The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) is a global collaboration of 245 of your most trusted brands, all working together to help you create the home entertainment environment you’ve always imagined. DLNA member companies are thriving to provide a Digital Living Environment in which you can access and share “user created content” such as personal movies, music, images from your Wireless Phone/Smartphone/PDA and more. DLNA provides mechanisms to protect DRM so users can also enjoy and share Premium content.
Currently the DLNA Landscape consists primarily of Digital Media Players/Renderers (DMP/DMR) and Digital Media Servers (DMS). The Promise SmartStor NS4300N and NS2300N are DLNA Digital Media Servers that comply with the 1.0 Specification.
Digital Media Players/Renderers such as the PS3 (PS3 is DMP only) Buffalo’s LinkTheater HD and Pioneer Elites Blu-Ray/Plasma (to name a few) are designed to be used in the living room, bedroom, den and other rooms in the digital home. Digital Media Players feature an Ethernet Network Connection (10/100 or 10/100/1000) and or a Wireless Network Connection (WiFi) along with HD Connections (HDMI and or Component), Analog Video Connections (S-Video and or Composite), Analog Audio Connections (left-right RCA) and Digital Audio Connections (Optical and or SPDIF/Coax). Digital Media Players/Renderers connect to the network and discover Digital Media Servers “automatically” allowing the user to browse and playback digital content such as Music, Pictures and Videos.
PS3 Media Server List
The difference between a Digital Media Player and Digital Media Renderer is a Digital Media Renderer can accept instructions from a Digital Media Controller. A Digital Media Controller such as the Nokia N95 Smartphone or Nokia N810 Internet Tablet can browse the network automatically discovering Digital Media Servers allowing the user to select content and then select a Digital Media Renderer from a list of available Renderers to playback the content (See Images below). These are just a few uses cases for DLNA. The aforementioned N95 Smartphone is also a Mobile Digital Media Server (M-DMS). You can share images on the N95 accessing them with a Digital Media Player and you can also print directly to DLNA Printers such as the HP 7280 or use the N95 to “push” a image to a Digital Media Renderer (image of choice is automatically displayed on TV). The possibilities are endless and the ecosystem is just starting to expand and grow.
List of available Media Servers Video Content and Renderer to playback is selected
Promise is very committed to DLNA and the future of the Digital Home. Promise is hard at work on some future digital media products as we continue to push ourselves as a leader in the digital living ecosystem. Stay Tuned!
