We wish there were dozens more pages of functionality to describe to you, but that’s really all there is. Media Manager is simply a dead-simple way to get PC photos and music to your TV. Simple is good for basic tasks like media playback, but it has some drawbacks, too. For example, there is no quick way to shortcut through hundreds of folders. You just have to scroll and scroll and scroll from the top, so playlists/slideshows become essential. We found instances when the displayed album art didn’t match the track being played. (You’ll note in the image that Aerosmith album art from the prior track is displaying on a Bon Jovi song.) Perhaps the biggest annoyance was that, when watching a slideshow, you’re forced to hear whatever channel is playing in the background. There’s no way (yet) to start a song or playlist in Music Manager, then keep it playing when you switch over to Photo Manager.

When we spoke with Verizon’s tech support, two techs seemed surprised that video playback had yet to be integrated into Media Manager and indicated that it “must not have made it into the last update.” So perhaps video playback will be added soon. That would certainly plug a feature hole addressed by practically every other PC-to-TV media product we’ve seen.