Network music players have evolved quite a bit in the last two years, and now D-Link wants to take them a step further with its DSM-120 MediaLounge Wireless Music Player. This allows you to listen to music stored on your desktop PC's hard drive as long as you remain close to a Wi-Fi wireless network access point.
The DSM-120 MediaLounge also can connect via a wired ethernet connection or via a USB connection (a USB flash drive, USB hard drive, or really, any device/handheld that identifies itself as hard drive when connected via a USB cable). In addition, the player has a compartment for adding a 2.5-inch internal hard drive for a accessing stored tunes when the PC is turned off.
You can pump the tunes out with a mini jack, optical audio out, or composite audio, and the device can even handle WMA DRM files.
At a retail price of $229, I doubt if D-Link will sell many of these. Who wants an expensive device that only works with 100 or 200 feet of a Wi-Fi access point? Other devices at that price contain a lot of internal storage so that are not limited to "hot spots."
Keep your money, buy an iPod or a similar product with a hard drive in it.
If you do want to learn more about the D-Link's DSM-120 MediaLounge wireless music player, look at http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/1742/d-link_dsm-120_medialounge
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