Pinnacle ShowCenterâ„¢ 200

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

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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...

HD resolution LCD televisions are arriving in their droves, and with Showcenter 200, you can not only send HD videos from you PC but you can also display your photos in HD. And that's the big difference

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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...

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...

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...

The ShowCenter was a bit tricky to set-up at first -- more an issue with my ReadyNas X6 in the end. The ShowCenter can comfortably stream 1.5Mbps XVid MP4's over a wireless G, and except for some very close inspection, it is very hard to discern the...