Synology DiskStation DS216play is a two-bay feature-rich NAS with powerful multimedia processing and real-time transcoding of 4K Ultra HD source content, perfect for multimedia and file sharing. Synology DS216play is backed with Synology's 2-year limited warranty.
4K Ultra HD Entertainment Center
Prepare to embrace the heart-touching festival of ultra-high-definition media contents. Synology DiskStation DS216play features real-time 4K Ultra HD (3840 x 2160) video transcoding, bringing more complete support to the latest multimedia file formats and contents. DS216play is also a feature-rich NAS server with a dual-core CPU and 1GB RAM, delivering an average 107MB/s reading and 91MB/s writing speed under RAID 1 configuration in a Windows environment. Now users can enjoy on-demand ultra-high-quality video transcoding and file sharing offered exclusively by DS216play.
Personal Multimedia Bank
DS216play helps you easily manage your multimedia contents and share them across Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms. With Video Station, you can organize your digital video library with comprehensive media information, watch 4K Ultra HD movies and films, or record your favorite TV programs with a DVB-T/DVB-S stick. Photo Station's intuitive design allows you to effortlessly organize photos into customized categories, smart albums and blog posts, and link them to social networking websites within a few clicks. Audio Station comes with built-in lyrics plugin, Internet radio and lossless audio formats support and provides music playback via DLNA, AirPlay, and Bluetooth devices (A Bluetooth dongle is required).
Anywhere/Anytime Availability
Synology provides mobile applications that allow you to enjoy the full variety of your multimedia library even when on the go, allowing you to reach for your private albums, music and video collection at home in DS216play. Available on iOS, Android and Windows Phone platforms, DS photo, DS audio, and DS video mobilize your Photo Station, Audio Station and Video Station, placing terabytes of content at your fingertips. What's more, DS download makes it possible for you to manage and monitor your download tasks remotely while you can access DS216play content with DS file whenever required.
DLNA-certified Media Server
As a ready DLNA DMS (Digital Media Server), DS216play comes with the capability to host digital multimedia contents for remote playback. Once configured in your network, DS216play is able to stream music, photos and videos to DLNA-compliant devices, thus enabling users to enjoy their collection on larger screens or with quality speakers. Synology even makes it possible for users to browse and select DiskStation contents using DS audio to designate a DLNA player within the same local network for audio playback.
Box Contains
1 x DS216play main unit
Welcome note
accessory pack
AC power adapter
RJ-45 LAN cable
Top comments
Bizness
28 Jul 163#4
Couldn't transcode it's way out of a wet paper bag.
That aside, decent.
Latest comments (20)
hEiFoN
28 Jul 16#20
Gone :disappointed:
chaz_187
28 Jul 16#19
been waiting for a nas drive to go down in price and just my luck its back up
looking to get a synology ds216j (normal version) with 6tb
OrribleHarry
28 Jul 16#18
Out of all the NAS I have tried Synology are the best, mainly due to the superb operating system. Although I don't like Plex so I'd be happy with this.
However anyone that does like Plex XPEnology is basically the same OS that synology use but can run on most hardware so a decent spec server with XPEnology would be best of both.
hitman007
28 Jul 16#15
The QNAP TVS-871T-i7-16G 8 Bay one seems reasonable for £2200 from amazon
GamerOn to hitman007
28 Jul 16#17
That's the one I've gone for
aeonf242
28 Jul 16#16
Changed price
stephenr
28 Jul 16#14
QNAP TVS-471-i3-4G
DB2k
28 Jul 16#13
I like my one of these. Plex works well into the Amazon Fire TV and it seems good to me. I don't know much about the transcoding side and don't use surround sound but its good for media and also for things like time machine backups etc.
Didn't really think the NVIDIA shield could be considered a NAS. Maybe with some storage attached?
davidorridge
28 Jul 16#8
nvidia shield TV just got Plex server with transcoding.
hitman007
28 Jul 16#7
This being the case, what NAS would you use instead, that has better transcoding?
JayJaz
28 Jul 16#6
Been tracking the price for the last week or so since I accidentally bought two external hard drives instead of WD clouds from the outlet thanks to a helpful post which I misunderstood :confused:
It was £192. Seems to be £193 at the moment?
Bizness
28 Jul 163#4
Couldn't transcode it's way out of a wet paper bag.
That aside, decent.
japes to Bizness
28 Jul 161#5
it can if you use the DS app but then you lose any hint of DTS support. Very disappointing.
Joshimitsu91
28 Jul 16#3
I wonder if Plex will start supporting hardware transcoding for Synology now that they do it on the Shield?
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4K Ultra HD Entertainment Center
Prepare to embrace the heart-touching festival of ultra-high-definition media contents. Synology DiskStation DS216play features real-time 4K Ultra HD (3840 x 2160) video transcoding, bringing more complete support to the latest multimedia file formats and contents. DS216play is also a feature-rich NAS server with a dual-core CPU and 1GB RAM, delivering an average 107MB/s reading and 91MB/s writing speed under RAID 1 configuration in a Windows environment. Now users can enjoy on-demand ultra-high-quality video transcoding and file sharing offered exclusively by DS216play.
Personal Multimedia Bank
DS216play helps you easily manage your multimedia contents and share them across Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms. With Video Station, you can organize your digital video library with comprehensive media information, watch 4K Ultra HD movies and films, or record your favorite TV programs with a DVB-T/DVB-S stick. Photo Station's intuitive design allows you to effortlessly organize photos into customized categories, smart albums and blog posts, and link them to social networking websites within a few clicks. Audio Station comes with built-in lyrics plugin, Internet radio and lossless audio formats support and provides music playback via DLNA, AirPlay, and Bluetooth devices (A Bluetooth dongle is required).
Anywhere/Anytime Availability
Synology provides mobile applications that allow you to enjoy the full variety of your multimedia library even when on the go, allowing you to reach for your private albums, music and video collection at home in DS216play. Available on iOS, Android and Windows Phone platforms, DS photo, DS audio, and DS video mobilize your Photo Station, Audio Station and Video Station, placing terabytes of content at your fingertips. What's more, DS download makes it possible for you to manage and monitor your download tasks remotely while you can access DS216play content with DS file whenever required.
DLNA-certified Media Server
As a ready DLNA DMS (Digital Media Server), DS216play comes with the capability to host digital multimedia contents for remote playback. Once configured in your network, DS216play is able to stream music, photos and videos to DLNA-compliant devices, thus enabling users to enjoy their collection on larger screens or with quality speakers. Synology even makes it possible for users to browse and select DiskStation contents using DS audio to designate a DLNA player within the same local network for audio playback.
Box Contains
1 x DS216play main unit
Welcome note
accessory pack
AC power adapter
RJ-45 LAN cable
Top comments
That aside, decent.
Latest comments (20)
looking to get a synology ds216j (normal version) with 6tb
However anyone that does like Plex XPEnology is basically the same OS that synology use but can run on most hardware so a decent spec server with XPEnology would be best of both.
It was £192. Seems to be £193 at the moment?
That aside, decent.