Wireless PC to hook to our 1080P HDTV?

In article ,
Howard Brazee wrote:

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:11:04 -0500, Lloyd Parsons
wrote:

If you think of an AppleTV as an iPod for your television, you'd be more
right than wrong. It hooks to iTunes superbly and does YouTube OK, you
can also use Handbrake to put movies on your network and play them via
the AppleTV and you can put photos there too.

But if you want to do some internet surfing for video, the hacks that
allow it pretty much suck. The ATV just doesn't have enough oomph for
that.

But if you use iTunes like I do, then it is a worthwhile addition if you
are not going the full HTPC route.

I watch rented movies on it, buy some TV stuff that isn't available free
somewhere else and am in the process of moving my SD movies on DVD over
to my networked iTunes library so I can watch them from there.

It mates to the TV via HDMI and the UI is FrontRow, a markedly simple
and elegant front end to operation.

I like it, and the base model is all you need.

I have wondered what it does, and it sounds it does nothing that
interests me.

I can understand that. For me, if it would allow effective surfing to
video sites and supported the various formats (like flash), it would be
the ideal box.

The mini could do all that with just the simple addition of an HDMI port.

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:46:53 -0500, Lloyd Parsons
wrote:

I can understand that. For me, if it would allow effective surfing to
video sites and supported the various formats (like flash), it would be
the ideal box.

The mini could do all that with just the simple addition of an HDMI port.

I'd rather have a computer with its own monitor - but some kind of
interface to run the TV system.

--
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than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison

In article ,
Howard Brazee wrote:

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:46:53 -0500, Lloyd Parsons
wrote:

I can understand that. For me, if it would allow effective surfing to
video sites and supported the various formats (like flash), it would be
the ideal box.

The mini could do all that with just the simple addition of an HDMI port.

I'd rather have a computer with its own monitor - but some kind of
interface to run the TV system.

You could do that with an iMac. Dell also has a box that could have
been that way, but chose not to support an external monitor.

Lloyd Parsons wrote:

One of the problems that sticks its head up now and then is that even
with HDMI on the PC, sometimes they just don't do as well as you expect
on a TV screen. It is the difference in how the geometry of the
resolutions are set up on PCs vs how they do it for TV.

Minor irritant, but still there.

then maybe it is best to turn a computer into a TV
instead of vice versa? yes?

in other words, install a TV tuner in computer with
computer display?

In article ,
wrote:

Lloyd Parsons wrote:

One of the problems that sticks its head up now and then is that even
with HDMI on the PC, sometimes they just don't do as well as you expect
on a TV screen. It is the difference in how the geometry of the
resolutions are set up on PCs vs how they do it for TV.

Minor irritant, but still there.

then maybe it is best to turn a computer into a TV
instead of vice versa? yes?

in other words, install a TV tuner in computer with
computer display?

Do you know where I can find a 61" HD computer monitor??

gismos like this

http://tinyurl.com/yzkoc3a


will wirelessly connect any PC with VGA output to an HDTV.

I would try a 15' wire first, then transition to this type of device.

Heck, I'd bet they have this at radioshack!

Lloyd Parsons wrote:

in other words, install a TV tuner in computer with
computer display?

Do you know where I can find a 61" HD computer monitor??

Ha! Nope!

Not that we can afford anyway!

Lloyd Parsons wrote:
In article ,
wrote:

Lloyd Parsons wrote:

One of the problems that sticks its head up now and then is that even
with HDMI on the PC, sometimes they just don't do as well as you expect
on a TV screen. It is the difference in how the geometry of the
resolutions are set up on PCs vs how they do it for TV.

Minor irritant, but still there.
then maybe it is best to turn a computer into a TV
instead of vice versa? yes?

in other words, install a TV tuner in computer with
computer display?

Do you know where I can find a 61" HD computer monitor??

Best Buy? Although it's disguised as a TV.

--
john mcwilliams

Howard Brazee wrote:
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:46:53 -0500, Lloyd Parsons
wrote:

I can understand that. For me, if it would allow effective surfing to
video sites and supported the various formats (like flash), it would be
the ideal box.

The mini could do all that with just the simple addition of an HDMI port.

I'd rather have a computer with its own monitor - but some kind of
interface to run the TV system.


Howard, what about a wireless USB VGA adapter? At least my old
Zenith 36" glass HDTV has a VGA port on it - would that do?

http://www.amazon.com/IOGear-Wireles.../dp/B001FSMB0S

It behaves as a second monitor would.

I bet the answer is "no", and I hope to learn something
from the explanation

Also also, there is a class of Mini-ITX motherboard featuring
Atom processors which I bet can be employed for this sort of thing.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813121359
and
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboD...t=Combo.274367

Dimensions 8.74" x 6.93" x 10.87"
Weight 7.76 lbs.

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Les Cargill

Lloyd Parsons wrote:
In article ,
wrote:

Lloyd Parsons wrote:

One of the problems that sticks its head up now and then is that even
with HDMI on the PC, sometimes they just don't do as well as you expect
on a TV screen. It is the difference in how the geometry of the
resolutions are set up on PCs vs how they do it for TV.

Minor irritant, but still there.
then maybe it is best to turn a computer into a TV
instead of vice versa? yes?

in other words, install a TV tuner in computer with
computer display?

Do you know where I can find a 61" HD computer monitor??

What's wrong with a 61" HDTV being used as one?

--
Les Cargill