Gateway has upgraded it's wireless DVD player with an 802.11g card, the ADC-320 is up to five times faster than it's "b" predecessor. The unit can now theoretically stream up to 300 feet away from the PC at 54 megabits per second under "ideal conditions".
| "Customers today have most of their digital content stored on a PC that they want to get into a living room. That's why we launched the Wireless Connected DVD player," he says. The ADC-320 can transfer files five times faster than the ADC-220, which was launched last July and had integrated 802.11b Wi-Fi technology. The increase in speed allows the player to stream higher-bandwidth movies, he says. The DVD player can receive digital content from Windows and Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 PCs, the company says in a statement. It also allows content to be streamed to PCs, where it can be recorded via Media Center's Personal Video Recorder feature. The recorded content can subsequently be streamed to other ADC-320s on a home network, Schindler says.
One-Step Set Up The player allows streaming of MP3 and Windows Media Audio content, and MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4, Microsoft PVR, and AVI (Audio-Video Interleaved) video files. For secure transfer of multimedia content, the DVD player supports 64-bit and 128-bit WEP encryption and WPA encryption. |
The player sells for $ 199.99 and is available immediately from Gateway. Firmware upgrades for the DVD player will be available from Gateway's Web site. Owners of Gateway's ADC-220 can upgrade with an 802.11g DVD card that costs $ 50 and is installed on the back of the DVD player.
Source: PC World
