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D-Link MediaLounge Wireless Media Player Earns CES 2005 Innovations Honoree Award (23/11/2004)

D-Link, the global leader in consumer network connectivity, today announced that its best-selling MediaLounge Wireless Media Player (DSM-320) has captured the coveted "Innovations 2005 Honoree" award from the International CES Innovations 2005 Design and Engineering Showcase, in the Integrated Home Systems category.

"We are pleased to once again be honored by the CES Innovations 2005 panel of judges for excellence in design and engineering of the MediaLounge Wireless Media Player," said Steven Joe, president and CEO of D-Link. "As a pioneering technology company in the digital home market space, receiving this CES award underscores the acceptance of the cutting-edge D-Link engineering excellence, and reinforces the industry recognition of our superior media products."

"The wireless media player streams high quality audio, video and online content to the living room and is just one of many state-of-the-art digital home devices that will be featured in the D-Link booth at the upcoming CES show," added Joe.

The CES Innovations Design and Engineering Awards Showcase has been a premier venue for consumer technology manufacturers and developers to have their latest products judged by a panel of judges, consisting of independent industry designers, engineers and journalists, since it's inception in 1989. Many on the panel of judges are members of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), a body of over 3,000 members in 27 chapters dedicated to the industrial design profession, advancing the quality and positive impact of design in the technology industry.

CES Innovations 2005 Honoree - D-Link MediaLounge Wireless Media Player (DSM-320)

The D-Link MediaLounge Wireless Media Player (DSM-320) resides within a home entertainment center and connects to the television and/or stereo using standard A/V or S-video cables. For users with high-end entertainment systems, the D-Link DSM-320 supports component video, optical digital audio and coaxial digital audio connections. Using the included remote control and step-by-step TV interface, it is then easily connected to a home network via 802.11g wireless, or if preferred, through standard Ethernet cabling. The best-selling wireless media player includes the D-Link MediaLounge Media Server Software for Windows 98 SE, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP and the new Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. The MediaLounge software intuitively compiles digital content from network PCs and devices and organizes it by file type (audio/video/photo), cataloguing the individual audio files by categories such as genre, artist and title for immediate access through the Media Player.

Users can wirelessly locate and stream multiple types of digital content from the Internet or hard drive using the included remote control and intuitive interface. The D-Link Player supports virtually all digital content standards, including the popular WMA, MP3, WAV, and AIF audio formats, the JPG, BMP, PNG, TIFF, JPG2000 and GIF Image formats, the MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Quicktime, AVI and XviD Video formats and the M3U and PLS Audio Playlist formats.

The D-Link MediaLounge Wireless Media Player supports the streaming of multiple audio and video Internet services. Customers of the D-Link DSM-320 can view, play and listen to premium content directly on their television after the content is wirelessly streamed from their broadband Internet connection. The D-Link MediaLounge Player includes an exclusive offer with the Radio@AOL for Broadband service featuring Best of Breed radio programming. D-Link DSM-320 customers receive a limited time free trial of over 175 CD-quality Radio@AOL stations. Additionally, D-Link customers can also stream live Internet radio stations in a 30-day limited trial from Napster, the world's most recognized brand in online music. For fans of the RealNetworks' Rhapsody Internet jukebox service, D-Link MediaLounge owners will receive a limited trial of streaming music service from the leading creator of digital media services and software.

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