How Does This Work?

SAAER45

SAAER45

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This was today’s Woot item, and was sold out long before I even woke up; it is an “ADS MXL-581 Media-Link Entertainment Receiver”. Woot claims:

 Turn your PC into an entertainment center
 Play digital music from your PC to your stereo – no need to record CDs
 Connect to Internet sites and play on your stereo
 Composite, S-Video, Component (Progressive and Interlaced)
 Video Output: NTSC 29.97fps full DV 720 x 480 interlaced
 Audio Output: Stereo (Right and Left RCA), SPDIF Digital Audio (optical and coaxial)
 View photo slides shows with background music on your TV
 Play recorded TV shows and home movies on your TV
 150 MHz 32 ARM processor
 Digital Audio/video decoder
 Supports MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, and AVI video formats
 Supports MPEG Audio layer 1 & 2, MP3, AC3, and WMA audio formats
 Supports JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG photo and graphic formats

How does this work, and what exactly does it do?

Here is the Woot link for today:
http://www.woot.com/
And for when it’s gone tomorrow, here is another link:
http://www.saveateagle.com/mxl-581-v04.html?ovchn=OTHER&ovcpn=Froogle&ovcrn=MXL-581-V04&ovtac=CMP

Also, if there is another brand or model you would recommend, I’m open for suggestions too…

Thanks In Advance
 
[-0MEGA-];467472 said:
It uses your wired or wireless network to stream media.
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So I connect the thing with the wireless card into my home stereo and send my music from the computer to the stereo through my wireless router? Or I plug the thing with the wireless card into my TV and send a show I recorded with my TV Tuner from the computer to the TV through my wireless router?
 
The device already has an 802.11g wireless card built in, in addition to the wired port. All you have to do is hook the device up to your stereo/tv, make sure its connected to the network, install the software that comes with the device on a home pc, and then you can share videos and audio over the wired/wireless network to either a tv or stereo.
 
That one is on the cheap side, and doesn't even support true HDTV resolutions. I would try to find one that is of higher quality before buying that.

I read some of the comments, and they said that this was a decent unit, but the woot deal was only $20 off original price.
 
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