{"id":186,"date":"2009-05-14T10:33:36","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T17:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/14\/linksys-discontinuing-media-center-extender-dma-2100\/"},"modified":"2011-06-09T05:49:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T12:49:47","slug":"linksys-discontinuing-media-center-extender-dma-2100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/14\/linksys-discontinuing-media-center-extender-dma-2100\/","title":{"rendered":"Linksys Discontinuing Media Center Extender DMA-2100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linksys is having a fire sale on the Media Center Extender model DMA-2100 \u2013 50% off the original $300 unrealistic price.&#160; Don\u2019t get me wrong, for $150, if you have a Vista PC and need an extender that is significantly quieter than an Xbox 360, this is a good deal.&#160; It has dual band wireless but does not have a TOSLINK digital audio port, only the COAX digital audio is present on this device. <\/p>\n<p>Note that now that this is officially discontinued, there definitely won\u2019t be firmware updates to provide additional codec compatibility. This would seem to mean that the more expensive DMA-2200 (has an on board DVD player that isn\u2019t all that great but does have the Toslink port) probably won\u2019t see firmware updates either. <\/p>\n<p>This is a V2 extender that works with Vista and Windows 7.&#160; Note that Linksys (and everyone else) also killed of their V1 extenders, which worked only with Windows XP Media Center Edition. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shoplinksys.com\/Wireless-N-Media-Center-Extender-DMA2100-Wired-Products_stcVVproductId53779505VVcatId543870VVviewprod.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"dma-2100\" border=\"0\" alt=\"dma-2100\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/content\/binary\/LinksysDiscontinuingMediaCenterExtenderD_BEC3\/dma2100.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>All things considered, as long as you understand you are buying a discontinued product, this is a pretty good deal. I suspect that the price may drop even further as time goes on.<\/p>\n<p>Clubhouse Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/clubhouse.microsoft.com\/posts\/tag\/clubhouse\" rel=\"clubhouseTag\">clubhouse<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/clubhouse.microsoft.com\/posts\/tag\/media+center\" rel=\"clubhouseTag\">media center<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/clubhouse.microsoft.com\/posts\/tag\/Media Center-Windows 7\" rel=\"clubhouseTag\">Media Center Windows 7<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/clubhouse.microsoft.com\/posts\/tag\/windows+media+center\" rel=\"clubhouseTag\">windows media center<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/clubhouse.microsoft.com\/posts\/tag\/tip\" rel=\"\u201dclubhouseTag\u201d\">Tip<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linksys is having a fire sale on the Media Center Extender model DMA-2100 \u2013 50% off the original $300 unrealistic price.&#160; Don\u2019t get me wrong, for $150, if you have a Vista PC and need an extender that is significantly quieter than an Xbox 360, this is a good deal.&#160; It has dual band wireless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":""},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<p>Linksys is having a fire sale on the Media Center Extender model DMA-2100 \u2013 50% off the original $300 unrealistic price.&#160; Don\u2019t get me wrong, for $150, if you have a Vista PC and need an extender that is significantly quieter than an Xbox 360, this is a good deal.&#160; It has dual band wireless but does not have a TOSLINK digital audio port, only the COAX digital audio is present on this device. Note that now that this is officially discontinued, there definitely won\u2019t be firmware updates to provide additional codec compatibility. This would seem to mean that the&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/category\/media-center\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Media Center<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"Barb","url":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/author\/barb\/"},"comments_num":"1 comment","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pvFKI-30","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}