Pinnacle ShowCenterâ„¢ 200 Reviews

Pinnacle's ShowCenter 200 bridges the audio-visual gap between PCs and TVs.It plugs into your home network (or directly to a PC using the supplied 'crossover cable').

Flexibility; HD support

Some HD jitter; No DVI/HDMI output

To enjoy the 200's pi¨ce de résistance - high-definition video streaming - wired Ethernet is a must.Formats supported by the 200 are 720p/1080i WMV,720p MPEG4 (eg DiVX/XViD) and 720p/1080i MPEG2.HDTV playback is restricted to the component outp

Many outputs connectors, including component video and both 720p and 1080i. Support for HD TVs and video formats. Great image quality.

Balky SQL server-based database, which proved difficult to work with. Persistent Wi-Fi troubles remained unsolvable.

Pinnacle Systems ShowCenter 200 seems to offer all the right ingredients for getting content from your PC to your HDTV. With both wired and wireless connectivity, support for Windows Media Video (including the HD version), several digital audio formats an...

Handy as a go-between

No hard drive

The Pinnacle ShowCenter 200 serves as a useful conduit to stream content you've downloaded onto your PC into the comfort of your lounge room.

Streaming Video Nicely! Install Easily Too!

Wireless video streaming works nicely, with amazing performance. As a test, I played a 700MB AVI-format movie. The install took me 10-15 minutes. BTW, I have a 11g wireless network running in the house, and I use a Compaq NC6000 laptop to run the media...

Pretty cool, but...

After having read some customer reviews about this product, I figured I'd be in for a bit of a battle with the setup. And indeed, it was a bit painful. Entering a 128 bit WEP key on a phone keyboard is not fun at all, and I had to do it several times befo...