Gateway Wireless Connected DVD Player
June 28th, 2004 | by Jeff Fila
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Features and Design The Gateway Connected DVD Player is a home theater component-sized unit finished in the familiar Gateway tan and gray. If the ADC-320 looks familiar, that may be because it is the same product as the GoVideo Networked DVD player, but with a different finish. If you like your home theater components black or silver, the ADC-320 won't match — in fact there's not much it will match with besides Gateway's own home-theater receiver. Besides playing DVDs and CDs, the ADC-320 plays streaming digital movies, music and images from a PC on your network. Gateway's previous version of the Connected DVD player was well-received, but suffered from a lack of supported digital media formats. The ADC-320 addresses much of that by offering playback of many of today's most popular formats. Supported media types are as follows: Optical Media: Streaming Content: The front panel of the ADC-320 has all of the CD/DVD controls a regular optical disc player would have, and it has a few extra buttons to control the extra features. The ADC-320 comes with a 44-key infrared remote control, which most users will need since the front panel buttons are small and hard to read. Since the device has an on-screen display, the front panel has buttons to navigate through that display. One button not seen on other DVD players is the ‘Connect' button which allows you to connect or reconnect to your wired or wireless network. Also available on the front panel are two microphone inputs and a volume and echo control for those microphones. With support for Dolby Digital decoding and output, the ADC-320 features all of the analog and digital audio and video outputs you may want. The rear panel features the following:
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by Matt Coope on November 12, 2005:
“The DVD player is nice, but the whole point of it was to connect to my computer to play files. I have tried 3 PCMCIA Cards, 2 wireless and 1 wired, nothing works” More...