D-Link's DSM-320 Wireless Media Reviewed

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=3217' target='_blank'>http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=3217</a><br /><br /></div>"Many of you are probably in the same situation: a collection of thousands of images (in my case more than 3GB of them), hundreds of music albums, a few movies. All sitting in your computer, somewhere downstairs. Somewhere too small for your visitors to gather together and look at this multimedia content. In an ideal situation I'd like to have this content available in my lounge, where I could go through it from my sofa, showing the pictures from our last vacation trip, while playing my preferred music genre.<br /><br />The D-Link DSM-320 Wireless Media player promises exactly this. This slim component connects to a home network, either through Ethernet or WLAN (wi-fi). D-Link claims the DSM-320 adheres to the Universal Plug-&-Play (uPnP) AV specification. According to the manual, the DSM-320 is the first client device to be certified and comply with the new Intel Networked Media Product Requirements (INMPR) standard, allowing it to communicate with other UPnP AV media devices."<br /><br />Mauricio Freitas from Geekzone takes this player for a spin, and the result isn't good: it's being returned for a refund. Do any of you own this player? If so, what do you think of it?