LinkSYS Media Center Extender with DVD Player DMA2200 - PC World Magazine
While we like the LinkSYS Media Center Extender with DVD Player DMA2200, we found using Media Center too unreliable to replace our Freeview boxes, let alone a service such as Sky+. Devices such as the LinkSYS Media Center Extender with DVD Player DMA2200 enable you to connect your television to your computer via a home network and control Media Center from the comfort of your couch. Setup of the LinkSYS Media Center Extender with DVD Player DMA2200 is relatively painless providing you’re running a version of Vista with Windows Media Center (Vista Home Premium or Ultimate). Once it’s on your network you simply fire up Media Center on your PC and select the device in the Settings menu, the LinkSYS Media Center Extender with DVD Player DMA2200 puts an eight-digit number on screen, which you type into your PC and from then on you can use the DMA2200 to control Media Center on your PC. It also doesn’t help that we’ve found Media Center to become extremely unhappy if its aerial signal isn’t 100 percent, with the menu hanging, crashing and resetting the LinkSYS Media Center Extender with DVD Player DMA2200 periodically. It was when we had to input the eight-digit sync code into Media Center for the third time that we decided the LinkSYS Media Center Extender with DVD Player DMA2200 wasn’t the TV solution we were looking for. Read more
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