Pinnacle Show Center 200

Pinnacle ShowCenter lets you easily stream your favorite digital movies, music and photos from your PC to your television and home audio system. It combines top-quality audio and video, including HD photo and video support, with an intuitive user interface. Equipped with a USB port on the front panel for enjoying digital media from a camera or other storage media device.

Feel Right At Home With Top Quality Digital Music, Videos and Photos

Now you don`t need to sit in front of your PC to enjoy your digital media. ShowCenter 200 lets you experience the very best of everything — music, movies, and photos — on your home TV and audio system.

High Definition Photos and Video
The ultimate in crystal-clear pictures and CD quality sound! Enjoy High Definition output of your photo slide shows, videos, HD camcorder movies, and HD videos captured from TV broadcasts. Your high-megapixel digital camera photos will look sharper than ever on the big screen. Turn them into slide shows, complete with subtitles and background music.

Access to Premium Content
No more reloading your CD player. Pinnacle ShowCenter 200 gives you access to digital rights-protected (DRM) music that you`ve purchased online so you can watch or listen to them on your home theatre system, TV or stereo.

Handy USB Placement
A USB port on the front panel of the ShowCenter player makes it simple to watch or listen to your digital entertainment or connect your digital camera, external drive, or USB drive.

Easy Setup and Usability
Connect to your PC or home network with a wired or a wireless connection — integrated 802.11g wireless support gives you a choice. The Quickstart wizard leads you step-by-step through setup.

PVR Functionality
Control the Personal Video Recorder (PVR) features on your Pinnacle PCTV tuner card (purchased separately) from the ShowCenter unit in your living room without any subscription fees. Use the remote control to record your favourite shows directly from ShowCenter. Timeshifting lets you fast forward past commercials, rewind and replay your program. Includes support for analogue, satellite, and DVB-T digital video broadcasting standards.

Powerful, Flexible Media Management
Pinnacle`s MediaManager software lets you organise your media files in several categories, or find them in predefined genre lists. It supports a huge range of popular media formats. Burn your music collections and films to CD or DVD for archiving or sharing with friends. Import your entire CD music collection with integrated ripping.


Support for online premium content:
- NEW! Support for Windows Media 9 DRM protected content purchased on the Internet.
- RealRhapsody® subscribers can automatically import Real Network`s Rhapsody content - more than 770,000 songs available.
- Enjoy Internet SHOUTcast™ radio on your home audio system.
(Online content requires a broadband Internet connection.)


NEW! HD Video Support: Enjoy PC-based HD video content on your HD flat screen or TV.


NEW! HD Photo support: Share and watch digital photos with family and friends, including HD quality from large mega-pixel cameras,.


NEW! - USB port on front panel for viewing photos, music or movies stored on external devices such as digital cameras or hard drives.


Integrated 802.11g wireless or Ethernet connectivity. New Wi-Fi® installation wizard.


UNIQUE! Remote PVR functionality using the PC`s PCTV tuner product (PCTV product not included)


UNIQUE! Comprehensive media management on the PC automatically catalogs your media by category, allows for custom playlists. It also lets you directly burn playlists and slideshows to CD or DVD.


Listen to music without turning on the television. Assign radio stations or playlists to individual buttons on the ShowCenter remote.

Supported File Formats

Music: MP3, MPEG-1 layer 2 (MPA), PCM WAV, WMA.
Incompatible audio files (such as WMA lossless, WMA Pro) will be converted to MP3 at 192 kbit⁄s
Video: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-2 VOB, MPEG-4 AVI, Xvid, WMV9

HD Video; WM9 HD up to 1080i, WM9 HD up to 1080i with DRM, MPEG-2 HD up to 720p, MPEG-4 HD AVI up to 720p
Incompatible video files (such as DV) will be converted to a ShowCenter compatible format as set by the user.

Images: JPEG, BMP, PNG and GIF
All "portrait"-oriented image files are rotated by 90° as defined in the ShowCenter 200 database. The pictures are optimized on the fly for TV screen display and stored as a copy in JPEG format, preserving the original image file. A software color correction and flicker filter is selectable from the ShowCenter 200 player.