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Old 10-15-2009, 06:43 PM
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OK, I'm still a learning about some of the technology available for enhanced home viewing.

I am trying to better understand about digital media players (DMP). I'm not sure what it is. From reading it appears to be a device that can accept ethernet or wireless data transfers. Or, it can accept data from a flash drive for the purpose of having media played back through the television. Some of the devices have internal hard drives while others do not.

Is a product like Apple TV a digital media player? Most of the information that I've found online assumes that one understands the basics about the DMP. Can anyone direct me to some information that will help me better understand this device?
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Old 10-15-2009, 10:45 PM
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DMP is a generic term that can mean different things, as you seem to have discovered. In the loosest sense all it means is a device that plays digital media. So in that sense AppleTv is indeed a DMP, so is an iPod, slingbox, roku...
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Old 10-16-2009, 09:45 AM
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Thanks.
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Old 10-19-2009, 02:05 AM
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OK, I'm still a learning about some of the technology available for enhanced home viewing.

I am trying to better understand about digital media players (DMP). I'm not sure what it is. From reading it appears to be a device that can accept ethernet or wireless data transfers. Or, it can accept data from a flash drive for the purpose of having media played back through the television. Some of the devices have internal hard drives while others do not.

Is a product like Apple TV a digital media player? Most of the information that I've found online assumes that one understands the basics about the DMP. Can anyone direct me to some information that will help me better understand this device?
i have one and it works great. its a western digital media player with 2 usbs on it hooked to my pan. plasma it looks great with all my stored movies.i read some reviews on them and this one rates very user friendly with no problems.
the picture quality really shocked me. farout
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Old 10-19-2009, 10:13 AM
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Do a forum search on streaming or PS3 and you'll find a lot of info on what's out there.
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Old 10-30-2009, 07:16 AM
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Thanks for the additional info. Will follow up.
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