Pinnacle ShowCenterâ„¢ 200

Handy as a go-between

No hard drive

The Pinnacle ShowCenter 200 serves as a useful conduit to stream content you've downloaded onto your PC into the comfort of your lounge room.

Flexibility ; HD support

Some HD jitter ; No DVI/HDMI output

Difficulty of use and bugs let down network functionality and good playback-format support

Many outputs connectors, including component video and both 720p and 1080i. Support for HD TVs and video formats. Great image quality.

Balky SQL server-based database, which proved difficult to work with. Persistent Wi-Fi troubles remained unsolvable.

In the end, however, the Pinnacle ShowCenter 200 proved too frustrating and limiting to use. The software glitches, poor remote control, and lackluster Wi-Fi implementation marred what would otherwise have been a spot-on feature set.

The ShowCenter has no hard disk and doesn't store any content; it's merely a central connection point. Depending on the physical layout of your home it could prove a useful go-between for the music, photos and video stored on your PC that you'd rather...

HD resolution LCD televisions are arriving in their droves, and with Showcenter 200, you can not only send HD videos from you PC but you can also display your photos in HD. And that's the big difference

Pinnacle has tried to make a flexible and all-embracing Digital Media Player. The only obvious missing link is streamed TV, but even this is possible if you fit Pinnacle's TV tuner card in the serving PC. It's a workable solution if you want to play...

LCD-Fernseher mit HD-Auflösung tauchen in Scharen auf, und mit dem Showcenter 200 können Sie nicht nur HD-Videos vom PC senden, sondern auch Fotos in HD-Qualität darstellen. Das ist der große Unterschied.