D-Link DSM-320 Wireless Media Player, Audio/Photo/Video, 802.11g

by D-Link

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 x 1 inches ; 6.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 7.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0001WXTF0
• Item model number: DSM-320
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (151 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #57,587 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 2, 2006

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

D-Link introduces the latest addition to its multimedia family of products: The D-Link DSM-320 wireless media player. The DSM-320 unites your network with your home entertainment center, allowing you to share, access, and enjoy your digital media--whether it's music, videos, or photos--in the comfort of your living room.

The DSM-320 supports 802.11g wireless standards with transfer speeds up to 54 Mbps, giving you maximum throughput for your digital media. Setting up the DSM-320 wireless media player is simple, and the sleek design makes it a natural addition to your home entertainment center. Audio-video (AV) jacks on the back panel of the DSM-320 can be plugged directly into your TV, letting you access digital media content stored on your PC, browse your music files, watch your videos, and display your photos. In addition, the DSM-320 lets you access online media contents such as Radio@AOL on your TV through an existing broadband Internet connection. The DSM-320 adheres to the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) AV specification, and complies with Intel Networked Media Product Requirements (INMPR), allowing it to communicate with other UPnP AV media devices seamlessly.

The DSM-320 wireless media player supports and streams virtually all audio, video, and image formats stored on your PC. With support for MP3, WMA, and WAV audio files, listen to all of your music on your stereo. Watch your stored videos in MPEG-1, -2, or -4, AVI, QuickTime, or Xvid format on your TV, or enjoy slideshows of your favorite photos in JPEG, JPEG2000, TIFF, GIF, BMP, or PNG formats. Better yet, it’s easy to access all your media files through the TV Interface using the remote control included with the DSM-320. Experience your digital media like never before with the DSM-320 wireless media player. The DSM-320 includes everything you need to instantly access and play your music, videos, and photos using your home entertainment center.

Product Description

D-Link's DSM-320 Wireless Media Adapter is a next generation multimedia product that streams all your favorite media files to your home entertainment center. It supports 802.11g wireless standards with transfer speeds up to 54Mbps. The DSM-320 supports all popular media formats including MP3, WAV, and WMA for audio files, MPEG1/2/4, AVI, and DivX4/5 for video, and JPEG, GIF, BMP, and PNG for images. Plug the DSM-320 directly into your TV to easily access all your media content through the user-friendly TV interface with the included remote control. Experience your digital media like never before with the DSM-320 Wireless Media Adapter.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

80 of 83 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A solid 20 hrs to get running, August 2, 2004

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This review is from: D-Link DSM-320 Wireless Media Player, Audio/Photo/Video, 802.11g (Personal Computers)

My expectations were fairly low after having read all the other reviews, but I really liked the option that you get from adding a home media drive from D-Link to this set-up (DSM 602H/4H). I've been waiting for a media server that doesn't require me to keep my PC running in my bedroom 24/7. The network drive from D-Link and this media server looked like an awesome combination.

In an effort not to repeat everything that's already been said ... here are the things I believe haven't been mentioned yet ... first and foremost, don't expect to spend any less than a solid weekend getting this up and running .. and even after you do I expect multiple hours will be spent updating firmware etc. over the next few months (at least I hope there are firmware updates coming)

The physical connection was easy and intuitive, but getting the player up and running and connected to my wireless network was a royal pain. I tried to use my media drive as it is advertised by D-link, but apparantly that's not possible without a firmware update. Of course, that firmware update is still in beta release ... do I need to say more. It actually royally p*sses me off that D-Link advertise the combination of the media home drive and the media server, before they can actually deliver that option. I wrote a glowing review of the home media drive, but that was before I updated the firmware to enable use with the media server ... after the firmware was updated, I can't access the management interface for the drive for more than one or two pages before the device has to be restarted (read pull power plug and re-insert) .. the drive doesn't seem to stream the media evenly, so every single song comes across with large gaps where nothing is playing ... pictures don't come across in the right format and shows up on the screen in some oddly twisted aspect ratio ... the media server software that's resident in the media drive firmware update apparantly doesn't read ID3 tags correctly either; it doesn't pick up genres, and artist and album data isn't alphabitized

On a slight possitive note, the media server software running off my PC works much better. It streams evenly, ID3 tags seem correct and pictures are correctly formatted. I still haven't been able to stream a single movie across the media server, but that's personally less of an issue for me personally.

