User Manual

2 Welcome to the Digital Entertainer Elite
• Category 5 (Cat 5) network cable
• Composite RCA-type A/V cable
• HDMI cable
• IEC power cable
• Two AA batteries
• NETGEAR Resource CD for use with Windows-based PCs and
Macintosh computers
• Installation Guide
Contact your dealer to get a replacement for any missing component.
Overview of the Digital Entertainer HD
You can play media on the Digital Entertainer Elite without running
media server software on your computer. The Digital Entertainer Elite
can work with Windows, Macintosh, and Linux operating systems and
various handheld computers. You can work with a wide variety of
digital storage formats and systems. The Digital Entertainer Elite
enables you to view them as a single media library that you can browse
through on your television screen.
• NETGEAR Digital Entertainer for Windows software
This software provides a variety of media management tools that
make it easy to access media files stored on a Windows PC. You
can perform many of the same tasks on non-Windows computers
using the native utilities of those systems. The NETGEAR Digital
Entertainer for Windows includes the following applications:
– Configuration Wizard. This application helps configure PCs
to share media, automatically set firewall settings, and verify
communications between PCs and the Digital Entertainer Elite.