<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by jvs</i>
<br />As I understand they use the special cable for dvd to receiver.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Denon-link seems to be a proprietary (closed standard) protocol to transport digital signals from a Denon DVD player to a Denon AV receiver. It is highly unlikely you can use this port for anything else.<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">I want to use the link for a flac stream for instance received from a nas (I know that is possible)
http://www.synology.com/support/faq_sho ... d&q_id=298
see also this posting
http://www.domoticaforum.eu/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1090<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">That is possible. Some Denon AV receivers contain a media player, but those connect to your network using their built-in Ethernet port, not Denon-link.<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">I am not sure if there are possibilities to transport a movie stream.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Depending on the media server in your NAS, you can play video content too. But I am not sure if the media player in the Denon AV receiver can play video too.<br />
I have a Thecus N5200BR-Pro NAS and I have accidentally discovered that it has a media server on board. My Philips TV has an Ethernet port and it came with a lame PC application to enable it to play content from a PC. I connected it to the network, tried it once and forgot about it because it's of not much use if I have to leave my PC on to use it. But when I was playing with the TV a couple of weeks ago, it displayed my NAS in the server browser. So I tried to play a couple of 'difficult' movies (MKV, DiVX, ...) and it worked! Both NAS and TV turned out to be DLNA compatible. So that's the protocol to look for if you want to play everything.<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">(I agree there are optical out's on some of the other Atom's but I can't find the same optical out, Toslink, as on the Asrock, if there are I'd like to know)<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">I have seen more of them, but unfortunately I cannot recall brands right now. All were more expensive though. Look for nettops based on the ION chipset. They are supposed to play 1080p fluently.