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Comment from: serversupport [Visitor]
Home networking group, Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) has approved the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) technology standard for incorporation into the next version of its Networked Device Interoperability Guidelines, scheduled for release in early 2009.

MoCA joins Wi-Fi and Ethernet as the only LAN technology standards approved for inclusion in the DLNA Interoperability Guidelines. MoCA is a widely used scheme for supporting home networking over existing coaxial cable.

Wireless comes into play to connect mobile devices to DLNA-defined premises networks.

DLNA and the organization's Interoperability Guidelines are designed to bring together consumer electronics, PCs and mobile device technologies and standards into a home networking scheme that portends to delivery a higher quality entertainment experience.

``At the end of the day, home entertainment networking is all about sharing and distributing content simply and easily,'' said Charles Cerino, MoCA president, in prepared comments.
03/07/09 @ 20:51
Comment from: Daphna Friedlander [Visitor]
Adam,
While DLNA may indeed be the secret sauce of the digital home, it can also compound some of the challenges consumers have with managing multiple media libraries across multiple devices with different and disparate interfaces. What's needed is an independent media control point that indexes all of a users media regardless of where it resides, on a home PC, a NAS device, an iPOD, or even in the cloud from sources like YouTube, Hulu, Flickr or Picassa. If the user then had an ultra-portable device like an iPhone or netbook with a common user interface to maximize discovery, accessability and play-out control to any DLNA device, then that would eliminate some of the hoops you've described having to jump through. This is especially important for the less savvy digital home owner who just want their content to play in the right room on the right device. You may want to check out our restricted beta at www.eyecontechnologies.com to maximize the capabilities of your DLNA enabled devices.
05/07/09 @ 04:00
Comment from: Dennis Volodomanov [Visitor] Email
Hello,

The company I work for is making a DLNA server (which is part of a bigger package that includes a media organizer and a DLNA client that runs on your PC). The product is called Mezzmo (please don't consider this advertising, but rather a mention of something different to those stated in your article). The company is Conceiva Pty. Ltd. (we're in Melbourne). At the moment, we're just in the final stages of releasing a major update, that includes transcoding among other features. We do have a Release Candidate available for preview. If you are interested, please send me an e-mail.
09/07/09 @ 09:59
Comment from: Cletus [Visitor]
Adam Turner: DLNA is a protocol! It's not that there are "none" for the playstation 2. The reason ps2 doesn't work with DLNA is because they never added support for it...
10/07/09 @ 06:43
Comment from: WPG_Linux_guy [Visitor]
Strange. I have one of the newer PS2's that were released after the PS3. Its a slim design one. The firmware is newer. When I run the configuration CD, I believe it says its empowered with DLNA. I'll have to re-run the setup disk to verify if thats indeed what it says. I'm a bit curious now. I'll check this weekend :)
12/08/10 @ 13:48
Comment from: Khepfere [Visitor] Email
Hello-
I have a very simple question that is related to this post. I am new to all of this and as Daphna remarked I want a simple solution. In my case I simply want to be able to view movies that I've purchased and rented on iTunes that reside in my main computer on TV's throughout the house. What is the simplest way to do that?
Thx
10/10/10 @ 18:31
Comment from: Adam TURNER [Member] Email
Khepfere, an Apple TV will let you watch movies you've bought on your computer using iTunes. I'm not sure about movies you've rented.
11/10/10 @ 09:18
Comment from: Sebas [Visitor] Email
Hi Adam.
Great post. I was trying/playing around with DLNA this weekend, but I couldn't find a decent player for iPad or iPhone, what do you use/recommend?
Anyone's recommendations are also welcome, of course.
Thanks,
Sebas.
22/06/11 @ 02:27
Comment from: Adam TURNER [Member] Email
Hi Sebas,
Sorry but I don't have any recommendations because I use the Orb and Air Video apps to stream content onto the iPad.
22/06/11 @ 22:04
Comment from: Alex KIDMAN [Member]
Theoretically, you could leave a PC running the Air Video app and connected to a DLNA server running, and access video that way.
23/06/11 @ 12:30