PowerDVD Mobile Streams Media to and From Android Tablets

The Honeycomb tablet app finds your video, music and photos served up by the company’s most expensive media playing PC software and at that time streams them over your home or office Wi-Fi network to your Android tablet running their app. The app does not stream remotely, so you’ll need to be on the same network.

The PowerDVD Ultra 11 software running on your PC

You will need the PowerDVD Ultra 11 software running on your PC and the PowerDVD Mobile app on your tablet. Unfortunately, the software doesn’t work on Android smartphones and the PC app doesn’t work on a Mac.

The app streams media from a PC. It as well streams between tablets, if both tablets have the app. If you have a DLNA TV you can stream to it as then. The camera on  your Android tablet can be used to take pictures or video from within the app and they will be sent to the media library of the tablet.

To make it all work, you need PowerDVD Ultra 11 installed on a PC. There are three versions depending on the capabilities you require, so make sure you get the most expensive Ultra pack which costs $99.95 normally, nevertheless is on sale for $77.95 and includes PowerDVD Mobile, a $19.99 app in the Android Market. The two cheaper options don’t include the app and won’t work with it.

You will as well have to have both the PC and the Tablet on the same Wi-Fi network. This doesn’t work through the Internet, which makes this option less desirable unless you already plan to get the PC software, which plays DVDs, most popular video files and plays Blu-ray movies. It does not work on a Mac.

Kevin writes for many publications including our sister site Notebooks.com as then as iPhone Life magazine, Christian Computing Magazine and a few others.