On Friday, Samsung announced a new Wi-Fi-equipped wireless optical disk drive that allows users to stream multimedia and files from CDs and DVDs to mobile devices and computers.
Dubbed as Smart Media Hub, the SE-208BW also has a dedicated app for Apple’s iPad and iPhone devices, and supports Mac desktop computers as external storage.
The SE-208BW wireless optical disk drive supports several reading and writing capabilities for burning discs directly from an iPad, iPhone or Mac, including 24X CD-ROM, 24X CD-RW, 8X DVD reading and 8X DVD±R, 5X DVD-RAM, 6X DVD+R Dual Layer, 6X DVD-R Dual Layer, 8X DVD+RW, and 6X DVD-RW.
The external device can also help connect to a broadband modem via Ethernet and use it as wireless access point; Samsung even claims that it is capable of being a Wi-Fi repeater.
With a USB port, the SE-208BW is DLNA-compatible and can connect to an external hard drive with Dynamic DNS support to use the attached drive as file server.
In addition to being an external disk reader/writer, the SE-208BW has wireless access point and repeater functionality to connect the drive to an Ethernet LAN cable. Doing so will turn the disk drive into a wireless media hub, which you can use to share content on the discs wirelessly. It can also act as a signal booster to amplify WiFi signals and widen connectivity range in homes.
Samsung has yet to announce the pricing details but the SE-208BW wireless optical disk drive will expectedly be available early 2012.
Dubbed as Smart Media Hub, the SE-208BW also has a dedicated app for Apple’s iPad and iPhone devices, and supports Mac desktop computers as external storage.
The SE-208BW wireless optical disk drive supports several reading and writing capabilities for burning discs directly from an iPad, iPhone or Mac, including 24X CD-ROM, 24X CD-RW, 8X DVD reading and 8X DVD±R, 5X DVD-RAM, 6X DVD+R Dual Layer, 6X DVD-R Dual Layer, 8X DVD+RW, and 6X DVD-RW.
The external device can also help connect to a broadband modem via Ethernet and use it as wireless access point; Samsung even claims that it is capable of being a Wi-Fi repeater.
With a USB port, the SE-208BW is DLNA-compatible and can connect to an external hard drive with Dynamic DNS support to use the attached drive as file server.
In addition to being an external disk reader/writer, the SE-208BW has wireless access point and repeater functionality to connect the drive to an Ethernet LAN cable. Doing so will turn the disk drive into a wireless media hub, which you can use to share content on the discs wirelessly. It can also act as a signal booster to amplify WiFi signals and widen connectivity range in homes.
Samsung has yet to announce the pricing details but the SE-208BW wireless optical disk drive will expectedly be available early 2012.
