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Linksys Media Center Extender
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List Price: $360.18
Our Price: Too low to display
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Linksys
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Average Customer Rating:   
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Linksys
EAN: 0745883581771
Feature: Bring your digital music, movies, and photos to your TV or home theater
Includes Mp3 Player: 0
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Linksys
Manufacturer: Linksys
Model: DMA2100
Modem Description: n/a
Publisher: Linksys
Studio: Linksys
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Features
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Bring your digital music, movies, and photos to your TV or home theater
Allows you to share your photos, music and movies on your computer with friends and family
Uses existing high-speed Wireless-N home network
Easily navigate menus with a single learning remote
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Good for the price!
Comment: This product has changed how we watch our media in our home. Now, instead of being a slave to my computer for my music and videos, I can use my entertainment center in the living room, and it sounds so much better.
Pros: Easy set up, the wireless connected right away after entering my WPA key and I've had no issues with connections or speed (I only have a wireless G router). The menus are easy to navigate, just like on my media center PC and the picture and sound quality are better than I had expected. The box will also work with the MCE add-ons that you can download off of the web, like MCE Weather and an ebay plug in etc.
Cons: Will only play video files in Xvid (avi) format!!! It will give you an error that says it is an unrecognized file type if you try to play something like a Divx video. The only work around for this is to use a video converter to convert your videos into a recognized format. Be advised, just because it will play on the media center on the PC, does NOT mean that it will work on the extender. Last con is the remote, it works fine, but it feels cheap, some of the buttons require direct pressure to register and the numbering on them, seems to already be coming off a couple of buttons after a month. That's not a huge deal to me, but its not a problem I had encountered before.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good Performance
Comment: I had looked at purchasing a media extender when the prices were >$300 and decided to wait. Glad I waited for the prices to drop. I bought a basic D-Link wireless N router (DIR615) and paired it with the media extender. It works well. I don't have a high def source so I cannot comment on its performance on other than recorded TV thru Microsoft's Windows Media Center. I use it much like a DVR. In several weeks of use the connection to the computer only burped once. The PC is in an adjacent room about 20ft away with a couple of walls and a cabinent between them. I am thinking of buying a second media extender to work with a lynksys wireless g but I am concerned about the speed of the wireless connection.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Solid device hampered only by the limitations of Media Center
Comment: For quite a while, I've been looking to find a better way to play my DVD isos on my TV without burning copies. The DMA 2100 does the job, but not without some trickery to fool Media Center into seeing my movie library. The device itself was easy to set set up, and admirably connects with enough speed to stream video. The HDMI upsized quality of my 480p DVDs is excellent - much better than my Panasonic upsizing DVD player. At it's current sale price, its a great fit to my home theater. I should note it also survived a 6-foot drop without any problem except a chipped cover.
Customer Rating:
Summary: great product for the price
Comment: I bought the extender when Linksys was offering a rebate; paid $94. That is significantly less than competitors. Installation was a breeze. I connected it to the TV and my cat5 network, turned it on, and my Vista media center started talking to it as soon as I entered the extender serial number. Viewing recorded TV on the extender is just as clear as on my primary media center TV; it does take maybe a second longer for the extender to react to commands, because it is passing those commands across my network, but I am very pleased with the product and its performance. I only use it to watch programs that were recorded on a Vista media center
Customer Rating:
Summary: Got a great deal on this extender!
Comment: I have been waiting until the price went down to purchase one of these units. I watched the deal on Amazon and it was $119.99. This was the best price I had seen, but the deal kept getting better! Amazon had an additional $20 off Linksys products, plus Bill Me Later was offering $15 off of a purchase of $100 or more. Plus it qualified for Free Shipping! I got it shipped to my house for $84.99!!! I love this box. It brought TV upstairs to us with DVR capibilities. It has worked great for us. I am still working on hacks to play from my DVD Library, but none of the minor issues I have had with it have been a problem. If you have a Vista Media Center and want to watch your content on other TV's in the house, then this product is for you!
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