D-Link's DPG-1200 PC on TV Media Player
D-Link's soon to be released
DPG-1200 takes an interesting approach to media streaming. Instead of building a device that has the ability to play all the different formats and having to deal with the development of such a complex device, they have opted for the pass the buck approach. They claim that you will be able to stream anything that you can see on your PC. There are no images of the interface so we aren't sure how this exactly works. For connection options they offer standard Ethernet or 802.11g( with WPA/WPA2 support ). There is no HDMI option sadly, but they do offer Component and Composite for the video connection. It ships with a very cool remote that has a trackball on it so you can control your PC with the remote. This would seem like just screen sharing to us and we aren't sure how this would look or work, but it they do it right it could be very cool. One of our biggest complaints about photo streamers has always been the poor implementations that most of them have. If you can just use your PC's resources on the TV you can have access to a bunch of software that can handle photos in a much more elegant way.
This is not yet available, but we would be very interested in seeing how it works. If the price is right this could be a great option for people wanting to watch Internet videos or look at photos from their latest trip on their big TV. As always we'll try to find out more and keep you posted.
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Posted by David Ficocello at March 20, 2008 6:00 AM
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