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Electronics : D-Link DSM-520 MediaLounge Wireless HD Media Player |
- All my digital content at my finger tips in the living room...Yeah!I was scared to purchase this product based on some of the reviews but just had to give it a try as there is really nothing else out there like. I was tired of having to put my laptop next to the 50" plasma to watch downloaded AVIs or if I wanted to access music from my network to play on the home stereo. The D-Link DSM-520 Media Lounge takes care of this almost perfectly! With HDMI, optical audio & coax digital audio outs it connects to our digital home stereo & HD TV BEAUTIFULLY!!! I had the entire system set up in less than an hour! The only thing the system doesn't handle well is fast forward and rewind during video playback which sometimes works fine and other times doesn't work well. The on screen display is very easy to navigate but tends to be a bit sluggish at times (no biggie). The bottom line: If you want easy access to all your digital content (music, video, photos) from you computer on your HD TV & home stereo, this product delivers better than any other product currently on the market. Combine that with the affordable price and you have a great buy here!
*****be sure to use tVersity streaming media server software. It's free and is much more full function than the software Dlink provides*****
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- Not Used MuchNice product but it gets boring after a while. Didn;t use it as much as i thought i would. Maybe I'll buy again when the price drops.
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- bad experiecneI expected to use USB interface to load photos and videos. The bad news is that the speed of USB interface is too slow. It can only support bitrate lower than 800kbps. It will be stuck once the bitrate of the video is higher. That doesn't make sense. I emailed this problem to service, no response.
Several months later, the LED for power indicator didn't work anymore.
It is really a bad experience.
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- Great ProductThis is a great product, it does everything I hoped it would. I use it 100% over my wireless network streaming videos, and it works perfect. I did use Tversity instead of the server that came with it because of other reviews but it plays all my videos I don't have to worry about what format they are in. Only problem I have had was with a camcorder recording that was 12 gigs in size, it made it to about 10gigs then froze but that's not surprissing.
Fast foreword isn't fast but you can't expect it to be because it is streaming over a network so it can only go so fast. Remote works great, very easy to use, setup took about 10 minutes from opening the box to watching my first video. I would highly reccomend this to everyone who likes watching tv shows that they have downloaded, movies, music and sharing photos on a large screen.
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- D Link DSM-520I have recieved 2 of these items from Amazon. The first has a defective remote control which had to be sent back and second works fine. Setup of the DSM-520 itself is a breeze, however the wireless networking of the computer was a headache and a half. It doesn't respond well to firewalls of any type to include the windows firewall. I had it operating wirelessly one day and the next day it wouldn't play any files. I have since given up on the wireless aspect and have hard wired it with a 50' Cat 5 cable. It works as required in this setup and saves me a lot of processing time to convert my XVID files to DVD and burning to watch. The setup directions are for those with a more than rudimentary knowledge of networking and leave something to be desired. But the product works as it should. Support from DLINK is a joke. I sent 2 emails for support and recieved 0 replies. Good luck there.
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