WHDI Reviews – Wireless HDTV News

The D-Link DSM-750 Wireless HD Dualband Draft 802.11n Media Center Extender is an extender that enables you to wireless stream your media content from a PC running Windows Vista Premium or Ultimate. It can connect to both HDTV and standard definition TV’s and is essentially an extender for your media center PC and has an inbuilt navigation menu for browsing through your media collection including photos, videos and music on your PC.

The DSM-750 uses the draft 802.11n standard to stream content wirelessly over your home’s private network. However, due to this feature, networks working on older routers might not be supported by the DSM-750 because it requires the bandwidth provided by the 802.11n standard to stream HD content seamlessly. One good thing about this device is that is uses the 5GHz band instead of using the commonly used 2.4Ghz band to make sure that there is minimal interference.

It supports full 1080p HD resolution. However, it has a limited format support which extends to Windows Media Video 9 and MPEG-2/4. It has two different user modes though — one is its primary function of acting as a Windows Media Center extender and the other mode is called Medialounge.

The Medialounger mode is essentially meant to access media from everywhere else. Such as other PC’s that have shared files on the network, NAS drives (Network Attached Storage) and also USB drives. It has one USB port in front to attached storage drives to. In addition to all this, it also allows you to watch and record live TV, essentially acting as a TiVo (without of course using the name).

One feature that I really like about the DSM-750 is the number of different outputs that it has — HDMI, Component, Co-axial, S-Video, Composite Video and digital audio out. The D-Link DSM-750 Wireless HD Dualband Draft 802.11n Media Center Extender is selling online for about $250, which is a fairly good deal for its functionalities.