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GoVideo D 2730 Networked Progressive-Scan DVD Player
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GoVideo D 2730 Networked Progressive-Scan DVD Player List Price: $249.99


Features
 Upgradeable onscreen "skins" and internal firmware; dedicated headphone jack fosters private listening
 Full-featured DVD player with built-in PCMCIA network slot for instant access to streaming media from your PC or home network
 Compatible with DVD-Video, DVD-R, DVD-RW, and MP3/WMA music CDs
 Dolby Digital and DTS digital outputs; Dolby Digital 5.1-channel decoding for wider compatibility
 Progressive-scan component-video outputs for seamless, flicker-free images on high-definition and HD-ready TVs
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GoVideo D 2730 Networked Progressive-Scan DVD Player description
Early Adopters Pick: July 2003. This is the world's first consumer electronics component featuring advanced DVD functionality that enables users to stream audio, images, and video from the PC to the TV at the touch of a button on the remote control.

Finally, there's a home-entertainment device that integrates PC entertainment with traditional audio/video sources. GoVideo's slim and stylish D2730 is not only compatible with a wide range of physical media, but it comes with a rear-panel PCMCIA slot for either wired or wireless networking with a desktop or laptop PC--it even comes with wired networking card. Now you can easily stream audio, images, and video files from the PC through to the TV at the touch of a button. The unit streams JPEG images, MP3 and WMA audio formats, and MPEG1 and MPEG2 video formats. Compatible physical media includes DVD-R/DVD-RW, video CD, Kodak Picture CD, and MP3 and WMA CDs.

The D2730 comes equipped with a network card for wired home networks, allowing instant out-of-the-box set-up and use. Just open the box, install the D2730's server software, hook it up to the TV and an Ethernet-capable PC or networked PCs, and start enjoying its innovative capabilities. If your home isn't networked yet, the unit still operates as a full-function DVD player. And the player operates wirelessly, too, using an optional wireless 802.11b (16-bit) network card.

An intuitive graphical user interface simplifies operation, ideal for novice and technically proficient users of both DVD players and computers. User-upgradeable onscreen "skins" give operation a personalized look and feel, and the unit's upgradeable firmware ensures that you'll be ready for future DVD formats, too. A headphone output with a dedicated volume control facilitates private listening--perfect for tuning into Internet radio in the living room while the rest of the family reads or sleeps.

Top-of-the-line component-video outputs (switchable between progressive-scan and interlaced) help minimize digital and line-scan artifacts on compatible advanced televisions, while composite- and S-video outputs bring compatibility with nearly any television. Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you're merely thinking of "someday," the D2730 stands ready to deliver the full potential of DVDs. Progressive scanning, referred to as 480p for the number of horizontal lines that compose the video image, creates a picture using twice the scan lines of a conventional DVD picture, giving you higher resolution and sharper images while eliminating nearly all motion artifacts.

A set of left/right analog-audio outputs channel audio to Dolby Pro Logic receivers and stereo televisions. Both Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel surround-sound signals can be routed through the player's digital-audio outputs (one each of RCA coaxial and Toslink optical) for direct connection to a full-featured audio/video receiver, and--in case your existing receiver is merely "Dolby Digital ready" (with multichannel RCA analog inputs), the D2730 decodes Dolby Digital 5.1 to six discrete analog signals (left, center, right, left/right surround, and subwoofer).

What's in the Box
DVD player, full-function remote control, 2 AAA batteries, wired Ethernet adapter (PCMCIA), installation CD-ROM (PC system software), onscreen user interface skin, stereo analog/composite-video interconnect (3 feet), user's manual, warranty information.

GoVideo D 2730 Networked Progressive-Scan DVD Player Customer Reviews
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♥♥♥♥ I've given up..don't buy this unit! 3 out of 3 were bad
First of all, I'm a computer/media geek, so I'm not new to making things work. Frankly, the Go Video D2730 is of extremely poor quality. Of the three (new) units I received from Go Video (based on my returns), none of them could successfully play a DVD. They all experienced various issues from the DVD "locking up" while playing, to not even recognizing the DVD, to constant spinning of the DVD drive. My last unit came the closest to working..it actually worked up until I flashed it w/the v3.0 client software (yes, it did successfully flash..check sum was verified). After that, every DVD played would eventually lock up. The entire player would freeze, forcing me to power off the unit.

So besides not being able to play DVDs, the actual networking features did work, albeit the interface is clunky. Having well over 7 thousand photos and 10 thousands sounds, finding a song via the UI was painful w/o having to go hog wild and create mutliple playlists (there is no searching via title).

So if you're thinking about buying this unit..don't. I'm into it 3 new units, ~10hrs of configuring/setup and I've given up. I'm going to build out an XP Media Center PC and be done with it.
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