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I got this question from a friend the other day:
do you know if you can transmit the internet signal in a wireless network to your tv? now we attach our laptop directly to the tv with a VGA adapter. I want to avoid doing this and maybe buy and attach some type of transciever to the television to access the internet while sitting on the couch in our living room.
I am looking for a good answer to this also I used to use my Xbox to stream recorded TV from a PC upstairs, but the video was always choppy over the wireless connection, and now it just plain doesn’t work because of some setup issue.
I found a few questionable products. I really doubt the video quality – in home wifi doesn’t have enough bandwidth to transmit HD video in realtime, it has to be cached on the set top box.
The only established products that I know of are AppleTV and Roku Netflix. But both of those lock you in to either Netflix or iTunes. ZeeVee looks promising (but wired and expensive).
Anyone out there know of other alternatives?
MediaMall is launching a product called PlayOn which allows you to watch Hulu, YouTube, CBS.com, ESPN.com, and CNN.com on your TV if you have a networked PS3 or XBOX360. It is really slick – and setup is relatively easy. It will be available in Beta form on Monday 8/18. If you want to be a Beta tester, go to http://www.themediamall.com/signupforplayonbeta. To learn more, check out http://www.themediamall.com/playon.
A media PC is going to be your best bet. Or if you you computer is close enough to your tv buy an DVI to HDMI cable and hook it up as described here: http://www.outragedpotato.com/2008/09/streaming-netflix-and-hulu-straight-to.html
This gives you more than just hulu, it also gives you streaming from everyone other streaming site on the internet!
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