R_volution Player One 4K Ultra HD Media Player

Player One 

Dolby Vision and HDR10+

The best possible picture technologies for an incredible home cinema experience

The R_volution PlayerOne is a new media player compatible with Dolby Vision and HDR10+ powered by the powerful Realtek RTD1619DR chipset !

The R_volution PlayerOne is at the same time a high end media player and a media server capable of streaming content to other R_volution devices in a network through the exclusive R_share advanced streaming protocol.

The R_volution PlayerOne comes with an internal hard drive bay capable of hosting up to 32 TB of movies (USB extension possible), TV shows and music files, dual HDMI outputs and offers astonishing picture and sound quality to meet requirements of the most demanding Home theater users.

High Quality Media Player

The Uncompromised Audiovisual Quality Of The Original Film

R_volution PlayerOne is an amazing media player delivering the highest quality, outstanding performance and best possible user experience.

Our products are designed to provide our end-user customers with convenient and intuitive access to their entire movie library collection, in stunning 4K Ultra HD resolution. Your movie files are delivered to your private cinema with the highest video quality available and pure high fidelity, lossless reproductions of the original motion picture soundtracks. The R_volution PlayerOne combines the best performance possible with an utterly unique design for high-end home entertainment.

Our amazing R_video user interface provides the best AI available on the market to organize your movie library. R_video offers advanced features that allow you to create custom categories or groups of movies, browse while listening the original soundtracks of your movies in the background, download subtitles, customize the homepage and buttons, including special top banners such as director's cuts or unrated editions, or adding your own personal movie covers and backgrounds. In addition, the parental control code protects your kids from adult content.

The R_volution PlayerOne supports the majority of digital audio and video formats, including the most modern 4K HDR standards such as Dolby Vision and HDR10+, almost all recent video file formats including 4K MKVs, BD and UHD ISO files with full and fast BD/UHD Menus, HEVC video codec with one billion colors (10-Bit color encoding), VP-9, 3D video standards with 3D subtitles, high resolution audio files such as DSD, FLAC, ALAC, and MQA, and features a wide solid chassis, dual HDMI output, 4K 60p, Auro3D, Dolby Atmos and DTS:X for the best possible home theater experience. 

Dolby Vision

The ultra-vivid image of innovative visual technology Dolby Vision®, brings characters to life with darker darks, brighter brights, and a remarkable color range you can’t get anywhere else.

Experience a remarkable color palette, sharper contrasts, and incredible brightness that feel more like looking through a window than at a screen. This is HDR like you've never seen it before.

Discover subtle details you simply can’t see with a standard picture, for a viewing experience without compromise, just as the filmmakers and creators intended.

Our media player supports direct playback of full Blu-ray disc images (BDMV and ISO) with menus in Dolby Vision (MEL and FEL), as well as various file formats including MKV, MP4, TS, and M2TS. All popular Dolby Vision profiles (P4, P5, P7 MEL and FEL, P8) are supported. The extended Dolby Vision metadata is used and transmitted to the TV to improve picture quality.

Dolby Vision® 
VS10
Video Processing 

The advanced Dolby Vision VS10 video processing engine ensures maximum image quality when playing any type of content (SDR, HDR, Dolby Vision) with any type of video output signal (SDR, HDR, Dolby Vision), improves the SDR/HDR/Dolby Vision conversion quality, minimizes the effect of "posterization" ("banding") due to more advanced 12-bit video processing. This gives benefits even when using the media player with older TVs that do not support Dolby Vision.

HDR10+

The PlayerOne is compatible with HDR10+ technology. HDR10+ is the latest and most advanced HDR technology, building upon HDR10 to further enhance the viewing experience. HDR10+ signals not just the dynamic range (the ratio of light to dark) of video content on a scene-by-scene (or even frame-by-frame) basis, it also provides, with minimal metadata, the scene characteristics between bright and dark so that important detail can be kept. This enables displays to reproduce images more realistically, adhering to the creator’s intent. Whereas static HDR, such as HDR10, utilizes static tone mapping uniformly across the duration of the content, HDR10+ employs dynamic tone mapping to optimize each scene, individually increasing brightness and adding contrast to fit within a display’s capabilities.

