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Introducing the DMA

This chapter introduces the main applications and features of the DMA. See the Quick Start Guide for instructions on connecting the DMA.

1.1 Overview

The DMA plays digital audio, video and photo files on your television (instead of your computer monitor). The DMA has an HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) for high quality digital video and audio output. The remote control lets you easily browse and play your digital content files and configure the DMA’s settings: all on your television screen.

1.1.1 Play Files on USB

The DMA plays media files stored on a USB device like a memory stick or hard drive.

Figure 1 DMA with USB

1.1.2 Play Files on Media Servers

The DMA plays media files stored on your media servers. See the Quick Start Guide to install the included media server software on your Windows XP computers to use them as media servers. The NSA-220 network storage appliance is also a media server.

The DMA connects to your media servers through an Ethernet connection. The DMA-1000W also allows you to connect to a IEEE 802.11b/g compliant wireless LAN network. It can connect to an Access Point (AP) or another IEEE 802.11b/g compliant wireless LAN client.

Here, the DMA lets the TV play files stored on computers A and B and an NSA-220.

 

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