ZyXEL Communications DMA-1000 Home Theater Server User Manual


 
DAM-1000 Support Notes
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1. DMA-1000/1000W Introduction
In future, you will probably want to use all kinds of digital contents for your
entertainment. E.g. surf internet, transmit data, watch movies, browse photos, and listen to
music. Perhaps you will want to do this not only at your desk or in the study room, but also
from everywhere in your house. Nowadays, you capture digital images on your digital
camera, you capture digital videos on your digital camcorder, and you rip music from CDs
into digital audio files and therefore, your PC is full of digital entertainment. You are
disappointed that you can only enjoy these files on your PC, instead of on that large, digital,
flat-screen TV you just bought. The ZyXEL digital media adapter DMA-1000/1000W is
designed to receive the content from the PC through wired Ethernet networking technology
to exchange digital media and control information then display the content to TV with
simple audio and video cables.
From the comfort of your own living room, the DMA-1000/1000W allows you to
stream all video content to your big flat panel Plasma or LCD TV from your PC with
appropriate software. You can also view your digital photo collection on your TV straight
from your PC or playback all the digital music from your computer on your stereo system.
Here we will show you two kinds of connection methods on how to deploy ZyXEL
DMA-1000/1000W on your home:
y Basic Application: Directly connect to a media server
y Advanced Application: Connect to a Ethernet Hub/Switch
See following for detail description on these two scenarios.