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D-Link adds Viiv-verified media player

Tim Higgins

December 19, 2006

D-Link today announced it has begun shipment of a new networked media player that is Intel Viiv technology verified. The DSM-510 MediaLounge Wireless Media Player supports Ethernet and 802.11b/g wireless network playback of music, image and video files from either Intel Viiv technolgy PCs or devices supporting UPnP AV.

AV connections include HDMI and Composite Audio and Video outputs as well as Optical Digital Audio with 5.1 support. There is also a USB 2.0 port for connection to flash memory, digital cameras and portable music and video players.

Supported video formats include MPEG-1/2/4, WMV9, XVID with MP3 or PCM, AVI (MPEG-4 layer only) and DVR-MS. Audio formats are MP3, WAV Audio, WMA and AIFF (PCM only) and Ogg Vorbis. Image formats supported are JPEG and JPEG2000, TIFF 9 (RGB only), non-compressed BMP, PNG and GIF. The media streaming protocol supported is HTTP.

The DSM-510 features a convenient remote control and easy-to-navigate TV user interface for hassle-free browsing of digital content. It works with standard Windows XP computers through Microsoft's Windows Media Connect and other Universal Plug and Play (UpnP) media servers.

The DSM-510 is available now for $239.99 MSRP.

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