Ultra HD

R_volution PlayerOne features HDMI 2.0b output to provide ideal compatibility with the latest UHD 4K video content such as HDR. Your videos can be uscaled up to 4K Ultra HD resolution (3840 x 2160), which is 4x the resolution of Full HD 1080p.

Designed for Ultimate Home Theater Experience

Thanks to its high-quality internal power supply specifically calibrated for digital audio and video transport, the PlayerOne offers breathtaking image quality, deep blacks, vibrant colors, exceptional image sharpness and extremely dynamic digital multi-channel sound quality and precision with a wide dynamic range.

SDR > HDR

The PlayerOne is also capable of transforming any SDR image into ultra-bright, vivid and colorful HDR if your TV is compatible with HDR technology using Dolby VS10 technology.

HDR > SDR

With the integrating VS10 processing from Dolby, any HDR content is converted into traditional SDR with perfect color grading. In addition, the video processing converts Ultra HD video content into extremely high-quality 1080p uncompressed 4:4:4 video for viewing 4K content on Full HD 1080p displays. This process increases the resolution by about 30% compared to Blu-ray on a 1080p TV or projector. With this amazing technologies combined, you can benefit from the benefits of the 4K UHD contents on your 1080p TV or projector. Less compression. More colors. More details! 

Blu-ray & 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Menu Support

Display the DVD, Blu-ray and UHD menus and get access to additional content (director's cuts, theatrical versions, bonus extras, bookmarks, etc.) This feature is compatible with both ISO and BDMV (DVD, Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D and 4K UHD). Or, if you do not want to display menus, you can start a movie immediately without trailers or warnings. The seamless branching is also perfectly supported for perfect gapless playback on director cut editions.

HDD Slot

With its 3.5 "SATA hot-swap rack, the PlayerOne is capable of supporting up to 16TB of data internally and up to 32TB using dual partition; the equivalent of about 800 Blu-rays or 400 Ultra HD Blu-ray (bit perfect) on a single hard disk. And as it is possible to exchange hard drives, you have no capacity limit! With the PlayerOne, you no longer need to worry about storage problems. R_video can manage one collection for all your drives. When you click on a movie poster that is placed on a hard drive not present in the player, R_video tells you which hard drive to insert into the player.

Hard drive not included.

R_video

A Modern Media Center

R_video offers the possibility of browsing all of your TV show episodes quickly and easily.

The PlayerOne includes R_video — the best entertainment hub available on the market, featuring an impressive user interface to explorer your movies and TV shows. R_video scans your video files located on a local drive connected to your PlayerOne, or on a NAS through the local network. Then R_video collects the cover art, background and various info such as casting, director, release date, rating, etc. Then you will just have to sit back in your home theater with your friends or family, choose your film or TV show easily. Browse a genre. Sort movies by rating, duration, or release date. Read a synopsis. Play the trailer. Then, press PLAY to enjoy your movie. After the end credit roll, wait for the auto launch of the next episode of your TV show.

"Unlike other Media Center systems, R_video is very responsive and fast."

R_video features an automatic top banner (4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, DVD, etc...), and a special top banner for Final Cut, Director's Cut, Theatrical Cut, Unrated, Disc 1/2, Bonus, Concert, Special Edition, etc. It also features: soundtracks while browsing movies or TV shows, parental control, exclusive R_video AI for the best movie identification possible, exclusive top quality multilingual movie covers, utilization of fanarts database, R_video_DB and TMDB, filtering and sorting directly from the side of the user interface, automatic playback of the next TV show episode and many more exclusive features.

Hi-Quality Backlit RC.

R_volution PlayerOne media player comes with Backlit IR remote control (accessory included). 

Direct access & shortcut buttons.

Switch instantly from one application to another (R_video or Explorer) using the direct access buttons: image ratio, 3D, subtitles, audio tracks, repeat mode, ... The remote control of the PlayerOne feature true STOP button, and direct playback access to 1 min. forward / backward and 10 sec. forward / backward.

