computer to TV

patty65

I keep seeing that annoying PC World advert about streaming movies wirelessly from your computer to your TV.

As I refuse to enter that store, long story, too painful to recount, what is connected to the TV to convert the WiFi signal to a TV signal?

I have all the WiFi equipment to network computers.

Patrick

custardy

what connections does your TV have?
what equipment do you have now? eg PS3,360?
what are you wanting to stream over?

hartcjhart

If I can add a further question as it is also relevant,when you connect the laptop to the tele can you put the ebay screen onto it

patty65

what connections does your TV have?

normal TV with sky box

what equipment do you have now? eg PS3,360?

a computer

what are you wanting to stream over?

don't know until I find out what I can do.

If I can add a further question as it is also relevant,when you connect the laptop to the tele can you put the ebay screen onto it

what relevance does ebay have? Also why are you assuming I have a laptop?

Patrick

custardy

whats a normal TV? HD flat panel,CRT?
what connections does it have s video,scart,hdmi?
you need to give us info to help you

you will need to buy a media streaming unit of some description
so it depends what you want as to how you go
do you want to output the pc screen on it,do you want to stream films over,music or ??

hartcjhart

patty65 wrote: »

normal TV with sky box



a computer



don't know until I find out what I can do.


what relevance does ebay have? Also why are you assuming I have a laptop?

Patrick

if you read my post I tacked another question on to your post as there is a connection,so the relevance is I want to put ebay on the tele from MY laptop

dont worry I will post my own thing

custardy

hartcjhart wrote: »

if you read my post I tacked another question on to your post as there is a connection,so the relevance is I want to put ebay on the tele from MY laptop

dont worry I will post my own thing

again the question is what connections does you TV have and what connections does your laptop have?
does it have VGA?

patty65

My TV is a 28 inch widescreen Toshiba TV with a CATHODE RAY TUBE which to me is a normal TV. I apologise if I did not get what you all meant by what type of TV. It has 2 scart sockets and an aerial socket and has an analogue tuner.

My DESKTOP COMPUTER which to me is a computer, NOT a laptop, has a built in network card connected to a Netgear wireless router by WIRE which is then connected to my Virginmedia modem.

The wireless part of the Netgear router is used to connect my wife's computer, not laptop, wirelessly to the internet.

So going by some of the replies I am getting, I haven't a clue what I am on about, therefore my question, what do I connect to the back of my TV to stream STUFF to my TV. And can it be done if the TV only has scart sockets?

Probably not, but as I refuse to enter PC World I shall never find out.

And the next time I see that PC World advert on the TV I shall bury my head in the sand.

Patrick

patty65

as an aside to the way I think, if I asked

what do I need to connect to my TV to watch freeview TV on my TV?

I would expect a freeview box as the answer not what type of TV do you have.

Sorry but that is the way I think.

custardy

patty65 wrote: »

My TV is a 28 inch widescreen Toshiba TV with a CATHODE RAY TUBE which to me is a normal TV. I apologise if I did not get what you all meant by what type of TV. It has 2 scart sockets and an aerial socket and has an analogue tuner.

My DESKTOP COMPUTER which to me is a computer, NOT a laptop, has a built in network card connected to a Netgear wireless router by WIRE which is then connected to my Virginmedia modem.

The wireless part of the Netgear router is used to connect my wife's computer, not laptop, wirelessly to the internet.

So going by some of the replies I am getting, I haven't a clue what I am on about, therefore my question, what do I connect to the back of my TV to stream STUFF to my TV. And can it be done if the TV only has scart sockets?

Probably not, but as I refuse to enter PC World I shall never find out.

And the next time I see that PC World advert on the TV I shall bury my head in the sand.

Patrick

you have many options and methods
so its often down to preference/costs

i run a ps3(and 360) which can connect to the router via wifi and as such the PC
this streams all my movies and music etc over to the TV via software on the PC http://ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com/

very simple however you would be shelling out for a PS3 which is not cheap!! however the PS3 has the benifit of being pretty much ready to go out of the box for you specific needs plus you get a bluray player for when you get that big fancy telly.
360 can do it but you would need to pay extra for wifi(i run mine via cat5e cables)
you can buy things like a popcorn hour which is a media streamer

there are other variants like this

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/HDX-1000-Popcorn-Hour-Syabas-Full-HD-Network-Player_W0QQitemZ300374376397QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_AudioTVElectronics_Video_HomeCinemaSystems?hash=item45efb53fcd

(wifi is at added cost)

or you could go for something like a modified xbox(the original one) running xbox media centre
this would play all your movies and is what i used before i went all hidef
you would need to add a gaming bridge to add wifi


before that i had my tv hard wired via S video to thre TV but its not perfect
as i said it depends on your choices/budget plus others will have combinations to suggest

ckerrd

If your PC has a video out capability you could connect that to a video sender.
Connect the receiver part to one of the scarts on your tv and that chap Robert will be married to your mothers sister in no time