Oh, and although I didn't want to repeat other reviewers .. I have to say this ... THE REMOTE CONTROL ABSOLUTELY STINKS ... worst piece of hardware I've ever held in my hand ... period ... and that includes all those awefull Sony-Ericson phones I've tried over the years ;-)

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good out of the box, better customized, November 26, 2005

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J. Gariano - See all my reviews
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This review is from: D-Link DSM-320 Wireless Media Player, Audio/Photo/Video, 802.11g (Personal Computers)

Below I describe a few UPnP compliant software applications that enable you to make much better use of the DSM-320. Without these applications, I would describe the DSM-320 as a good product. With these applications, I would describe it as a great product. Sorry if this review is a little technical, but I want to get this information out there. It took me some time to figure it out.

The DSM-320 comes with software called a "media server" that runs on your PC and serves music, pictures, and video to the unit over your home network. Because the DSM-320 is UPnP compliant, it is compatible with any UPnP media server. Twonkyvision and TVersity make media servers that are superior to the media server that comes with the DSM-320. Twonkyvision ([...]) enables you to stream music from the Internet (you do this by adding Shoutcast or .m3u streams as playlists to the media server), and it also works with the Cidero media controller (see next paragraph). TVersity ([...]) allows you to stream music over the internet and watch internet TV, but at the time of writing does not work with the Cidero media controller. The Twonkyvision music server is a free download, and the full media server (for music, pictures, and video) is $10 - $20. The TVersity media server is a free download.

Another really cool UPnP compliant PC application that works with the DSM-320 is the Cidero media controller ([...]). This is a freeware Java program that allows you to control the DSM-320 from your PC. With it, for example, you can queue up any number of mp3 songs on your computer, or choose Shoutcast radio stations, and play, pause, stop, and shuffle them from your PC. I prefer controlling the DSM-320 this way as opposed to the television based GUI, because then I don't have to have the television on. [A few notes on using the Cidero media controller with the DSM-320. First, be careful with the volume control. Cidero will let you turn it up louder than it should go, and hence cause the DSM-320 to distort sound at high volume levels. I therefore always turn the DSM-320 volume to the max from the television GUI, and then never touch it from Cidero. Second, there are some quirks about controlling image playback from Cidero. The Cidero website describes a workaround, but if I'm going to watch images on the DSM-320, I already have the television on, and so I just use the regular television GUI).

In short, I have a DSM-320 that is connected to my A/V receiver, and I always leave the units on. I also run the Twonkyvision music server with the Cidero controller on my laptop, and I always leave the laptop on. This enables me to play Internet radio and my giant PC mp3 collection on my home stereo, any time I want, and control it all from my laptop. Pretty darn cool, and IMHO, definitely worth the price of the DSM-320.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very cool with the right media server otherwise limited, May 20, 2005

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Ronen Mizrahi (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: D-Link DSM-320 Wireless Media Player, Audio/Photo/Video, 802.11g (Personal Computers)

This thing requires running a media server software on one's PC. The choice of this software is crucial since with most of them, including the software it ships with, it is a very limited device. However there is a media server that makes this box very versatile and much more useful, it can be found at http://www.tversity.com

The DLink Media Server software ships with this device and when used you end up not being able to play WMV, or ipod AAC files. Also high bitrate MP3 files won't play. The online content that comes with it is very limited and pretty much useless.

The TVersity Media Server adds support for WMV playback as well as ipod AAC, high bitrate mp3 and many many more formats. It also makes it possible to play virtually any online content and it comes with the ability to play all the movie trailers from ifilm on your TV as well as Radio and TV stations from around the world. Very cool stuff!