Wide Range IR Sensor

The PlayerOne features a high sensibility infrared sensor that cover a wide angle on long distance (60° / 26 ft). In addition, the remote control is equipped with two IR diodes. In addition, The PlayerOne comes with an IR extender. This allows you to place your PlayerOne behind closed doors in a cabinet or in another room and still be able to control them from in front of your TV. It comes with self stick tape on the back of the IR bud for easy installation on any flat surface.

Dual HDMI Output.

R_volution PlayerOne offers two HDMI outputs – one HDMI Out Main port for connecting to the latest UHD 4K TVs, projectors and A/V receivers, and an additional HDMI Out Audio Only port dedicated to audio for connecting to older A/V receivers and for better audio performances. The HDMI Audio Only port features a high-stability, high-precision clock. This design significantly reduces jitter and eliminates timing errors, allowing you to enjoy your audio & video contents with increased accuracy when you use the audio-only HDMI output port for connecting the audio signal to your A/V receiver. In addition, on the video output, the audio stream is automatically muted when the HDMI Audio Only output is used, thereby reducing the effects of video noise on the main HDMI output.

The connector indications are printed in both directions, so that you can read them easily in the correct direction when you connect your device.

Gold-Plated Ports.

R_volution PlayerOne features high quality gold-plated output ports for HD/4K video and HD digital audio, L/R analog audio and coaxial for better sonic accuracy and more detailed natural sound as well as less corrosive effect over time. R_volution’s gold-plated ports use advanced engineering methods and the highest-quality materials to reduce noise and interference and deliver cleaner, natural, more accurate sound from your components. Gold-plated materials are also used for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth antennas as well as the CVBS output.

MODERN USER INTERFACE

• Fast and Powerfull

• Animated Backgrounds

• Movie Soundtracks

• Multiroom

• Parental Control

• Filters and Sorts

• Proprietary Database

• Auto detection of audio codec
  for each audio language

MINIMALIST AND QUALITY DESIGN

• LED Display

• USB port on the front panel

• Power Button on the front

• True power OFF on the back 

• Wide Range IR Sensor + IP control

• Hidden Rack Enclosure for Internal HDD

• Internal Power Supply

Real Cinema

Cinema movies are shot at 24 frames per second (fps), but most video or Blu-ray files are recorded at 23.976 fps. Today, many multimedia players output a video signal at 24,000 Hz. However, this conversion generates problems of stuttering, in particular on video projectors. R_volution Real Cinema technology maintains the original frame rate of the file, whether in 23.976 fps or 24,000 fps until the final display in order to enjoy the same fluidity as in the cinema and preserve the original integrity of the work displayed. On the other hand, thanks to autoframerate, the player automatically switches to the correct output frequency depending on the frame rate of the file, namely: 23.976 Hz, 24 Hz, 50 Hz and 59.94 Hz (60 Hz) depending on the type of file being played.

Integration.

R_volution products have been specially designed to operate in high-end installations and integrations using multi-level security locking, IP and IR control codes for ProControl, RTI, Control4, Crestron, Savant, Philips Pronto, Elan, URC and Logitech Harmony, a Middle Atlantic rack mount kit for high-end custom integrations.

"With ISO files from original video discs, the video bitrate is 4x higher than streaming services — meaning less data loss. Image and sound are crystal clear and more realistic for the best possible home theater experience."

Audio/Video Sync. adjustment

On the R_volution PlayerOne, it is possible to adjust the audio / video sync forwards and backwards. This pro-level functionality is especially useful when using an external scaler.

A universal media player.

