D-Link DPG-1200 PC-on-TV 802.11g Media Player
by D-Link
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Manufacturer: D-LinkAudio: English (Original Language)
Format: CD
Platform: Windows
Model: DPG-1200
Color: BLACKWHITE
Product features:
- The PC-on-TV takes care of file formats by simply streaming the file playing on your PC to your big screen TV2
- With multiple video outputs to choose from, the PC-on-TV can connect to almost any TV.
- The PC-on-TV allows you to connect to a network- enabled computer located in a different part of the house
- Navigate around your screen with the trackball and get exactly where you want to go on your PC like you would with your mouse
- The D-Link PC-on-TV Media Player lets you use your television to watch movies, view photos and listen to music that are playing on your desktop
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of D-Link DPG-1200 PC-on-TV 802.11g Media Player
Customer Review: How to use this product correctly.
Summary: 4 Stars
I first tried this product using a laptop with 802.11g. I was streaming video from various sites on the internet (watching movies) and then putting them in fullscreen mode. I experimented with photo and video mode. Video mode is lower resolution.
Now, using the 802.11g on my laptop and 802.11g on the device, on an 802.11b/g/n network (My router is a DIR-655).
This resulted in choppy video. The audio was fine, but the video wasn't.
Eventually, I realized that the video streaming to my laptop and then the screen being streamed to the device was just too much bandwidth. This is why the video is choppy (as seen in many reviews).
The solution is to increase the bandwidth of your laptop/PC. So, I hooked up ethernet to my laptop and turned off the wifi card and lo and behold, in video mode only, the quality was quite good. No choppy video. It worked great!!!!
Now, one weird thing that happened is the dlink software turned on the 802.11g card even though I had ethernet installed. I don't know why and have sent an email to them to figure out why. I hope that everything just works through the network and there isn't anything prioritized connecting directly to the DPG box.
Because of the weird thing above, I do not know if replacing my 802.11g card with an 802.11n card will also fix the problem with choppy video. A USB 802.11n card may fix it. So, thats my next experiment when I get a chance.
It isn't convenient for me to hook ethernet directly to my laptop as it isn't normally close to my router.
Note that since the problem is related to bandwidth on the laptop, hooking the DPG to ethernet is unlikely to fix the problem (but you never know).
The second problem with this device is that when the software runs, it redirects the audio to it's own driver, and you lose audio on your PC, but a convenient solution is to install a free utility called STADS that places a widget on the toolbar that allows you to redirect audio to your laptop's speakers. Note that when you do this, you may need to restart your browser as when software runs, it picks it's audio driver at startup, so you need to restart some software (like youtube). I've found that restarting the browser is the easiest solution.
Fortunately, the remote control on this device can select photo or video mode with a single button. This is very convenient. I was able to handle SXGA quite comfortably for non-video work and I suspect with higher bandwidth, if you run a video on your PC (not streaming from the web) that it might even work in photo mode (higher resolution). I don't know yet.
Also note that even when video is jittery, it is watchable. The software seems to skip frames automatically....so rather than jitter, you see bad sync between audio and video and some jerky movements on the screen, but the video itself isn't noisy or anything.
I also have encountered that when you connect and disconnect a bunch of times to the DPG, it can become hung and needs to be power cycled to fix. I can live with that.
For the price (I got it for $72 from Frys), it's pretty darn good.
Note that the remote also has a pop-up keyboard on the screen and can also be used like a phone to enter alphanumerics. There are some other nice features, such as the down arrow will go from one to the next search result on google and hitting enter will select that result....so you can browse the web from your TV.
Is slower than typing, but isn't bad.
I recommend this product. The only other product I've seen kind of like this is made by internetVue, where it uses your existing wireless network (which is the way it should work).
Note that it doesn't support windows 7 yet....or linux.
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