Iomega ScreenPlay TV Link Review

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RRP $149.95

Review Date

Wednesday, 7th of January, 2009

The Final Word

If you do not know how to hook up a PC to your television, the ScreenPlay TV Link offers a convenient way to play multimedia content.

Review

If you want more content than is available on Blu-ray and DVDs and from over-the-air broadcasts, you will need to find some way to let your TV access some other form of storage, either locally or over a network. The ScreenPlay TV Link does away with any complicated networking and focuses upon simple USB playback. It works well and is simple to use, but we would have liked more versatility.

The ScreenPlay TV Link's main focus is on flash drives and USB external hard drives. From these mass storage devices the ScreenPlay TV Link can access a variety of file types. Video support is acceptable: it offers MPEG 1, 2 and 4 decoding, including DivX and XviD. There is no support for more advanced codecs, though, with our test device unable to play H.264 video successfully. In addition the ScreenPlay TV Link can view JPEG picture files and decode MP3, OGG, WMA, WAV and AC3 audio.