● Dual HDMI: Use the second HDMI to separate audio and video for the best performances and enjoy the 4K HDR, while using an old-generation AV receiver or soundbar non-4K compatible. You can enjoy both HD sound and 4K HDR without having to replace your AV receiver or soundbar.
● Video processing: The VS10 video processing technologie offers an outstanding picture quality with improved dynamics, accurate colorimetry, increased contrast, solid deinterlacing and impressive upscaling (up to 4K resolution). Even on a Full HD 1080p TV or a front projector, you will be astounded by the picture of your display! 3D also offers amazing image depth and a great immersive effect.
● Dolby Vision and HDR10+: Display your HDR, HDR10+ and Dolby Vision video content on a compatible display.
● HDR Conversion: Convert your HDR video content into SDR to display it on your 1080p TV or projector managed by a brand new video processing for accurate color grading accuracy and luminance curve conversion.
● 10/12-Bit: Take advantage of powerful 10/12-bit YUV hardware decoding for professional-quality video display and benefit from increased nuance and reduced "posterization" ("banding") effect.
● REC. 2020: Enjoy a wider color space for more saturated and richer colors.
● 4K 50/60p: Display your 4K 50p/60p video content in 2160p at 50 Hz or 60 Hz.
● Real Cinema: Advanced auto framerate detection compatible with all video frequencies (23.976 / 24 / 29.97 / 30 / 50 / 59.94 / 60 Hz).
● Direct Output: Display your videos in their original resolution and frequency without scaling processing.
● Widevine L1 DRM: Watch premium online video services in HD and UHD. 
Warning! Netflix and Disney+ are not compatible. Amazon Prime Video is compatible up to 1080p resolution. YouTube is compatible up to 4K resolution. Attention! Streaming services may stop at any time depending on content providers' compatibility requirements.
● 3D Video Support: Enjoy all your 3D video files (3D BD ISO, MKV 3D MVC).
● Network Player: Connect your PlayerOne to your local network and enjoy your content from a PC/MAC or a NAS via SMB or NFS.
● SMB Server: Access the contents located on the internal hard drives of the R_volution Player (or a connected hard drive) from a computer connected via local network.
● MKV Player: Playback SD, HD and UHD video content in MKV and other modern video file containers and formats, including top quality HEVC/H.265 video codec with very high bit-rates > 300 Mbp/s.
● BD / UHD ISO: Display the DVD, Blu-ray and UHD menus and access to the additional contents, director's cut or theatrical version, bonus and extras, bookmarks, etc. with seamless branching support.
● HDD Rack Option with Hot Swap Function: Easily and quickly insert and exchange internal 3.5'' SATA hard drives up to 16 TB.
● USB Ports: Conveniently connect HDDs, USB flash drives, USB card readers and other USB storage devices.
● Ports USB 3.1 and Type-C: Read or transfer your files in ultra high speed. Note: USB Type-C and USB 3.1 ports cannot be used simultaneously.
● Full Range of A/V Connectors: S/PDIF coaxial and optical audio output, audio analogue output (cinch), CVBS video analog output, HDMI Main (Deep Color, xvYCC, 12 bits, and CEC), HDMI Audio Only.
● Multichannel home cinema audio: Bitstream up to 11.2.4, downmix stereo.
● Hi-Res Music Playback: Playback Hi-Res Audio quality (up to 24-bit) music files in various formats (DSD, FLAC, AIFF, ALAC, WavPack, APE, DTS, AC3, etc).
● Playback Memory: Resume playback from the last position.
● Backlit Remote Control: High quality backlit remote control with convenient direct access and shortcuts, wide range (60° / 26 ft) and recordable buttons to control another device.
● LED Screen: LED display HH:MM:SS controlled with dimmer option. Display the clock or the remaining time during playback. 
● Bluetooth 5.0: Connect your wireless devices via Bluetooth such as joysticks, headphones, connected speakers ...
● Computer Mouse: Connect a computer mouse in USB to control third-party applications.
● Complete File Management System: copy, cut, past, delete, rename.
● Open GUI: Add apps and movies in Favorite section.

Technical Specifications.

● Chipset: Realtek RTD1619DR.
● CPU: ARM Cortex-A55 (6-core). +77% faster than 4-core ARM A53 used in the previous generation media players.
● GPU: ARM Mali-G51 MP3. +50% faster than Mali T-820 used in the previous generation media players.
● Operating System: Linux + Android 9.
● DSP: Video and Audio DSP with hardware acceleration. Native hardware 10-bit YUV support. Hardware performance optimizations for R_video UI.
● Cache: 1 MB L2.
● RAM: 4 GB.

