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Wireless PC on TV...

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sanjay369

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This issue is so simple that it is complicated. What are the options for sending wireless PC content to a remote home theater or big-screen set up in real time.

The solution must generate crisp looking pages that are readable. It must also play every major form of video or audio that a PC can.

I want to use standard wi-fi or something easy.
I don't mind using some form of adapter at the receive end, but not a dedicated PC.
I need to use the PC as well as media so Apple TV is not my option
I am not worried about HD content for this use...my set up covers that aspect.
I would like to spend $400 or less.

For example if I want to browse the internet (untethered) and watch a youtube on my TV...what can enable me to do that right now?

A friend told me about a product at a company he consults with that will be released by www.quartics.com this summer that seems like it can do the trick, but I have no idea if there is something as good (or better) I could get now. I had made a similar thread on this exact topic in 2002 :) I am hoping to have more luck now.

anything?
 
Ok I just want to make things clear:
1) You want to be use your TV as PC monitor to do stuff like watch youtube videos but wirelessly?
2) You also want to be able to stream media from your PC to your TV with some sort of set top box?

Oh here's a link to products that may fit your needs:
http://www.engadget.com/tag/mediastreamer
 
Why are you against using a cheap dedicated home theater PC? Since you don't need high def content to be played back on it, that means you just need something really cheap, and it would fall in the $400 range. A Pentium 4 shuttle pc with the microsoft wireless media keyboard would be perfect. I'd go to the for sale section if I was in your shoes. :cool: Also, if you went this route, it would not hamper any efforts to do what you want. Most of the media center extenders and television media solutions only do half of what you want.
 
A modded xbox with MCE can do most of that stuff except for the 'i want to use it as a PC but I don't want a PC' part.

I second w1retap's suggestion. A dedicated PC is the way to go for your needs.
 
w1retap said:
Why are you against using a cheap dedicated home theater PC? Since you don't need high def content to be played back on it, that means you just need something really cheap, and it would fall in the $400 range. A Pentium 4 shuttle pc with the microsoft wireless media keyboard would be perfect. I'd go to the for sale section if I was in your shoes. :cool: Also, if you went this route, it would not hamper any efforts to do what you want. Most of the media center extenders and television media solutions only do half of what you want.
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I am more interested in using my central PC with internet access on the several plasmas in my home... I was hoping for an easy solution without buying dedicated PC's

Danny Bui said:
Ok I just want to make things clear:
1) You want to be use your TV as PC monitor to do stuff like watch youtube videos but wirelessly?
2) You also want to be able to stream media from your PC to your TV with some sort of set top box?

Oh here's a link to products that may fit your needs:
http://www.engadget.com/tag/mediastreamer
Click to expand...

The media streamers have limited capabilities on different codecs that content is encoded in. Also, none of them let me use my pc on the TV. I want to have a WYSIWYG experience in real time....if it shows up on my pc screen, I want to see it over wi-fi on my TV screen...
 
Xbox + linux + vnc = win

It's cheap (very, very cheap), you can get a usb adapter to use a real keyboard and mouse on it, you can convince it to play every media file out there in standard def, it's extensible, and did I mention that it's cheap?

-q
 
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