D-Link ’s Media Lounge Wireless Media Player with DVD takes Wi-Fi into long overdue territory. Unlike most wireless media players, the new MediaLounge is as much consumer electronics device as networking peripheral.

In fact, the DSM-320RD, a 802.11g device, can function quite nicely without a network. Its disc player lets you play DVD, SVCD, CD-RW, MP3, VCD, CD-R, audio CD and DVD±RW discs, and the two memory card slots let you show digital photos stored on SD (Secure Digital), MMC (MultiMedia Card), Compact Flash (Type I and II) and Memory Stick cards.

Also unlike some other products in this category – including the new Squeeze Box from Slim Devices and D-Link’s own MediaLounge Wireless Music Player DSM-120 - this MediaLounge can send any kind of digital media over a Wi-Fi network: music, video and images stored on network-connected PCs, plus Internet radio.

At $285 and much less in some places , the price seems about right. There is much to like about the product, including generally great performance. But there is also much that is annoying.