Linksys has launched its new Media Center Extender with DVD Player (DMA2200) and (DMA2100).
These new products will team with existing Linksys offerings, such as Dual-Band Wireless-N Routers, NAS200 Network Storage System and WVC54GC Home Monitoring Camera, to offer customers a complete home entertainment and a security solution.
The new extenders allow support for popular video and audio codecs such as Xvid, as well as Windows Media® Video HD files; also have the ability to send protected HD content to additional rooms, including recorded TV from over-the-air ATSC or Cable Card tuners along with movies and music available from providers.
Both new Media Center Extenders are designed to leverage Dual-Band Wireless-N technology, to receive content contained on a Media Center PC.
Dual-band capabilities enable consumers to use the less-crowded 5 GHz wireless spectrum, to separate the network streams that contain their entertainment content from those that contain traditional data content; thus enabling greater network reliability when streaming latency sensitive video or audio.
Media Center Extenders are designed to enable Plug-Ins that are designed for Media Center PCs to be used; e.g. recipe depositories, alarm clocks, weather reports, comic strips, lottery results and Home Monitoring Cameras.
The DMA2200 and DMA2100 will be available through Linksys e-commerce resellers at around £229.99 and £199.99 respectively; the WVC54GC Camera is available for an ESP of £69.99.
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