Anyone got a DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance ) enabled amp or other device?

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With the HTC Desire HD coming up (which supports DLNA), I'm starting to look at the best way to stream media from the phone to my TV.

Does anyone here has experience of DLNA devices? Do they work reliably and are they easy to set up? Are there many amps for <£500 that support it these days?

In the near future I'm going to be buying an Acer Revo for streaming as well as an AV amp for surround in the living room, so I'm trying to decide whether my best course of action is to find an AV amp with DLNA functionality and stream media from my phone that way, or to just set the Desire up as a media server and have the Revo stream from the phone via WiFi (is this possible?).

Thanks for any thoughts.
 
My experience with DNLA has been pretty poor, though I'm sure it's just because my NAS isn't the best beyond just storing things. I've found it never 'delivers' the full list of albums I have, to a PS3 or phone. For example, it would give up on the 300th album (out of around 1100 I have) and would often ignore the newest albums resulting me constantly having to rebuild the NAS db.

When it worked, I could use my phone to browse the albums and connect to my HT via BT. It was lovely, but incredibly unreliable.
 
easiest way would be an apple TV and an iphone and stream using airtunes.

Apple TV is £100, just connect the optical audio output to your existing amp.

Job done.
 
Syph said:
My experience with DNLA has been pretty poor, though I'm sure it's just because my NAS isn't the best beyond just storing things. I've found it never 'delivers' the full list of albums I have, to a PS3 or phone. For example, it would give up on the 300th album (out of around 1100 I have) and would often ignore the newest albums resulting me constantly having to rebuild the NAS db.

When it worked, I could use my phone to browse the albums and connect to my HT via BT. It was lovely, but incredibly unreliable.
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Ok, thanks for that. So, some questions for you (some silly):

- HT = home theatre?
- BT = bluetooth?
- So the PS3 - does it operate as a DLNA streamer, server, or both?
- What is your DLNA-enabled NAS device?
- So your setup was NAS --> PS3 --> TV?
- What phone did you have? Could the unreliability have been due to your phone not being 'DLNA certified'?
- Could you stream from your phone to your TV via the PS3, or only take stuff from the NAS to your phone via the PS3?

Many thanks.

MrLOL said:
easiest way would be an apple TV and an iphone and stream using airtunes.

Apple TV is £100, just connect the optical audio output to your existing amp.

Job done.
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As above, problem being I'm getting the Desire as my next phone. Thanks anyway :p.
 
if you dont want to go down the Apple route there are other options.

One of the most common ones is to use a DLNA streaming player, such as the PS3 on the Playon thing that easyrider has

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18182112&highlight=streaming

Sony do have a 2011 Range of Home Cinema receivers which promise some great features such as being controlled from your Android phone

http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/06/sonys-2010-es-line-includes-3d-and-excludes-a-lot-of-retailers/

That looks particularly awesome, sony receivers with the on screen XMB interface are always good anyway. I've currently get a denon, which despite the hifhi experts claim is amazing, i absolutely HATE because the on screen interface looks like something from an amstrad.

Google TV looks promising too

http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/04/sony-shows-off-google-tv-a-video-of-it-anyway-at-ifa/

Theres so much new stuff comming up its unreal.

Currently my existing setup is DLNA streaming client on my mac (or any DLNA NAS would suffice) with a PS3 connected to the denon receiver by optical audio output. PS3 streams direct from the DLNA client and can pull down all my songs / movies.

DLNA streaming phones are a bit new, i wasnt even aware there was one on the market yet, so if it doesnt work currently, the tech is in its infancy so it will improve. However i think the poster above is referring to his experience streaming from his Nas to the PS3.

I stream to my PS3 using PS3media server application on the mac, and have no such issues so its definately something with his NAS.
 
I have an Apple G4 running as a media server running Twonky Media. My Onkyo TX-NR807 is DLNA and I can stream music to it fine and my Sony BDP-S370 is DLNA compliant and I can stream audio and video media to it no problem. If you add new media to the server you have to allow Twonky to catalogue it before it is available (normally an hour or so).
 
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