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Allows you to access digital media content stored on your PC, browse your music files, watch your videos, and display your photos
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Connects Wirelessly Using 802.11g or Via Ethernet
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Compatible with Windows 98SE, Me, 2000 or XP
Editorial Reviews:
Product Description D-Link DSM-320 Wireless Media Player - The Wireless Media Player from D-Link merges your abundant digital entertainment collection on your PC, with the comfort and convenience of your living room. It's slim design fits into entertainment centers easily, and once attached to your TV, you can wirelessly stream your audio, photo, and video files. Navigation of your content is easy with D-Link's intuitive user interface and included remote control! Audio Compatibility - MP3, WMA, WAV,&Radio AOL Video Compatibility - MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, AVI, QuickTime,&XviD Image Compatibility - JPEG, JPEG2000, TIFF, GIF, BMP,&PNG
Such potential! (but alas...)August 10, 2008 I struggled over buying this thing. I wanted a turn-key solution; I'm just getting too old to trial-and-error all this stuff and find the 'magic combination' to the modern-wonder of watching electronic-media on your home entertainment system.
Still - the price dropped enough I said "what the heck" and dove in. D-link has been a solid company with other products, why not? Do glean goodies from all the other reviews, but I'll highlight my PROs and CONs here:
GOOD: * UI decent, actual playback of media not too bad. (mostly video, I have not tried to suffer audio or music; our TIVO does that and it does it well so why mess with it).
* The machine can detect and talk well across a home-network.
BAD: * Audio is WAY OFF (too low) compared to your other input devices; everytime we have to crank the volume WAY up and then remember to take it down when going back to other media sources. D-link needs to fix this.
* Playback of video was troublesome at first (I stream media from a Synology CS470e which did an OK job before the last firmware upgrade and does a fabulous job now with the v2 of the firmware). Playback now is hampered by no FF or REV! You better not pause either; it's re-starts-ville. Working with D-link email support to figure out why/who/how this all happens. It's a bug that's media-agnostic and server-agnostic as well.
* Boot-up is slow; either a sluggish ramp-up or alot of start-up loading. Sugg just leave the blasted thing on when you start your entertainment system (our Harmony remote is trained to leave this puppy alone on power-cycles.)
Overall my suggestions: (Don't set your expectations high on streaming video content to your entertainment system easily here. I did not try the wireless config; just pulled a CAT-5 and called it done. If I had 20-20 hindsight I'd have waited till D-link released the next firmware for this baby (with hopes it clears up alot of problems) and then give it another try.) That's kinda the story with my synology, the next version of the firmware was so much more mature and powerful it's like getting a whole new box for free.
Good luck!
Don't waste your moneyJune 23, 2008 D-Link DSM-320 Wireless Media Player, Audio/Photo/Video, 802.11g This product appears to be running a linux-based OS, and will "crash" on any video file that is over 4 GB in size, and sometimes on smaller files. I was able to get a full refund after sending samples to their engineers who never fixed the problems. I replaced this unit with a LINKSYS WMCE54AG, which is a real Media Center Extender (and cost about $100 more) although it will randomly crash on occasion requiring a complete reboot by cycling power.
It should be noted that none of these units is supported on WINDOWS VISTA: in the inimitable Microsoft fashion, VISTA will only support the XBOX 360 as a media center extender. This is why I still run the XP version of Media Center edition and have refused to "upgrade" to VISTA.
DSM 320 Media PlayerJune 13, 2008 I bought the DMS 320 to use with Tversity to stream content from the internet to my TV. The 320 actually works pretty good. I can send video and audio via wireless and the picture is regular definition 640x480. The problem is there are only a few streaming channels that work with Tversity and the Dlink media server software only plays content that you have on your hard drive. The bottom line is if you have lots of movies or music on your PC this isn't a bad option for getting them to your TV or stereo. If you want to display streaming content especially flash, you'd be better off using a RF modulator and the S Video output of your video card (If your PC has Svideo out).
JunkMay 24, 2008 This was recommended to me by a friend and I have to say it's the worst thing he ever suggested. I just took this thing out into the street and destroyed it. I never could get it to play music without stopping and starting and almost every time I turned it on the "No Server Found" message came up and I had to reset all the settings.
Solid, fairly priced, entry level media playerMay 14, 2008 If you are expecting too much from the D-Link DSM-320, you will probably be disappointed. Having two of them now, it honestly rates around a 2.5 out of 5. It is frustrating because several popular formats won't play on it. It claims to play AVI files, but h.260, as well as a host of other popular versions of AVI and MP4 files will not play. The audio tends to get out of sync toward the end of a feature-length film, not to mention that the audio is too low anyway. Fast forward is quirky and rewind just flat out sucks, and the remote could be a little better. It is supposed to be wireless, but if your AP only runs in B mode, playback will be very choppy...but wired with a CAT-5 and using a short shot of wireless in G mode worked perfectly for me, even with both units playing at the same time. That said, I ditched the Windows software for Mediatomb running on Ubuntu linux, with Iriverter as my main encoder. It is possible to get a 90 minute film down to 800 MB +/- a hundred MB or so, and put 200 movies in two - three hundred gig. Even at that compression, video looks near-cable quality to cable quality, in my opinion. Animations and non-letterbox TV series look exceptionally good on my TV (not a large screen TV). Higher quality is certainly possible, but I was looking for the tightest compression that was still watchable. It is even possible to play back a VOB file (but if the VOB is in multiple parts, it will only play one part at a time). With all that said, it is hard to beat the price of the DSM-320 (just plan on getting some amplified speakers to go along with it to boost the audio). The trick with the DSM-320 is that you have to stick with an encoder that you know will work with it, like Nero Recode or the free and very easy to use, Iriverter. If you think you are going to just download and watch movies on your TV, you are in for a big disappointment, because 3 out 4 of them probably won't play. But if you stick with formats that you know will work on it, it will work well enough that you should feel you are getting your money's worth from it. I will say, for all of its suckage, I like it enough that I will probably get one more for another room in the future. You just have to 1) realize its faults when you order it. 2) Realize its price compared to other media players. 3) Realize that it is fairly priced for what it does...and if you aren't expecting too much from it, you will be very happy. Really, you can spend less than 100.00 dollars and in 30 - 45 minutes (or less), stream movies, MP3s, and jpgs to your TV. If you are a perfectionist or want HDTV, spend 200.00 to 300.00-plus on the higher-end stuff...just don't get a DSM-320 and then PMS over it, because that is what you will do if you are expecting too much from this entry level device. (And here is a hint: If the audio gets out of sync, hit rewind and then play, and it usually re-syncs, or at least it does for me).
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