Home > Consumer Reviews > D-Link DSM-750 Wireless HD Dualband Draft 802.11n Media Center Extender

I'm not sure why others are having issues but I did not. I admit I am a technical person, but I did not find this technically complex. I plugged in an HDMI cord and connected it to my AV receiver, powered it all up, went through the set up menu and had it working in 5 minutes.
Now that said, I did try and call their tech support about sound options and found it painful. First person I couldn't understand and ended up getting disconnected. Second try I got disconnected again. In total I was on the phone with them for 2 hours and they seemed to have no idea what I was talking about. But like I said. It works.

My media extender works great with Vista Ultimate Windows Center. When the DSM-750 was first released by D-Link it had some issues where people were not able to connect to their pcs. The problem had been fixed before I received mine in the mail. I have not had any issues and have been satisfied with the purchase.

It's 3/22/09 and I thought I'd take a chance as amazon was 30$ cheaper than ordering from Dlink directly, but I received one of the defective units. It will not connect to windows media center so I am going to have to ship it back to dlink for repair/replacement. I think that dlink ought to offer free shipment for this. I'm supprised that defective units are still being shipped.

My reveiw of other features like medialounge:
1.) will not seek, FF/RW or time seek for mkv files
2.) will not time seek for HD wmv files
3.) will not stream HD mkv files through the wireless n connection 5 feet away from a Linksys WRT610n dual band router.
4.) Does not calculate bitrate and file size for mkv files correctly resulting in premature ending of the video.
5.) GUI is decent
6.) remote is pretty good
7.) I would not recommend buying this unit from amazon unless they can assure you that the unit is known not defective. They should have gone through the process of contacting dlink and returning the units that needed replacement already, I am very disappointed.

I purchased to pair with the DIR-655 router and the DAP-1522 bridge (the bridge isn't really necessary unless you want your wireless network to include non-N band devices). Of the three, this is the only device that I set up that didn't lead to murderous rage. It works great in Medialounge mode (if you want to stream files from multiple computers, set up something like Tversity to act as a media server - this device will detect it) and with Vista Media Center. One caveat - in order to get live tv to record properly, I had to update drivers for my tv tuner. If you get a video error message, you probably have a codec conflict with MCE - uninstall codec packs and video-related software until the problem is fixed - may need to restart computer to notice a change).

In MCE mode, you can access Netflix watch now and download Netflix movies by using the VMC plug-in. Works great.

In medialounge mode, I was able to get the device to play .vob files by using DVDshrink to copy a dvd. I wanted to stream directly from an optical drive, but it's not quite able to do it. It will detect the files and try to play them, but I've only been able to get a couple video frames and a little audio.

The only problem is that I needed to update the firmware. At the time I was using a wireless connection (not sure if the same problem would have occurred if connected via Ethernet), and it wouldn't connect to the internet and check for firmware. I had to download the firmware on my PC, transfer it to a usb device, and connect the usb device to the DSM-750. Note - you will need to unpack the downloaded file, and all files need to be included on the usb, not just the firmware file. After plugging in the usb device, I went to medialounge mode. Don't go to the usb selection. Go to settings, and the device will automatically detect the new firmware and prompt you to install. I believe the folder with the firmware files may need to be on the root of the usb. After updating the firmware, the connection problem was resolved.

I backup my DVDs to a D-Link DNS321 2-Bay network attached storage (NAS) where I have two 1TB drives. This device (DSM-750) streams the media clearly off the NAS as if I was watching the original DVDs. This is the best device by far for playback after recording and then streaming DVD backup files from a shared NAS device.

I use DVDFAB 6 to backup my DVDs to my laptop and then wirelessly transfer them to the NAS. This software allows users to create 3-4 GB no loss VOB files. Why compress when multi TB drives are available. This simple software also allows users to select only the movie portion of the DVD and the language needed for playback. Because I select only the movie, the DSM-750 randomlly selects a default language. Because I only select one language for backup, I don't need to use the DSM-750's remote control to change the language after the movie starts.

I read the original reviews and waited to see what else came out. I only found devices that would stream from dedicated non sharable USB ports. I checked out many products over the last serveral months but I could not find one with better specs. This thing works as advertised. As far as I'm concerned, I waited too long because there are no bugs.

My daughter was working on the family laptop and this device was streaming her school video project to the televison. "Where did you get that" she asked. I was using this device via our router to wirelessly stream the video off her laptop without her knowing.