Networking home entertainment
Feb. 5th, 2009 05:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cryowizardHooked up my new TV via network to my PC running a DLNA-compliant media server (TVersity Media Server, if you care) and now I can watch movie files, listen to music and view photos on a high definition 1920x1080 50" screen. Sweet.
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Date: 2009-02-06 06:16 pm (UTC)The client allows you to hook up a regular ethernet cable to the TV or player and it can stream data from any uPnP-compliant media server it finds on that network. In this case I simply run TVersity on my PC, it indexes any music, photos and videos from the directories you tell it to, and that's it -- TV can can see it and play it over the network. It's not the same as simply hooking up the PC to the TV via AV inputs. It all networked, baby :)
So check your TV if it has an ethernet jack in the back. If not -- sorry :)