Wireless connection from laptop to tv

[bluegrassdan]

What is the best device for using your tv as a monitor with a wireless connection? Like to be able to stream things like netflix , surf the net and watch tv shows from the tv network websites.

Thanks for your time

[Bob740]

bluegrassdan, I have tried all of them I could find, and I returned all of them. I now just use a HDMI cable between my laptop and TV. It's a much better picture being hard cabled in direct. Sorry, I can't recommend any of them.

Re-reading your post, maybe I mis-understood your question and gave the wrong answer.

[MarkHamisha]

bluegrassdan, I fully understand what you're looking for as I'm looking for the exact same thing and couldn't find anything. I have a desktop which I can't just 'drag' from one room to the living room where my LG tv is located and of course I can't connect them via an HDMI cable, right..? I'm sure there's some kind of a solution for that but the problem is that I'm probably lacking the right terminology while searching on google...I'd love to know where I can find a solution to that.

[RE_MOTE]

Huh! Me too!...I'm turning over the web, hunting it out....guess they don't have a name for it yet,...I gotta WD media player an early one connected to an external hard drive, should have got the later model with the network connection plug...maybe??

[freebird73717]

No idea how well this would work but you might look into hdmi over ethernet if you have the option to run long cable runs of cat5

[jagabo]

wireless hdmi: http://www.gefen.com/kvm/dproduct.jsp?prod_id=4318

[Bjs]

Boxee box

[olyteddy]

THIS?

[wigbatt]

Hi there, I am new to this site, and looking for the same thing...... Wirelessly streaming video etc from my wifi enabled laptop, to my TV, but I have an internet linked sony bravia tv, and still cant find a way of linking the two! You would have thought that you could use your N series router to communicate between them!

I am not the brightest with computers', so if anyone has any idea on how I can link the two for video playback, then please let me know!

Thanks in advance!

By the way, I am in the UK!

[jagabo]

Does your Bravia have wifi built in? If not you can add wifi with something like

http://www.amazon.com/IOGEAR-Universal-Adapter-Office-GWU627/dp/B004UAKCS6/
http://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-WNCE2001-Universal-Internet-Adapter/dp/B003KPBRRW/
http://www.amazon.com/TRENDnet-Wireless-Gaming-Adapter-TEW-647GA/dp/B0024G48VA/

If your TV will play video files via network shares use that. If it supports DLNA get some DNLA server software for the laptop.

DLNA servers:
http://www.rbgrn.net/content/21-how-to-choose-dlna-media-server-windows-mac-os-x-or-linux
http://www.playon.tv/index.php

Otherwise just get a wifi media player like the Western Digital WDTV Plus and add a USB wifi adapter.

[wigbatt]

My Sony Bravia TV does have built in wifi, and i can watch internet TV streamed straight from the internet anytime wirelessly, but only with the widgets pre-installed, like bbc iplayer and youtube etc, but I want to stream from my laptop. Is there any way I can stream through my wireless N series router, it's a D-link??????

I'm sure it cant be hard!

Thanks for the links, but they would not be suitable for the job I need it to do!

Kind Regards,

Craig!

[jagabo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NogWaqM_DH0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z38E1_rya58