Hi,

Can anyone help me.

I have a wifi network set up at home. I wish to send the video and sound
output of my wireless laptop to my TV. My TV has inputs for a direct
connection of a PC.

Thanks,

Carl Read.

$8300d***@news.demon.co.uk:

Show quoteHide quotenot a bad idea...

i'm thinking you'll need some pricey (sorta) hardware though

Show quote Hide quote Interesting problem.  If you want to do it with easily found stuff (as
opposed to expensive purpose-built stuff), here is how I would do it:

1. hook up a computer to your TV such that the computer output is displayed
on your TV.  Put this computer on your WiFi network.  Call this computer the
TVC (TV Computer).
2. run UltraVNC viewer software on the TVC.
3. run UltraVNC server software on your laptop.
4. (Briefly) use the TVC to establish a VNC connection to the laptop, in
shared mode (so both the TVC and the the laptop simultaneously control the
laptop).
5. Put the UltraVNC viewer on the TVC into "full screen" mode.
6. Now as you use the laptop, the TVC will show you what is happening on the
laptop.

You can even modify step 4 so that you don't have to briefly use the TVC
(assuming you have XP on both the TVC and laptop) at all.  Instead, run
Remote Desktop on the TVC and then establish a Remote Desktop connection
using the laptop to remote desktop to the TVC.  Use the remote desktop to
establish the VNC connection to the laptop, then drop the Remote Desktop
connection.

Hope you have a good laptop and a decent TVC, because although this will
work, fast processors with lots of RAM and 802.11g will make it less painful
than it probably will be otherwise.

Tim

Carl Read wrote:
Been there, done that, it is both easy and cheap. B will do still video, and
g will do live video. Biggest hassle is more than one device, each has to
have a "codec" for decompressing the image.

for the TV end, check out the MediaMVP
http://www.hauppage.com/pages/products/data_mediamvp.html - MediaMVP: the
coolest video product on the Planet! Listen to and watch digital music,
pictures and videos on your TV set, from your PC over your home Ethernet
LAN!
Now available for just $99.99!

For the "get stuff on the network in the first place" they have a variety of
products that do video/dvd's/sat/screen/tv tuners/HDTV stuff etc (find one
of the suitable devices at http://www.hauppage.com/ (various devices,
anywhere from $100 to $400, depending on the options selected)

Just an aside, I use laptops for presentations, and the MediaMVP connects my
projection TV to the network, and displays the image on a 88" picture. The
whole idea of networks is to let other people at the presentation also see
it on their laptops (and also optionally record the video for later playback
after I leave).
The fun part about this setup, is that I get to use it at home between
presentations... (ie big screen surround sound in the living room, and then
on the small screen when I get tired and go to bed).

It's not cheap but you might consider this:

"The Avocent LongView® Wireless extender is the world's first wireless
keyboard, video and mouse (KVM) extender."

http://www.avocent.com/web/en.nsf/Content/LongView+Wireless

-- Paul



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$8300d***@news.demon.co.uk:

Sony has such a device... but it's only for a small 12" LCD screen... and
it costs ~1000.00+!

http://news.sel.sony.com/digitalimages/photo?photo_id=168672

Lucas Tam <REMOVEn***@rogers.com> wrote in
Oops, this goes the other way, from a TV to a laptop/wireless device :)

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