Need Solution...Display from PC to HDTV Wirelessly Roughly 50 ft

[SALvation]

I could use some help looking for a solution for one of our clients. They would like to display Flash animations, their website, and other general stuff from a PC, wirelessly (or wired) to an LCD TV that would be wall-mounted about 50 ft away.

If the signal is wireless, it would only have to travel about 50 ft. If wired, it would be closer to 100ft of wire. What would be the best way to get a signal to those TVs? Is a wireless solution viable? Worst case, we could stick a PC near the ceiling about 10ft away, but wireless is preferred.

 

[Rage187]

use a projector, I can't think of a wireless way to send video off the top of my head.

 

[SALvation]

Projector is not an option. He has an LCD TV wall mounted in a separate room. Looking online the Hauppage MediaMVP would be perfect if it let you view web pages and Flash animations. I see it does web pages with a hack but I rather not have to rely on a hack to do this.

 

[Rage187]

you could probably build a SFF with a decent video card and wireless for $200.

 

[nullpointerus]

Originally posted by: SALvation
I could use some help looking for a solution for one of our clients. They would like to display Flash animations, their website, and other general stuff from a PC, wirelessly (or wired) to an LCD TV that would be wall-mounted about 50 ft away.

If the signal is wireless, it would only have to travel about 50 ft. If wired, it would be closer to 100ft of wire. What would be the best way to get a signal to those TVs? Is a wireless solution viable? Worst case, we could stick a PC near the ceiling about 10ft away, but wireless is preferred.

Here's one that advertises 30m (i.e. ~98ft) range indoors (and 100m outdoors).

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications...em-details.asp?EdpNo=152088&CatId=1430

EDIT: Hmm...it only appears to support composite out on the receiver, which is not exactly very good for text viewing on a HDTV. I seem to remember a VGA-to-VGA wireless solution somewhere - maybe google will be more helpful.

 

[mikek753]

bring your PC to LCD or use laptop to hide in walls with wi-fi adapter
add to it BT k/b mouse that would give you some distance
and you'll not loose any video quality - IMO

 

[BuckWild024]

If you want to go wired, they have devices called baluns, that will transmit most types of a/v thru cat5 - http://www.smarthome.com/7805CV.html
If you want to go wireless, you can go with any number of wireless HD capable media extenders, i.e. Roku (not soundbridge), etc...
A company called Radiospire just introduced a wireless HDMI solution, but is not yet available - www.radiospire.com
You could also go with a wireless KVM. http://sewelldirect.com/Wireless-VGA-Extender.asp
The cheapest solution by far is the baluns.

hope this helps!

 

[Raduque]

You could try using Slingboxes. THey are wireless, i think. Designed to send a signal over a network, to a display device.

edit: I don't think a Media Center Extender is the correct option for this OP, buckwild. IIRC, they only work with Media Center, and won't extend a general Windows desktop.

 

[BuckWild024]

I said media extender, not Media Center extender. Also, Slingboxes dont transmit HD. And they are not wireless out of the box, they just have an RJ45 port. But way to put alot of thought and research into your post tho...

 

[Rage187]

Originally posted by: BuckWild024
I said media extender, not Media Center extender. Also, Slingboxes dont transmit HD. And they are not wireless out of the box, they just have an RJ45 port. But way to put alot of thought and research into your post tho...

he's not trying to transmit HDTV, just to a HDTV.

They would like to display Flash animations, their website, and other general stuff from a PC

 

[Fox5]

Originally posted by: SALvation
I could use some help looking for a solution for one of our clients. They would like to display Flash animations, their website, and other general stuff from a PC, wirelessly (or wired) to an LCD TV that would be wall-mounted about 50 ft away.

If the signal is wireless, it would only have to travel about 50 ft. If wired, it would be closer to 100ft of wire. What would be the best way to get a signal to those TVs? Is a wireless solution viable? Worst case, we could stick a PC near the ceiling about 10ft away, but wireless is preferred.

You could do wireless with a PC.
Set up a small pc nearby it, then use an adhoc network to transmit video (maybe using remote desktop? or heck, just control the pc using remote desktop)

If you want to go wired, they have devices called baluns, that will transmit most types of a/v thru cat5 - http://www.smarthome.com/7805CV.html

Could it be combined with a wireless ethernet bridge?

 

[Raduque]

Originally posted by: BuckWild024
But way to put alot of thought and research into your post tho...

Who p1ssed in your cornflakes this morning? Thanks for being an ass.

Media Extender's won't work anyway. They only catalog and transmit media files to a display using it's own interface, he want's a wireless way to send a Windows desktop to a display.