Wireless media adapter
- — 09 February, 2004 07:49
The living room is one place you don’t want any more cables. And, too, you don’t want to trek over to your PC to look at digital photos or listen to MP3s. Linksys (which is now owned by Cisco) has released its new Wireless-B Media Adapter that plugs into the S-Video or composite connections on your TV. You can connect to your hi-fi as well, although you need the TV to see the menus. A remote control crammed with buttons makes it easy to navigate the interface on screen.
The wizard makes setup straightforward, but at the moment you have to run it on a Windows XP PC. The software that shares out folders of pictures (JPEG, GIF, TIF, BMP) and music (MP3, WMA and M3U or ASX playlists) can run on only one PC at a time, but you can share network folders. The WMA11B wasn’t really fast enough for video, but this is a simple and relatively cheap way to get photos and music from your PC onto your TV screen and hi-fi.
Linksys Wireless-B Media Adapter WMA11B
Price: $398
Distributor: Harris Technology
Phone: 1300 139 999
URL: www.ht.com.au; www.linksys.com
