Product Review: D-Link Wireless HD Media Player

The D-Link Wireless HD Media Player is a fantastic high definition media player that streams video and audio content, plays Active-TV content and other internet content wirelessly to your TV.

Ease of Use, Performance: 23/25, Look & Feel: 23/25,
Features 25/25, How much I enjoy 24/25

Total: 95/100

Media players for your home entertainment center can be an additional component or a centerpiece to your enjoyment along with your high definition television. The D-Link Media Player model DSM-520 is a fantastic media player that connects to a television in several ways as well as wirelessly connects to your PC to stream media.

Streaming media is a relatively new technology that is still evolving and becoming more and more commonplace in people's homes. The video and audio is simply passed through your network to your television from a PC and the internet using the media player. Although the technology has been out for some time now the actual use and the various ways of doing the different things with the video and internet content continue to change and improve.

Streaming video is something that I have just started playing around with and have really received a big jump with the purchase of my PlayStation 3 as well as receiving the D-Link DSM-520. The D-Link media player works very much like the streaming video from the PlayStation 3 to the PSP that you can also watch movies and music on. You can take one device such as your computer or the PlayStation 3 and have movies, music or other content and play them through your network to your television.

The D-Link Media player does a remarkable job of connecting your computer network to your television and gives you several options for entertainment such as direct play of movies, music and video or downloading and watching content directly from many movie and video providers. You can connect to the internet directly through your network router, download movies and other content, listen to internet radio and watch videos from several service providers that are in partnership with D-Link.