Pinnacle ShowCenter 250HD

Advantages: Linking computer to tv and all in 1 music and video
Disadvantages: Setup

...Start over again, hopefully this review will be better for you and more information. I have the pinnacle showcenter 200 which cost £175, and for what it can do is worth it. There are two parts to the showcenter, you have the silver box and remote. There are no buttons on the silver box which will connect to you tv or hifi simply connect using a scart lead or Composite and Y/C (S-Video) outputs. There are optical or phono connections for audio if you wanted to connet to your hifi. The other part of the package is the software which will be loaded on your pc, This will search for all compatiable media types and tag them so you can select to play them on your tv usng the showcenter box. Supported media Types The software that comes with this automatcally seaches your hard drive for all compatiable media types. It then tags them... Read review

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Advantages: stream your computers media to your tv
Disadvantages: quality of wi-fi, setup can be tricky

...So like the title says, you can stream your audio, video and pictures from your computers hard drive to your tv via the showcenter 200 So maybe we should start with some specifications, features, opinions etc. For a start lets begin with supported file types and so on, first off we have audio... the file types that are supported for audio are all the major formats like MP3, MPEG-1 layer 2 (MPA), PCM WAV and WMA. You can also stream video which also supports the majority of video formats such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-2 VOB, MPEG-4 AVI, Xvid and WMV9, and HD video is also supported which is a nice bonus. Of course you can also stream and view your pictures (including support for HD imagery from high mega-pixel cameras etc) On the showcenter 200 and again most the image formats are supported such as JPEG, BMP, PNG and GIF. Then we have... Read review

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Advantages: easy set up, a quick solution to music streaming
Disadvantages: sound quality does not match original source.

...The Pinnacle SoundBridge media hub is a smashing device considering the price of around £50.00 Its versatile and is fairly easy to set up and seamlessly connects to your wireless router in order to give you easy access to Internet radio. There are loads preset and you have the option of browsing 'regions' to identify your favourite local stations available on the web. I did find that my local station wasn't listed and although it comes with radio snooper software I've failed to get this to work properly. The device happily finds both my windows media files and itunes folder and allows you to browse and play these tunes through speakers or your hi-fi if you connect this using a spare phono socket. The sound quality is a little dissapointing as it lacks the natural volume and depth of the original source. The other problem... Read review

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