● ROM: 32 GB NAN eMMC. 
● Connectors: gold-plated HDMI Audio Video 2.0b (HDCP 2.2, CEC, Deep Color, 12-bit, xvYCC, MHL 3.0), HDMI Audio Only 1.4a, 2x USB 2.0, 1x USB 3.1, 1x USB Type-C, gold-plated CVBS video analog output (both analog and digital video outputs are active at the same time), gold-plated audio analog RCA (both analog and digital video outputs are active at the same time), gold-plated coaxial and S/PDIF optical audio output (TO-slink), Ethernet Gigabit 10/100/1000 Gb/s, Wi-Fi 2.4 & 5 GHz with 2 gold-plated removable antennas, Bluetooth with dedicated antenna, IR input for IR extender, AC input, AC button On/Off, power LED and multi-segment LED display HH:MM:SS controlled with dimmer option.
● HDD Rack Enclosure Option: Easily and quickly insert and exchange internal 3.5'' SATA hard drives up to 16 TB (18 and 20 TB are supported only if you are using 2 partitions).
● Media Sources: External HDD (USB), USB devices (USB flash drive, USB card reader, etc), PC and NAS in local network (SMB 2), other Internet and local network media sources. External multi-bay USB storage enclosures supported.
● Easy and Fast File Transfers: up to 90 MB/s via SATA and USB 3.1 / 115 MB/s via Ethernet.
● SMB Client/Server: Direct access from another R_volution Player / computer through your local network. Samba Client up to SMB 2. R_share technology.
● Video Codecs: HEVC, H.265, x265 (up to Main10 Level 6.1 High 60p in 4K UHD), MVC, AVC, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, VC-1, H.264/x.264 (up to 60p in Full HD and 24p/20 Mbps in 4K UHD), FLV, AVS, XVID, DIVX (from version 4), Sorenson Spark L70, VP9 Profile 2 (up to 4K 60p and HDR) ; ultra high bitrate support (up to 400 Mbit/s in HEVC 4K UHD).
● Video File Formats: UHD ISO, 3D BD ISO, BD ISO, BDMV, MKV, MKV 3D, MK3D, MPEG-TS, MPEG-PS, MPEG, MPE, MPG, TS, TP, M2TS, VOB, AVI, MOV, MP4, QT, WebM, DVD-ISO, VIDEO_TS, RMVB, RM, DAT, VOB, 3GP, FLV, DAT, AVCHD 2.0 (AVCHD 3D, AVHD Progressive).
● Dolby Vision support: ISO, BDMV, MKV, MPEG-TS, TS, M2TS, MP4.

● Widevine L1 DRM: Watch premium online video services in 1080p and UHD. Security Level 1 (L1) is a complete processing performed in a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE). This level refers to the highest level of DRM (hardware DRM) and let R_volution Player to stream premium video services at resolutions up to UHD quality. Level 2 cannot stream videos higher than 480p.
● Video Output Flexibility: Output video in any resolution and format from SD to 1080p, Ultra HD (3840x2160) and 4K (4096x2160). Up to 4K 60p. Display your movies in true 24p (23,976 Hz ouput).

● Audio / Video Sync: Adjust audio / video sync forward / backward (in ms).
● Audio Codecs: AC-3 / Dolby Digital, EAC3, DTS, DTS-WAV, MPEG, MP3, ALAC (Apple lossless), APE (Monkey's Audio), M4A, M4A, AIFF, WAV, WavPack, VSELP, FLAC (2.0 only), AAC, AAC-LC, HEAAC, HE-AAC v2, AMR-NB, OGG (Ogg/Vorbis), RA_COOK, LPCM, PCM, ADPCM, FLA, MQA; lossless and audiophiles formats support (up to 32-bit / 384 kHz), SACD ISO, SACD DSF, SACD DFF.
● SACD (DSD): Play top quality Super Audio CD (DSD) music files in all any popular formats (ISO, DFF, DSF), including both stereo and multichannel files as well as files which use DST compression. Multichannel DSD files can be output to HDMI as high quality multichannel PCM (up to 176.4kHz). Stereo DSD files can be output to HDMI and S/PDIF as high quality stereo PCM (up to 176.4kHz).
● Multichannel home cinema audio: Bitstream, downmix stereo (DTS, DTS-HD MA, DTS-HD HRA, DTS:X, DTS:X Pro, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital EX, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Atmos, Auro 3D).

