What is the point of "Play On My" option in windows xp?

I recently plugged in a new digital video recorder I bought and windows installed the DVC USB storage device driver, but I think it might have installed a crap one too, because whenever I right click on a video file on my desktop, this option called "Play On My" appears past properties, and if I put my mouse over it, the only option is the model number of my monitor. What is the point of this function??? Can I get rid of the new menu item without uninstalling the driver?