D-Link MediaLounge Media Center Extender DSM-750

[MrBoylan]

Lurking inside your Windows Vista Home Premium or Ultimate PC is a multimedia powerhouse yearning to break free. This D-Link Media Center Extender delivers it to the best seats in the house.

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[glenngg]

Can you please explain what was meant when you reviewed the D-Link
MediaLounge 750 when you said "While MediaLounge does not require Windows Visa or Media Center to link to my PC". If the D-Link MediaLounge 750 does not require Windows Media Center and it has no support for ActiveTV then how does it connect to the PC, and what applications can it run through the connection(see link below)?

http://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/pr...r-review.shtml

[chiarella]

Chris Chiarella here, thanks for your questions. My comment in the D-Link MediaLounge review about DSM-750's ability to access a PC running an OS other than Vista or WinXP was meant to let readers know that, even though D-Link and Microsoft are emphasizing the Windows compatibility, it can still find and play files on computers with other operating systems, although we lose some of the elegance of the interface and some the functionality. Streaming content already on your hard drive should be no problem, although I believe that you lose the program guide. Any live TV recording that you do on your hard drive should be playable on the DSM-750, provided it is in a compatible format.

It connects to the PC via Ethernet cable or Wi-Fi.

It's my understanding that the active-TV ONLINE feature you mentioned is not supported by the DSM-750, but it is available on the DSM-520 MediaLounge Wireless HD Media Player, via a firmware upgrade.

Hope this helps.