08-09 - TELE-satellite International Magazine

NBC News is available any time
last vacation but this data is
also stored on your PC. What
will you do now?
The IPDVD box has the perfect
solution: it integrates
itself into your local network
thereby making all of that data
available for your TV where
before it could only be seen on
your PC.
And the best part is that the
box can do all of this without
needing any special configuration
or added software since a
standard PC with a fairly up to
date operating system (Windows
XP or higher) is good
enough.
In order to playback music,
video and picture data through
the IPDVD box, you simply
connect it to your local network
and then turn the PC on.
The PC should recognize
the IPDVD box and asks the
user to make the data available.
This availability takes
place through Windows Media
Player, a part of the operating
system, and is taken care
of in just a few mouse clicks.
You merely select what data
should be made available and
the rest is handled for you by
Windows and the IPDVD box.
Especially interesting is that
Windows Media Player isn’t the
only media source supported;
Bonjour (for MAC users) is also
supported as are the UPnP,
SSDP, DLNA, NSS , SMB, NFS,
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HTTP protocols and the myi-
Home, WizD, SwissCenter,
MSP Portal, Llink and GB-PVR
servers. Every user should
be able to find their matching
connection method even when
they don’t want to or can’t use
Windows Media Player.
As soon as the date is made
available, a new entry will
appear in the IPDVD Main
menu with the name of your
PC. Selecting this entry will
provide access to all of the
music, video and picture data
that you previously made
available. You can play back
MP3 music, videos, photos,
even an entire slideshow.
The list of supported video
and audio formats is so long
we had to put it in a separate
table; it shows the many capabilities
of the IPDVD box.
Throughout our tests we
had absolutely no problems
operating any of the box’s
features; everything ran fully
automatically and was so easy
to use that even newbies to
the world of multimedia would
thoroughly enjoy using this
box.
We were especially
impressed with the video
player that effortlessly played
back every known format
regardless of whether it was
a video downloaded from the
Internet, a digital satellite
receiver recording or a video
camera recording.
SD as well as HD content
is also supported! Only when
you use a larger TV can you
really enjoy all of the HD content
available via the Internet
or recorded via a satellite
receiver. The two USB jacks
on the front side can be used
with external storage devices
that can also be accessed by
the box. This is especially practical
if the pictures or videos
you want to see are still stored
in a camera. In this case, you
simply connect the camera via
a USB cable to the box making
those pictures you just shot
also available on your TV.