While it’s one of the first wireless media players to come with 802.11g WiFi stock standard, a few usability hang-ups prevent PC Magazine’s review team from giving the D-Link DSM-320 a better than average score. It’s got all the media playback mojo you’d expect from these modern day VCRs (which are really just hardware front-ends to your computer’s media collection), yet the file browsing has some serious limitations (like no ‘play album’ selections and a broken search algorithm), there is a single, obnoxious screen saver, and the streaming internet radio is limited to only AOL Radio, leaving behind the thousands of free stations of the web. Up the upside, the hardware is solid, with lots of I/O ports and a decent remote, and most of the issues software based, meaning there’s no reason that D-Link couldn’t fix them in the future. For $170, you could almost risk buying it now and trusting D-Link to patch the firmware later.
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