I'm getting a blu ray player for my PC... anyway that I can send a high-def signal wirelessly to my TV? My suitemate used to broadcast movies from his PC to his TV, but the quality wasn't all that great. Anyway to do this?

4/25/2008 9:05:49 AM

have you looked up the data rate for blu-ray and compared it to how fast you can transfer video in your house

4/25/2008 9:15:54 AM

good luck

4/25/2008 9:19:10 AM

good luck

appleTV?

4/25/2008 9:26:32 AM

^^^ No. Which is why I'm asking.

I understand that this can't be done over conventional wireless networks. But I was wondering if there was something else out there... maybe you wouldn't have to stream it, but set it to download, after 35% is downloaded, play. That at the very least isn't difficult if I want to invest in a new computer just for the TV... but I don't want to do that.

[Edited on April 25, 2008 at 9:29 AM. Reason : .]

4/25/2008 9:28:23 AM

your best bet is to rip the blu-ray to your hdd and then hdmi out to your tv

you could have downloaded it faster though

4/25/2008 9:30:39 AM

I'm going to invent this.

4/25/2008 9:56:47 AM

I've streamed HD movies from my pc to my xbox 360 and it seemed to be pretty damn good HD. But that doesn't really contribute anything to this thread.



You are welcome.

4/25/2008 10:09:29 AM

i don't think the bandwidth is a problem. if 802.11a/g can't do it, i would think 802.11n could do it. i don't even know what kind of input the tv would take that you could send a wireless datastream to. you'd have to have some intermediary device that is hooked up via hdmi to the tv. so it'd be blu-ray drive -> pc -> wireless to STB -> tv. i don't it would survive the journey

^ sure, you can stream ripped content pretty easily. but if you want to stick a blu-ray disc in a PC and stream it live, i don't see that happening

[Edited on April 25, 2008 at 10:11 AM. Reason : you could rip the blu-ray to hard drive but then you're waiting hours to rip/encode, etc]

4/25/2008 10:09:45 AM

i think the problem here is that you're getting a bluray player for your pc and not your tv. is it free or something?

4/25/2008 10:13:52 AM

http://www.google.com/search?q=stream+HD+from+PC+to+TV

4/25/2008 10:14:58 AM

uncompressed blu-ray, not a chance on 802.11g, your best bet is 802.11n

compressed blu-ray? well you might as well download it like Omar said. or decode it yourself to your computer harddrive in x264

[Edited on April 25, 2008 at 10:37 AM. Reason : .]

4/25/2008 10:36:01 AM

^^ i see a lot of solutions for streaming ripped content, not for blu-ray disc direct.

4/25/2008 10:37:14 AM

Wireless HDMI? Don't know much about it other than it exists, but it's probably very short range and requires line of sight. Other than that, like people have said, even streaming compressed HD over wireless is iffy at best.

4/25/2008 10:49:32 AM

does this work?
http://www.gefen.com/kvm/product.jsp?prod_id=4318

[Edited on April 25, 2008 at 10:53 AM. Reason : k]

4/25/2008 10:52:48 AM

your problem is that you want to do this wirelessly

4/25/2008 10:55:09 AM

Quote :

"i think the problem here is that you're getting a bluray player for your pc and not your tv."

honestly it would probably be cheaper in the long run and definitely easier to just buy a standalone player for your tv.

4/25/2008 11:32:05 AM

^^^ for $700, it had better work AND make me breakfast every morning

4/25/2008 2:25:03 PM

Quote :

"I'm getting a blu ray player for my PC... anyway that I can send a high-def signal wirelessly to my TV? My suitemate used to broadcast movies from his PC to his TV, but the quality wasn't all that great. Anyway to do this?"

Yes. Can you do it for under ~500 bucks? Not wirelessly without realtime transcoding.

Wireless HDMI, DVI or Component connections work pretty well, they are just extremely expensive and have a fairly short range (50ft MAX from what I've read about in real-world situations)

4/25/2008 5:43:45 PM

Why is everyone saying you can't use a regular wireless network? I streamed ripped HD DVDs from my PC to the XBOX over wireless without any problems. I imagine you can do the exact same thing with a blu-ray

4/25/2008 5:54:41 PM

uncompressed HD rips?

[Edited on April 25, 2008 at 5:59 PM. Reason : 1080p?]

4/25/2008 5:58:14 PM

I mean, again, I'm not saying this should be done real time. If you can allow like a 30% buffer, why wouldn't this be possible?

4/25/2008 10:29:27 PM

i think the point here is ...RUN A CABLE. swing by mono pirce and get one of thier 25ft hdmi cables for 25$. that's the easiest most cost effective way to do things

4/26/2008 11:24:40 AM