Product Description

Sharing your photos, music and movies on your computer with friends and family has been made easy by the DMA 2200 Media Center Extender from Linksys. The device allows you to view digital photos, movies and high definition programs on your TV, and listen to downloaded music on your home theater sound system. It even enables accessing digital content and Internet services from your Microsoft Windows Vista Premium or Ultimate Media Center PC and wirelessly stream it to your home entertainment system. Its single learning remote helps you to easily navigate menus. The media extender uses existing high-speed Wireless-N home network and includes built-in upscaling DVD player.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1422 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Linksys
• Model: DMA2200
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 11.00 pounds

Features

• 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
• Comes built-in with an upscaling DVD player

From the Manufacturer

Access movies, your music library, family photos and HDTV programming from your Media Center PC and stream it all to your living room TV or home theater. New Linksys Media Center Extenders give you access to the entertainment content on your Microsoft Windows Vista Premium or Ultimate PC to enjoy in the comfort of your living room. Pause or rewind live TV, record sporting events or episodes of your favorite TV shows and save them for later viewing. Quickly navigate through elegant menus and programming guides. Access online movie, music and other Internet services to expand your entertainment options.

The Linksys DMA2200 integrates the latest in 1080i upscaling DVD players with Windows Media Center and streams your digital music, movies and photos to any TV in your home without running wires. With elegant and easy-to-navigate menu screens, you can play DVDs, view family slide shows, browse your music collection by cover art, listen to entire playlists or choose from a vast selection of Internet Radio stations from all over the world.

The Linksys Media Center Extender and your Windows Vista Media Center PC give you a complete PVR solution--allowing you to watch, pause, rewind and record live TV (PC-embedded or optional TV tuner required). In addition to traditional TV, you also have access to a broad set of popular Internet video services that enable you to download the latest movie releases or stream the latest releases from Showtime, Fox Sports, Nickelodeon, and more. 

Leveraging the robust bandwidth capacity of dual-band Wireless-N, the DMA2200 has been engineered to quickly stream rich, high-definition content directly from your Media Center PC to your HDTV and surround-sound system. Let the Linksys DMA2200 bring your digital media collection out into the living room for the whole family to enjoy.

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Customer Reviews

It works great
I wanted to start by saying that I was a little skeptical of extenders, probably because I remember the first generation 4 or 5 years ago and how they just didn't perform well and were a bear to setup and use. I bought this for my wife, who likes to watch tv in our bedroom and records a lot of shows on our Vista PC downstairs. The setup was easy and although we don't use it everyday, it works well and I'm suprised at the quality of the streamed video and audio. I was expecting some blockiness and stuttering, but it seems to buffer all of that and it is the same quality as my direct cable feed. I did not pay full price as I bought this on sale for close to 70% off. I'm not sure it is worth full retail, but that is just my opinion. This is not a high end AV product, it is a very good extender for watching TV, movies, pictures, etc from a remote PC and I'm not sure that I would hook it to a 60" flat screen and use it as my primary input, but it may be able to handle that type of setup.

Overall, I'm very pleased and would recommend this for a remote TV setup like a bedroom, etc.

The value extender
The unit works well and is silent, which is a great advantage over the xbox when used as an extender. The price is right! on the downside, the menus are not as snappy as a Media center PC, or the xbox 360 - not deal breaker slow, but could be better.

Works for me!
I paired the DMA 2200 with a Linksys WRT610N wireless N Router. Setup was easy and Linksys recommends a wireless connection for best results. I have to say that I only use it for streaming TV shows and sports that I record with Media Center. So far I have had no problems with streaming High Definition football games from my outside antenna, or Standard Definition Programs off of cable. My PC is a P4 with two 320 gig SATA hard drives 2 gigs of ram and two Win TV Tuner Cards one is a Win TV HVR- 1600 the other is a Win TV PVR-500 , the operating system is Vista Home Premium. The only thing that I could say would be a concern is the startup, after turning the unit on, it takes about 45 seconds before the menu displays, also navigating through the menus is also sluggish. I paid $129.95 for this unit and for that price I think it's worth it.