● Playlist file formats: M3U, PLS, CUE.
● Subtitle Formats: SRT (Subrip / external), SUB (MicroDVD) (external), text (MKV), SSA/ASS (MKV, external), VobSub (MP4, MKV, SUB/IDX external), SMI (Sami), IDX, PGS (UHD ISO, BD ISO, BDMV, M2TS, MKV), DVBSUB (DVB-T, DVB-S, DVB-C).
● Subtitle Options: Subtitle download feature. Forced subtitles support for MKV, ISO and BDMV (simultaneous display of multiple subtites no supported). Customization of sync, size, color and encoding. Changing the vertical position of subtitles, including on Blu-ray (PGS) subtitles. Multiple external subtitles supported. Customization of the default subtitles.

● 3D Hardware Acceleration: OpenGL.
● Photo File Formats: JPEG (hardware decoding), PNG, BMP and GIF. Slideshow, transition effects, picture rotation, zoom, browse playlist, repeat, shuffle.
● Supported Formatting: FAT16/FAT32 (read-write), EXT2/EXT3/EXT4 (read-write), NTFS (read-write), exFAT (read-write), HFS/HFS+ (Mac OS Standard/Extended) (read-only), BTRFS (read-write)
● Ethernet: 10/100/1000 Mb/s.
● Wi-Fi: Dual Band 2.4+5 GHz 802.11b/g/n/ac 2T2R, two external Wi-Fi antennas (gold-plated and removable).
● Bluetooth: BT5.0, separate external Bluetooth antenna.
● Android 9.0: Install and enjoy additional apps via GooglePlay or APK files. 

Warning! Some Android apps are not suitable for use with the remote control. In this case, use a connected computer mouse or an AirMouse (not supplied).
● Network Playback: Special optimisation of the network, guaranteeing better performances of the local network playback no matter which type of media thanks to SMB protocol (HEVC UHD files included) via Gigabit Ethernet or Ethernet 10/100.
● Universal RC: Integrate seamlessly into smart home installations via IR and IP codes. 

 Review

"The Player One delivers excellent sharpness, even in dark areas. The contributions of HDR10 or Dolby Vision in terms of colors (tones, gradations), textures and contrasts are perfectly reproduced. SD (DVD) or HD (Blu-ray) file upscaling to 4K resolution is excellent. A direct output mode without any processing can be activated if you prefer to entrust this type of processing to the display.The PlayerOne is positioned (indirectly) on a par with the best Blu-ray players, adding the ability to manage all types of video or audio files and create a library simply and quickly. You have more or less the same comfort of navigation and organization as an interface like that of Netflix. But it's your collection and it is physically available at any time."

Dimensions (W × H × D)

16,92 × 3,14 × 11,22in (without carton)
43.0 × 8 × 28.5 cm (without carton)
18,89 × 7,08 × 12,99in (inner carton)
48.0 × 18.0 × 33.0 cm (inner carton)
19,48 × 7,67 × 13,58in (outer carton)
49.5 × 19.5 × 34.5 cm (outer carton)

Weight

GW: 7Kg / 15.43 lbs (with carton)
NW: 6Kg / 13.22 lbs (without carton)

Limited Warranty

2 years

Certification

RoHS, CE, FCC

Country Of Origin

Hong Kong

EAN

3760115010178

TARIC Number

8521900090

Operating Temperature

10~30°C

Operating Humidity

30%~70%

Consumption

Max consumption: 42W
Typical: 39W (Without HDD)
High power standby: 9W
Low power standby: 0.02W

Rack Mount Kit

In option

Internal Power Supply

AC 100-240V

Accessories

● High Quality Backlite IR Remote Control
● IR Extender
● 8K HDMI Cable 
● Wi-Fi Antennas x2
● RF Antenna
● Power Cables x4 (EU, US, UK, AU)

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