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Don't buy this. PlayOn worked ok with the D-link DSM, aside from not being to stream videos, music, or pictures. The video backward/forward commands dont work. Menus and GUI is horrible, non intuitive. Completely worthless. This is an out-dated piece of junk. Firmware on box is useless, impossible to upgrade, slow, and crashes often. Accessing media servers from one's PC/MAC is a challenge and connections and data are often dropped, regardless of wireless or wired network connections.
The player has all the video and audio outputs you'll ever need, e.g. Divx and VOB files(video), AC3 and DTS (audio). I'm using the wired ethernet connection.Even with all these features, this product is, as well, the best value for money in its category. First, it is easy to install and configure; it's a very nice looking piece of equipment; and most of all, it works beautifully. I highly recommend this product. Also, the player is not limited to AVI files smaller than 2GB, as alluded to in the FAQ of the manual.
hands down. This product is way better than advertised even by the manufacturer. It plays many more formats than advertised, e.g. composite, component and HDMI, along with analog two stereo, optical and coax digital cable.
Connected with PlayOn software on Windows Home Server.HDMI output is a nice addition. Local media videos and music work well, also.The PlayOn software had a few glitches to begin with, but PlayOn is constantly updating their software and it is currently working very well. This unit has worked well for me. Netflix and Hulu aremy favorites.
I could never get the DSM-520 to connect to Active-TV application. We ended up having to cold start the unit with the memory stick in the USB drive before it would do anything.Even after we downloaded the firmware, it did not help the situation with Active-TV. After selecting Active-TV from the menu selections I could wait several minutes without any feedback wondering if it was going to try to find my PC holding the Active-TV application.The support number I received is never used for anything as far as I can tell and for the next 5 attempts to get someone who knew anything at all about the DSM-520. On my sixth support call I to be very adamant that I needed to speak to level 3 support. The agent could not get off the phone fast enough. I could locate photos on my PC to share but that only proved that part of the DSM-520 actually worked; I could never connect to Active-TV.
I had to give my basic information each time. This unit seemed to have great difficulty locating the software on the USB drive. I quickly ran into problems. Eventually, he suggested that I upgrade the Active-TV application from a download from the D-Link website.
I'm gladly returning this product and I'm unlikely to buy another D-Link product. I shared out my desktop with the support person so that he could troubleshoot real time. The site is hard to navigate unless you want to see tons of advertised D-Link products. I bought it with the intention of using it to stream Active-TV which was one of its main selling points.
I placed a support call and was given a case number. The response from the incredibly clumsy DSM-520 interface was so slow that I could barely get anything done. The person I dealt with at this level was adequate on basic troubleshooting on this model. He eventually said that he thought this was a hardware problem and that I should return the unit.
Received the D-Link DSM-520 in a timely manner. I had to tell him that "no, this is not fixed I need for you to stay on the line". We downloaded firmware.
- Did not support NAS file shares Overall, completely underwhelmed by it. I have owned a Mvix 760 for the last year and it finally broke. I decided to give this a try thinking it might be slicker and easier to use for my wife. I ended up returning it (first thing I have ever returned on Amazon) for the following reasons: - FF/REW is 4x ONLY and can't be used at the same time as the search function (you have a choice of either to search or ff) - Audio/Video out of sync after ff or search - While it worked w/ TVersity, it was clunky at best.
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