Specifications as taken from the AC Ryan website.

FEATURES

SPECIFICATIONS

 A/V Out

• HDMI 1.3 interface up to 1080p
• Composite Audio / Video
• Y/ Pb / Pr Video
• SPDIF coaxial (digital audio)
• SPDIF Optical TOSLink (digital audio)

Storage Supported

• EZ-Drive slot - 3.5 SATA/SATA2 HDD up to 2TB
• 2.5 HDD support via adaptor frame

Media Cards Supported

SD, SDHC (SD High Capacity), MMC, MS, MSPro

USB Supported

• USB 3.0 and 2.0 Interfaces
• Add ports with USB hubs, USB card readers
• 2x USB 2.0 (USB-A)
• 1x USB 3.0 Slave Port (USB-B)

External File System Supported

• FAT, FAT32, NTFS, EXT3, HFS+ w/out Journaling

Network - Wired

• Gigabit

Network - Wireless (Optional)

• Wireless WLAN 802.11b/g/n 300Mbps via USB WLAN adaptor (optional, not incl.)
• Supports WLAN security WEP, WPA
• Supports WLAN Peer-to-Peer (connects wireless without router)

Network - Wireless Built-In (selected models only)

• Wireless-N via a PCI-e port with dual antenna

Video Formats Supported

• AVI / MKV / TS / TP / TRP / M2TS / MPG /MP4 / MOV / M4V / VOB / ISO / DVD-ISO/ IFO / DAT/ WMV / ASF / RM / RMVB / / BD-ISO
• FLV resolution up to 720p / 1080i / 1080p

Video Codecs Supported

• MPEG-1 / MPEG-2 / MPEG-4 SP/ASP/AVC
• (H.264 | x264) / XviD / DivX / WMV9 (VC-1)/ RealVideo 8/9/10 (up to 720P)

Video Output Supported

• PAL / NTSC / 480p / 576p / 720p / 1080i
• 50Hz / 1080i 60Hz / 1080p 50Hz / 1080p
• 60Hz / 1080p 24FPS

Audio Formats Supported

• MP3 / MP2 / WMA / AAC / FLAC / WAV /OGG Vorbis / PCM / LPCM / MS-ADPCM /LC-AAC / HE-AAC / COOK / RA-Lossless

Audio Output Supported

• Stereo
• Dolby Digital AC3 5.1 (passthrough & downmix to stereo)
• Dolby Digital Plus 7.1 (passthrough)
• Dolby TrueHD 7.1 (passthrough & downmix to stereo)
• DTS Digital Surround 5.1 (passthrough & downmix to stereo)
• AAC 7.1 (passthrough & downmix to stereo)
• FLAC

Image Formats Supported

• JPEG, HD JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIF, PNG

Subtitles Format Supported

• SRT, SMI, SSA, IDX/SUB, SUB

Character Sets Supported (Needed for Subtitles)

• Unicode (UTF8), BIG5 (Traditional Chinese),
• Western, Turkish, Central European,
• Greek, Cyrillic, SE European, Russian,
• Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese, Thai

Cooling

• 40mm Low-Noise Fan (for HDD Cooling)

I have to say it looks like it will play ANYTHING you can throw at it, which is pretty impressive, I have to say I could be here for hours writing about the specs and features, but within 5 minutes it would become mundane as there is just too much to talk about. As you can see from the specs, AC Ryan have just about thought of everything with this model to make it desirable, but the big question is will it all works as it should and will it finally be a product to make me stop using my HTPC?

 Time to get the product out of the box and take a look, shall we?

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