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New DLNA Certified™ products are available in stores now, with more to follow. Look for DLNA Certified TVs, digital video recorders, PCs, game consoles, printers. A new generation of devices. With more powerful capabilities for a more powerful digital network.

How it works

If your devices can do more things, you can do more things. Check out how the expanded capabilities of DLNA Certified devices can revolutionize the way you find, send, store, get, play and print your digital content. All you need to get started is a network – wired or wireless. That's because DLNA Certified devices today connect, discover and communicate with each other over a home network – like the one you might already have for sharing your broadband Internet. (There might be other ways to connect in the future.).

How DLNA Certified devices …

  • Find and play movies

    Network attached storage to television

    Your movie collection is stored on your network attached storage (NAS), a certified digital media server (DMS). Instead of watching the movie on the little PC monitor in your office, you want to enjoy it on the large flat-panel TV in your living room. Because your DLNA Certified TV is certified as a digital media player (DMP), you can use the DMP capabilities of your TV to find the movies on your NAS, and then play them on the TV.

    Find and play movies

  • Send and display photos

    Camera to television

    You have photos stored on your digital camera, a certified digital media controller (DMC). You want to look at them on your TV. With a DLNA Certified camera, you can send the photos to your DLNA Certified TV, which, if certified as a digital media renderer (DMR), can use those capabilities to display the photos.

    Send and display photos

  • Find, send and play music

    PC to speaker

    You’ve loaded all your favorite music onto your PC, a certified digital media server (DMS). Using your DLNA Certified personal digital assistant (PDA), which may be certified as a mobile digital media controller (M-DMC), you can find songs you want on your PC and send them to play on your DLNA Certified wireless speakers. In this case, the speakers deliver the capabilities of a certified Digital Media Renderer (DMR).

    Find, send and play music

  • Upload photos

    PDA to network attached storage

    There are photos on your personal digital assistant (PDA), a certified mobile digital media uploader (M-DMU), you want to send and save to your newtork attached storage (NAS). Using a DLNA Certified PDA, you upload the photos to your DLNA Certified network attached storage (NAS), which operates as a certified Digital Media Server (DMS).

    Upload photos

  • Download music

    PC to MP3 Player

    You want to transfer music from your PC, a certified Digital Media Server (DMS) in this scenario, to your MP3 player, a certified mobile digital media downloader (M-DMD). With DLNA Certified devices, you download the music from your PC using the MP3 player.

    Download music

  • Send and print photos

    WiFi camera phone to printer

    You have a photo on your WiFi® enabled camera phone you want to print. Assuming the phone is a certified mobile digital media controller (M-DMC), you can send the photo to your DLNA Certified printer, a certified digital media printer (DMPr), to print.

    Send and print photos

To learn more about what the different types of DLNA Certified product categories can do, visit DLNA Certified Products, and to learn about the different DLNA Certified devices, visit DLNA Certified Device Classes.