Comments on: Stream Movies From Your PC to Your TV

By: Bruce55

Bruce55 — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:16:31 +0000

I know this is an old post but I found a cool gadget called Wireless Media Stick. Check them out www.hsti.com/stick/

By: Peter Frambois

Peter Frambois — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 06:33:09 +0000

Very helpful commentary, although with a lot of redundancy at the beginning which made me think when will this self-loving guy finally start reviewing the gadgets?

By: Msmith31

Msmith31 — Mon, 30 May 2011 14:03:22 +0000

How and why were you kicked out?

By: Sven Kremer

Sven Kremer — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:52:39 +0000

Thanks for posting this, this is working great! Thanks!

By: Um ok

Um ok — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 06:11:07 +0000

Xbox 360 arcades are probably one of the cheapest options out there. You can pick up an Arcade now for around $100-$150 for the older units, hook up an external hard drive or stream from your PC (various networking options vary in price from next to $0 if your router is close to your Xbox to $30-$75 in setting up a Wireless N bridge using DD-WRT) through TVersity, and stream Netflix through Xbox Live. If you want Blu Ray, you can pick up a PS3 for around $300 that can do everything the Xbox can do plus no Live subscription charges ($40 a year if you buy a 12 month card on sale) and it has Wifi built in.

The WD Live and other media player boxes are pretty cheap and easy too, but if you have any interest at all in playing games Xbox/PS3 are definitely the way to go.

All of these are about as good or even better options than the ones presented in this post.

By: TV Guy

TV Guy — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:51:49 +0000

The WII has finally caught up to the XBOX and PS3 and can stream Netflix.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:09:35 +0000

I really enjoy the MG-800HD also. I'm using an S-Video cable and the images and videos are coming out great. I haven't used the SlingCatcher at all so I have no personal experience with it, but I've heard some negative feedback about it elsewhere so I had went with the MG-800HD also.

By: Ben L.

Ben L. — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 05:35:16 +0000

My solution cost me $0. I just plug in my PC to my big screen via RGB and leave VLC running full screen. I use avc streamer (www.avcstreamer.com) to manage and stream all my videos. I remotely control all my media from a laptop or my iphone. The best part is that I can watch and stream live tv using avcstreamer connected via firewire to my set top box. avcstreamer streams my current channel to anywhere I am through the internet - even at 720p - its very good quality at about 2 Megabits per sec. I can stream any channel I'm watching to my iphone at much lower bandwidths, even works over 3g most of the time.

By: BN

BN — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:15:13 +0000

PS3 or Xbox360 will also do this.

By: Pro Tech

Pro Tech — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:39:40 +0000

Why, I must wonder in absolute amazement, would any intelligent creature go to all of this trouble? I have a 3.4 GHz PC with 2Gb memory sitting behind a 7Mb DSL HSIA. Inside I have a digital video card (Nvidia Gforce) that has a S-Video output. I have a 20″ Digital monitor cabled to the digital output AND (get this) a 32″ Sony analog TV which has a S-Video input on the video 1 port in the back. This is so cool, I set my Nvidia so my monitor is my preferred device and the TV is my second device, I can adjust settings for each independent of the other. The result? I can stream perfectly anything I can find online (as long as the other end is fast enough to keep up with me). fox.com/fod for Fox TV programs works great, Hulu.com is a slow and jittery site, but Fancast.com is pretty good (but has a lot of the slow hulu programs). All in all, other than the original investment for the PC and video card (which was not purchased for this setup originally) I spent $40 for a 25′ S-Video cable and a 25′ 3.5mm audio cable so I didn’t have to move my PC from my work area to the living room. This my friends, is a cake walk. I can still work on my PC when the family wants to watch programs on TV.