DLNA : what is ,and how it works

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
  • Find, send and play music
  • Upload photos
  • Download music
  • Send and print photos

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