Sharing Media Content With Other Devices - Topfield SRP-2401CIplus User Manual

8.5 Sharing media content with other devices

You can share media content with other devices by virtue of
Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) technology, which is
a standard to allow entertainment devices within the home to
share their content with each other across a home network. If
you have, for example, a DivX player that is compliant with
DLNA, then you can play back on the digital receiver the media
content out of the DivX player, or vice versa.
If the DLNA devices you have are all fully compliant with the
DLNA standard, there would be in general four methods you
can implement by means of DLNA as follows:
Before going further, you had better set some of the folders in
the digital reciever's hard drive to be shared so that they can
be accessed and played by other DLNA devices. Select the File
Manager menu and go through the submenus until the folder
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• Device A accesses and plays the media content out of de-
vice B.
• Device A commands device B to play its own media con-
tent.
• Device A commands device B to access and play the me-
dia content out of device A itself.
• Device A commands device B to access and play the me-
dia content out of device C.
Entertainment >
Select the
Home Media menu, then you
should see a screen like the left
figure. The name, [HomeMedia]
Topfield PVR, specified at the
DMS Name option is used as an
identifier for other DLNA de-
vices. Of course you can change
that name as you pleased.
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