At the Consumer Electronics Show in Jan. 2009, Samsung announced a number of DLNA enabled devices. While these products will be recognizable by the Digital Living Network Alliance certification stamp (pictured), it's likely that many consumers have not yet encountered DLNA technology.
With that in mind, Samsung Newsroom is producing a series of articles set to help everyone understand the technology. This series will seek to explain its capabilities, its uses and why you're going to want products with the DLNA seal of approval, but first up is a little history lesson.
The Digital Living Network Alliance is a cross-industry collaboration of electronics providers. In 2004, the alliance published its first set of Interoperability Guidelines laying out a stringent set of requirements that must be met for a product to be certified. Fundamentally, DLNA-compliant devices allow for a vast range of interoperability between devices of over 200 manufacturers.
To the benefit of consumers, this interoperability can take on a variety of characteristics, with devices communicating amongst each other either via USB or WiFi (or both). If you've ever worried that a new component might not be compatible to existing devices, DLNA-compliance will ensure that you'll never arrive home with a shiny new product, only to discover that it doesn't work with your existing setup.
And now, with more than 3,000 DLNA certified devices available, there is an immense and ever-growing pool of options to choose from.
