Amazon.com Product Review
Amazon.com Product Description The Iomega ScreenPlay TV Link is an ultra-compact multimedia player that lets you connect your USB hard drive, flash drive or Iomega REV Drive to your TV, so you can enjoy your digital collection of movies, music, and photos with big-screen quality. The ScreenPlay TV Link is small enough to fit in your pocket, and it comes with a full-function remote, making it a low-cost and convenient way to enjoy your digital media collection while you travel or from the comfort of your couch.
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The HDMI connection lets you connect to your HDTV. View larger. |
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Watch all your digital media wherever you go with the compact ScreenPlay. View larger. |
Easy to Set Up and Use The Iomega ScreenPlay TV Link takes the digital media files stored on your USB hard drive (NTFS or FAT32), flash drive, or Iomega REV Drive and lets you watch them on your home theater. Set up is as easy as plugging the TV Link in and connecting it to your television. It's an easy way to add functionality to the digital storage you already own.
The included full-function remote lets you control playback from wherever you are, whether you’re sitting in your favorite chair or you’re across the room in the kitchen.
Big-Screen, Home Theater Enjoyment There's no need to wait for your computer to boot up just so you can enjoy your digital media. And instead of watching your favorite TV episode on your laptop, use the ScreenPlay TV Link to watch it on your big-screen television. With support for HDMI, you'll have a crystal clear high-definition picture scalable to 1080i.
The TV Link also has support for great sound, including AC3 Dolby Digital encoding, so you can play all your music files over your home theater speakers. In addition to HDMI, the TV Link also has the following connections: composite video and audio R/L, component video Y, Pb, Pr; coaxial S/PDIF output, and SCART (RGB) (European users only).
The ScreenPlay TV Link supports the most popular media formats including MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (AVI/VOB), MPEG-4 (AVI/DiVX 3.11, 4.x, 5.x/XViD), MP3, AC3 (Dolby Digital Encoding), WAV, WMA, OGG, and JPEG.
Small, Portable Design Measuring just 3.25 x 3.07 x 0.78 inches (HxWxD) and weighing a mere 0.22 pounds, the ScreenPlay TV Link easily fits in your pocket, letting you take it with you on the road. Now you can truly watch what you want to watch no matter where you are.
The Iomega ScreenPlay TV Link is powered by an Energy Star-qualified adapter and is backed by a one-year warranty.
What's in the Box Iomega ScreenPlay TV Link, remote control, power supply, composite video cable, component video cable, SCART adapter (European users only), and quick-start guide.
Watch any of the files on your USB hard disk on your big screen TV. |
Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
(31 customer reviews) 19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Like many Iomega products -- good, but not perfect,
August 12, 2008 whitearrow (Irvine, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Iomega 34386 ScreenPlay TV Link (Personal Computers)
This gadget lets you connect, in theory, a portable hard drive or flash drive to a TV or projector. Unlike other similar devices, including those by Iomega, it does NOT come with any on-board storage -- you plug your own storage device into the USB drive.
On the plus side, it's tiny, lightweight, and only requires a lightweight power supply and the desired AV cable (component, composite or HDMI). It has a configurable menu that lets you choose PAL/NTSC; widescreen, 4:3 letterbox or 4:3, and a variety of audio options.
When you turn it on and plug in a compatible hard drive, it displays the content in the same folders that you have on the disc. You can also rip a DVD (I tried with a homemade disc), and when you click on that folder, it will read it just like a DVD and display the menus. I also successfully played xvid and mp3 files. For travel, it will be great to just bring this device and a tiny portable hard drive instead of a DVD player and a bunch of...Read more
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Sniff sniff,
December 20, 2008 Roger Berger - See all my reviews
This review is from: Iomega 34386 ScreenPlay TV Link (Personal Computers)
I heard about this from a WD media player review and bought this because it is cheaper. It played 1 out of 10 movies I tried (mp4 and avi). I was too busy to return, so I lost. The WD has played over 100 movies without one failure. So it would take at least 100 of these to equal one WD.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Simply the best gadged I've ever owned!,
January 20, 2009 Jovica Petrovski (Kumanovo, Macedonia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Iomega 34386 ScreenPlay TV Link (Personal Computers)
Tested with 160GB, 320GB and 500GB WD passport drives, and all of them worked perfectly. This is a great product overall.
