DIGITAL LIVING NETWORK ALLIANCE (DLNA)

Formed 2003 by Sony (name changed in 2004) Used existing standards; added compliance/test/certification First “Guidelines” for DLNA published in 2006 Presently: 250 members; 8000 products certified 200-300 million devices manufactured per year 1 billion DLNA-certified devices by 2012 (“ABI Research”) 2 billion DLNA-certified devices by 2014 (“Strategy Analytics”)

“Promoter Members” (26): Access, AT&T Labs, Awox, Broadcom, Cisco Systems, Comcast, DIRECTV, Dolby Laboratories, Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard, Huawei, Intel, LG Electronics, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Pioneer Corporation, Qualcomm, Rovi Corporation, Samsung Electronics,

Sharp Corporation, Sony Electronics, Technicolor, Toshiba, and Verizon.

1/2011: Apple is absent; Apple uses its Digital Audio Access Protocol instead of DLNA's UPnP protocols.

DIGITAL LIVING NETWORK ALLIANCE (DLNA)

Source: http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/technology/technology/theme/dlna_02.html

EXAMPLE DLNA DEVICESMobile handsets; Digital Media Players

Photo Frames

Cameras

Consumer Electronics (game consoles, …)

Set-top boxes;

Personal Computers

BluRay players (over 105 presently DLNA certified)

Source: http://www.hometheater.com/news/080210dnla/)

EXAMPLE DLNA USESSend: Transfer video or images captured on a digital camera or mobile phone to a PC

Push: Display video or images captured on a digital camera or mobile phone directly on a TV without having to go through a PC

Find and Play or “Play to…”: Use a mobile phone to locate a video or song stored on a PC, external disk drive or network-attached storage (NAS) device and stream or transfer it to a stereo or home theatre for playback

Pull and Print or “Print to…”: View a photo stored on a media server on a TV and print it using a networked printer

VERIFY DLNA COMPLIANCEBEFORE PURCHASE

Look for a DLNA logo on the device

or

verify certification through the DLNA Product Search: http://www.dlna.org/products/

SAMSUNG LN55C650“Allshare” (DLNA)

MOBILE PHONES: use TV to: view call arrivals; messages, schedules play videos, photos, music browse web pages in mobile phone

PCs OR OTHER DEVICES: use TV to: play videos, photos, music

SAMSUNG LN55C650“Sources” Menu

SAMSUNG LN55C650

SAMSUNG LN55C650INTERNET ACCESS (via “widgets”)

AVAILABLE “WIDGETS”SELECT “YUPP TV”

SELECT “Yahoo”

News, Stories, Business,…

“Top Stories”

“Weather”

WIDGET MEMORY USAGE

1.5Mbps is minimum

My Network Speed

Select “Hulu Plus”

“Hulu Plus” is $8 Per Month

Select “Vudu”

Vudu

Vudu Example

Vudu 99 cent special

Select YouTube

YouTube “Most Viewed”

YouTube Visited History

Search YouTube: Enter keyword

YouTube Key Pad Entry

Sample Samsung Widget 2/5

Sample Samsung Widget 2/5

Sample Samsung Widget 3/5

Sample Samsung Widget 4/5

sample Samsung Widget 5/5

Sample Samsung Widget 6/5

Select “Vimeo”

“Vimeo” screen

“HD Staff Picks”

“Vimeo” screen