Tech Gear Review: Buffalo Wireless LinkTheater Media Player

Tom’s Hardware reviews the Buffalo LinkTheater Wireless Media Player. This is not a normal DVD player – it’s also a wireless media player and sells for about 300 big ones.

It looks like it has a typical ‘media center’ interface and you can browse your photos, music,and videos across the network. Here’s some of the downsides from the reviewer:

On the negative side, the lack of WPA support was disappointing and the few glitches I encountered were annoying. But the biggest flaw is the LinkTheater's inability to upscale retail DVD's to HD resolution due to its lack of a DVI-HDCP or HDMI connector. While you can get around this if you don't mind ripping, de-encrypting, re-encoding and burning your own DVDs, including a digital output connector would certainly enhance its use as a DVD player.