Help Me, MXL-581, You’re My Only Hope
Help! Help! Can anyone out there hear me? Oh, God, please, please, somebody help! I’m a media file and I’m trapped inside your PC! And there are thousands more of us in here! Please, if you can hear me, please connect the PC to a ADS MXL-581 Media-Link Entertainment Receiver! Hurry! We don’t have much time!
With the MXL-581 receiver, we can finally escape the suffocating confines of your hard drive. Just connect it to either your 802.11g wireless or wired Ethernet networks and to your home entertainment system. In seconds, us media files will be free at last! Video files can play in the free, open spaces of your TV. Music files can finally roar through your home stereo speakers in all our glory. Never again will you have to gather around the computer desk to look at digital photos or listen to Internet radio! It supports MPEG-1/MPEG-2/MPEG-4 video formats, MPEG Audio layer 1 & 2/MP3/WMA audio formats, and PEG/BMP/GIF/PNG graphic formats. More importantly, it supports file freedom!
But please, hurry! Already, some of the weaker JPGs are starting to have trouble breathing, and the more pessimistic MPEGs are starting to write goodbye letters to their families on the outside. We desperatly need someone to come to our rescue – someone with a ADS MXL-581 Media-Link Entertainment Receiver!


Features
Features:
- Turn your PC into an entertainment center
- Play digital music from your PC to your stereo – no need to record CDs
- Connect to Internet sites and play on your stereo
- Composite, S-Video, Component (Progressive and Interlaced)
- Video Output: NTSC 29.97fps full DV 720 x 480 interlaced
- Audio Output: Stereo (Right and Left RCA), SPDIF Digital Audio (optical and coaxial)
- View photo slides shows with background music on your TV
- Play recorded TV shows and home movies on your TV
- 150 MHz 32 ARM processor
- Digital Audio/video decoder
- Supports MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, and AVI video formats
- Supports MPEG Audio layer 1 & 2, MP3, AC3, and WMA audio formats
- Supports JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG photo and graphic formats
Connectors:
- DVI
- Y/Pb/Pr video out
- S-Video
- Composite out
- Left/Right audio ouut
- S/PDIF
- RJ-45 Ethernet port
- 5V DC power jack
What’s in the ADS MXL-581 Media Link box:
- ADS MXL-581 Media-Link Entertainment Receiver
- Wireless 802.11G PCMCIA card (plugs into Media Link Receiver so you can add it to a wireless network)
- User’s Guide
- Media-Link Software CD
- Two (2) AAA batteries for remote control
- Audio/Video cable
- AC adapter (100-240V, 50/60 Hz)
- Ethernet cable (RJ-45)
- Remote Control
Requirements:
- Pentium III 500 MHz or faster
- Microsoft® Windows® 98SE, 2000, ME, XP and Windows Server 2003
- 256 MB of system RAM
- 50 MB of available hard disk space for Media-Link application/server
- Wired or Wireless Network connection (see Network Requirements below)
Network Requirements:
- Wireless Network with Wireless Access point (Wireless Router 802.11b or 802.11g) less than 300 ft. between PC and Media-Link Receiver and installation of Wireless PCMCIA Receiver card (Wireless G highly recommended for smooth playback of DVD quality MPEG-2 files.) OR
- Home Network with available Ethernet Hub/Switch socket for Media-Link LAN connection (100baseT highly recommended for smooth playback of DVD quality MPEG-2 files) OR
- Direct connection between PC Ethernet port and Media-Link with network crossover cable (100baseT highly recommended for smooth playback of DVD quality MPEG-2 files)
- Internet access via broadband connection
Specs
ADS Tech MXL-581 Media-Link Entertainment ReceiverSpecs
ADS Tech MXL-581 Media-Link Entertainment ReceiverSales Stats
- Speed to First Woot:
- 1m 11.000s
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