Linksys DMA2200 Wireless HD Media Receiver

Linksys DMA2200

Strengths: Wireless VMC Media Extender; Linksys brand name

Weaknesses: No MyMovies support; slow; no xp media center support

Summary: I picked up both Linksys models for my home, one for the living room, and the other for the master bedroom. As the living room didn't have a DVD player, I got the DMA2200, as it had one built-in. It's nice having one less HDMI connection to worry about, and can pretty much control most of my audio/video thru one remote. I think the included LInksys remote is cheapy and crap, so I use my Logitech Harmony One instead. The codes are already in their database. The DVD player is fine. My HDTV is only 1080i, but the picture looks great. I think it is upconverting, but I'm not a video head to know the difference! ;-) The VMC interface is a bit sluggish. You also have to leave the main VMC HTPC on all day, if you want to access it. With the cost of electricity these days, this is not the best option. What I have found myself doing is to turn the comptuer on in the other room (wake it from sleep), then go to the Linksys and start watching. THus far my only knock is that it does not support the MyMovies plug-in. As a result, I cannot view my ripped DVDs. For movies converted to MPEG, I have no issues, and they play w/out jitter. I am just hoping that they provide plenty of firmware upgrades, and at some point add MyMovies ability.

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Linksys DMA2200 Wireless HD Media Receiver

Strengths: Streaming HD Easy Setup Does what it's supposed to.

Weaknesses: Pretty slow booting. Occasionally needs to be restarted.

Summary: My family loves these things. I picked up three of them and they work great. All are hard wired so I can't comment on it's wireless performance. It effortlessly handles our ATSC TV PVR requirements (which are ~2-3 hours daily) as well as movies/videos. I have the 2008 TV Pack update for VMC and it works great. The My Movies plug in works very well too. It took a couple tries to get vmcNetflix going, but it too is now working as advertised. I convert all my movies to mp4 or dvr-ms (mp2) so there are no codec issues.

The only down sides are that it takes about a minute to boot up and occasionally while using the fwd/rwd extensively, it will hang up and need to be restarted by the switch on the back. I'd say that happens once every couple weeks or so. It's response time isn't as fast as on the PC, but considering it is streaming through the network, I find it completely acceptable.

I'd definitely buy it again.

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