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Review: D-Link DSM-330 DivX Connected Extender |
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By Mike Garcen (ShadyMG) | Published Thursday, 31 July 2008 |
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DivX made its name as the first truly popular way to pirat...err....watch compressed movies over your computer. It caused tons of hassles for those of us who had built lower powered HTPC's, only to have lip sync or stuttering problems as our poor left over 400MHz CPU's could not handle it. My how times have changed... DivX is arguably the defacto video compression codec used around the world. For those unaware, DivX compresses a video file into a much smaller file (think what MP3 is to those huge WAV files).
The D-Link DivX DSM-330 is the first hardware venture from the company as they try to join the constantly growing number of set top box devices aiming to hold a place on your entertainment shelf. The idea is simple--deliver not just your DivX video content, but most multimedia content, from your loud media server wirelessly (or wired) to this low powered, silent and small device connected in your home theater. So how does it fare against the more well known and established Windows Media Center Extenders hitting the market with a similar price tag? This $250 device clearly has it's work cut out for DivX, so let's see how it does!
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