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Title: What to connect TV and Stereo to Network?
Post by: netdog on September 20, 2004, 03:14:28 pm

Here is the layout...

The server is in the office, the adsl modem/router in the living room with the tv/stereo and laptop, which I want to use to select what is shown on the TV and played through the hifi.

The ADSL is obviously jacked into the wall.  The server and laptop speak wirelessly through the modem/router.

What sort of wireless device do I need for my TV and HiFi in the UK?  Obviously, I also want to connect these through the G-Router/Modem as I want to control things from the laptop, but do not want the system to depend on the presence of the laptop.

So exciting to be almost there.

Title: Re:What to connect TV and Stereo to Network?
Post by: Michel Lefebvre on September 20, 2004, 04:43:06 pm

Does your laptop have a video out jack? If so, just connect the video out (Yellow RCA connector to the video in jack on your TV, or better yet if your Hi-fii has it, the video in jack on your receiver.

Then connect the audio out of your laptop to your aux input on your receiver.

That's what I used to do when I had a laptop and it worked very well.

Michel.

Title: Re:What to connect TV and Stereo to Network?
Post by: netdog on September 20, 2004, 05:06:20 pm

I want to avoid using wires.

The files are on the server in the 2nd BR, connected to the router/modem via wireless G.  The TV and Stereo are in the LR and need to be connected.  The ADSL Modem/Router with Wireless G, which is, in a sense, the hub, is in the LR, as is the lattop, which is also connected via Wireless G to the hub.

Is there a wireless device that will connect the TV (Sky + connected to a Sony 30") and a HiFi with the standard connections?

Title: Re:What to connect TV and Stereo to Network?
Post by: IlPadrino on September 20, 2004, 09:41:23 pm

Quote from: netdog on September 20, 2004, 05:06:20 pm

Is there a wireless device that will connect the TV (Sky + connected to a Sony 30") and a HiFi with the standard connections?

Why not just put a small-form-factor (SFF) computer next to your TV/HiFi?  You could get one with an 802.11g NIC, S-video Out, and 5.1 surround sound.

But be warned:  doing video via WiFi can be problematic because there is no QOS (quality of service) which prioritizes the various demands on bandwidth.  But it should work fairly well for you if you don't have too much else going on at the time.