPPoE Setup - BitTorrent and SAMBA 3. Add new menu language for Asian version - Japanese - Korean - Vietnamese 4. Add new menu language for European version - Bulgarian - Slovensky - Romania - Portuguese - Hebrew (trial) - Hungarian (trial) 5. Add new text encoding - Romania (LATIN10) - Vietnam 6. Add manual setting for system time 7. Add File Copy and Setup menu in Home menu 8. Add elapsed/total time and size display when pressing Info button during playback 9. Add sliding effects for screensaver 10. Add unicgi (Neighbour Web) application (autostart with bootup) 11. Add Play Folder/Browse Folder when accessing a DVD structured folder 12. Add support for recognising data disc 13. Add Mono L/R and Stereo support for Karaoke VCD 14. Fix self-disconnecting over wireless N connection after connected over a period of time 15. Fix Internet Radio Genre listing 16. Fix audio switch when pressing menu button when playing a BD-ISO 17. Fix audio switch when resuming from pause state for BD-ISO 18. Fix MP4 formats appearing as an audio icon instead of as a video icon 19. Fix SPDIF RAW audio mute when entering full screen playback in certain scenario 20. Fix M2T formats unrecognisable for playing 21. Improved Internet Feeds icon in home menu 22. Improved HDMI connectivity with certain TV brands/models 23. Remove Extension Info under Setup/System 24. Remove YouTube under Internet Feeds menu 25. Remove Seamless Playback from Setup/Misc and moved to Setup/Video

9 Version v7.0.6 r Add HDMI LPCM Multi-Channel support 2. Add Dolby Digital Plus pass-through support 3. Add 16:10 option for Aspect Ratio 4. Add Ken Burns effect for image viewing 5. Add Seamless Playback for zero delay in playing sequential.ts,.m2ts video formats 6. Add torrent download function in Home menu - Place.torrent file in any folder and press Menu to select "Add the torrent" - On-Screen real-time download status - Press Menu button on selected torrent download to select priority level - Press Stop button on selected torrent download to Stop torrent or Stop torrent and Delete file - On-screen client setup 7. Add Internet Feeds function in Home menu - YouTube streaming [Due to legal implications, this function is temporarily on hold] [Resource: - Picasa photo album - RSS news feeds - Flickr 8. Add search function for internet radio 9. Add WEP (HEX) and WEP (ASCII) option for wireless security 10. Add mounting of attached USB storage present in network 11. Add BD-ISO playback (more BD-ISO functions in development) 12. Add NFS support for mapping of network folders 13. Add Screen size calibration to fit video to screen - Press ZOOM IN button of the remote control during playback to fit to defined screen size 14. Add Network Host Name configuration 15. Add Japanese (S-JIS) text encoding 16. Add Korean (EUC-KR) text encoding 17. Add Thai (TIS620) text encoding 18. Add system time synchronisation with time servers 19. Add external USB DVD-ROM support** 20. Add Auto-Play function when a disc is inserted in the external USB DVD-ROM 21. Add Parental Control for disc rating 22. Fix reboot action when the power button on remote control is pressed 23. Fix lip-sync with DTS audio in fps video 24. Fix punctuation order of Hebrew text encoding 25. Fix internal subtitle in MKV to display according to default flag 26. Fix internal HDD capacity information correctly above 1TB 27. Fix Simplified/Traditional Chinese characters display under English Language Menu 28. Fix external USB DVD-ROM unable to eject once mounted 29. Fix the extra directories present when returning to Home menu from browser 30. Fix system freeze when another USB device is attached while the wireless N dongle is in use 31. Fix internal Simplified Chinese SRT subtitle present in MKV container format 32. Fix internet radio broken link 33. Improved playback of files in sequence via network 34. Remove File Copy and Setup menu from Home menu 35. Remove unicgi (Neighbour Web) application from Extension Info **Due to CSS (Content-Scrambling System) present in DVD movie discs, the system accepts only un-protected DVD movie discs. Version v7.0.6 r1757

10 1. Add subtitles menu - Subtitles selection (Internal & External) - Realtime Text Encoding - Time Sync - Colour (White,Black,Red,Green,Blue,Yellow) - Size - Position 2. Add Media Library function in Home menu 3. Add chapter mark support for MKV videos 4. Fix playback glitches when internal subtitles are switched 5. Improved playback and audio sync with fps videos 6. Improved Info details on the current played file 7. Improved Simplified Chinese text encoding for subtitles 8. Improved wireless connectivity with n USB adapter --Currently developing-- 1. Add external USB optical drive support 2. Add Auto-Play function when a disc is inserted in the USB optical drive 3. Add Parental Control for disc rating Version v7.0.6 r Add support for Bluray PGS subtitles support 2. Add message when USB host port is plugged in 3. Add highlighting of next music track in Music playback mode 4. Add hidden WIFI SSID support 5. Add subtitles position (up, down) and font size (left-decrease, right-increase) 6. Improved Internet Radio layout 7. Improved network connectivity after resuming from standby Version v7.0.6 r Add PLAYON!HD screensaver 2. Add Simplified Chinese menu language 3. Add Russian menu language 4. Add Simplified Chinese (GBK) text encoding 5. Add 1080p 24Hz option 6. Shift Browser to default selection in main menu 7. Shift file info to the top of the screen during music playback 8. Change VENUS network name to PLAYONHD Version v7.0.acryan.r647 Initial firmware release