PlayOn is a streaming media brand and software suite that enables users to view and record videos from numerous online content providers.

PlayOn Cloud is an online service for recording digital video streams, accessible via native iOS or Android mobile device applications.

The recording feature of PlayOn acts as a DVR for streaming videos, creating an MPEG-4 file which can be transferred to supported media devices.

The recording functionality inserts chapter marks at the locations of advertisements, allowing users to automatically skip commercials when watching via a native companion applications, directly in the PlayOn Desktop player on a PC, or via a variety of other DLNA-compliant media devices.

[2] In March 2020, PlayOn.TV Australia was launched to provide the PlayOn Cloud app with region-specific features for the Australian audience.

It also acts as a digital media server to streaming devices, game consoles, televisions, and set-top boxes to watch recorded videos from online content providers such as Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Video[4] PlayOn Home uses HTTP Streaming to communicate with devices such as Roku, Chromecast, iPad, iPhone, Android, Wii, and Wii U, working both as an Internet client to access online media and as a UPnP media server to serve videos to compliant devices.

[6] PlayOn Desktop uses the technology standard Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), as defined by the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA), to communicate with networked gaming consoles like the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and other Internet ready DLNA enabled devices.

Similarly, recordings can be downloaded and viewed on the user's PC, or on home-networked devices, using any media streaming software.

Videos recorded with PlayOn Desktop can be viewed via a device that supports the technology standard Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) as defined by the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA).