“Play To” App brings capability of
— sharing media over DLNA
—— to Nokia Lumia Smartphones

Nokia’s “Play To” application deals with DLNA capable devices such as TV Sets, Blu-ray players or in fact computers running Windows 7 OS, to  wirelessly broadcast media content from your smartphone. Finnish company has released various revisions of “Play To” app for Symbian devices. While new line-up of Windows Phones were lacking to have such a sharing app. Nokia Beta Labs has now released “Play To” app for their Lumia smartphones.

Stated that Media server feature, which is currently not present, will be added in future. — see limitations after the break —

With Play To you can share your photos and videos from your Nokia Lumia phone to your DLNA-capable devices over your WLAN network.  This could be that new big screen TV you have or maybe just your Windows7 laptop and/or desktop.  Play To makes sharing easy.

A few known limitations currently the “Play To” app is facing as follows.

• There are known interoperability issues with Sony Bravia TV that prevent Video being shared correctly.
• High Resolution video may not share correctly.
• The application does not support Media Server functionality and cannot be detected by devices such as Microsoft Xbox360 and/or Sony Playstation3.
  This functionality is being planned for a future release..

Download

To download Play To on your Nokia Lumia smartphone, you must follow the instructions as given by Nokia Beta Labs or go as follows.

If you’re on your desktop browser, please transfer the link to your phoneto install the app.

But if you’re browsing this page on your Nokia Lumia phone, you can install Nokia Transport Beta from the Windows Phone Marketplace.  (Note: opening the Marketplace link on a desktop browser will give the error “App not found”.)

[source Betalabs] [via Nokia Conversations]