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Wireless 1080p from first floor to second?

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DaveSimmons

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A friend wants to use wireless 1080p to send cable and a blu-ray player from the first floor of his house, to a bedroom directly above it.

So far the reviews of the wireless 1080p devices I've read have said they work OK in the same room but not reliably through walls or floors. Do any of them do it well?

Another idea would be a powerline based transmitter / receiver if anyone offers that.
 
If you have to do streaming, do powerline as opposed to wireless, should have some units out there strong enough from what ive heard.

sdifox is right though, cheaper to get another player if that solution will work.
 
DaveSimmons said:
A friend wants to use wireless 1080p to send cable and a blu-ray player from the first floor of his house, to a bedroom directly above it.
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What exactly is your friend trying to do? It sounds like he wants to have a BD player on the first floor and send the signal wirelessly to a TV set on another floor. I ask because at least one other response appears to thinking about using wifi to get the signal from a PC to the BD player, not from the BD player to the TV. The difference is tremendous. There are lots of cheap wifi enabled BD players that can accept streams wirelessly from a PC. However, getting the signal to a TV set generally requires an HDMI cable. There are some new wireless HDMI transmission options but they are pretty expensive. It would be much cheaper at this point to simply buy an additional player.
 
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Eh if its going through wifi it will be heavily recompressed. You are talking 4gb/s datarate... no chance.

So why bother....
It isn't a good solution.
 
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MadScientist said:
My son has an LG BD570 blu ray player with wifi. Streams video to it from 2 rooms away, works well. I watched a streaming movie from Netflix on his TV last week. No problems. http://www.lg.com/us/tv-audio-video/video/LG-blu-ray-dvd-player-BD570.jsp

He got it for $127. shipped from Amazon. OOS for now.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0036WT1RW/ref=ord_cart_shr?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER
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I have the same player... and it streams over wifi fine from being on the 3rd story and the pc is in the basement....

I had no issues with streaming bluray files from my pc.... i dont netflix so i wouldnt know
 
0roo0roo said:
Eh if its going through wifi it will be heavily recompressed. You are talking 4gb/s datarate... no chance.

So why bother....
It isn't a good solution.
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Uh, its Mb, not Gb. Just a little different 😉

EDIT: I think you guys are misunderstanding what the OP is asking for anyway. Guy has 1080p sources in the living room and wants to stream the HDMI output wirelessly to a tv located on the 2nd floor.
 
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NutBucket said:
Uh, its Mb, not Gb. Just a little different 😉

EDIT: I think you guys are misunderstanding what the OP is asking for anyway. Guy has 1080p sources in the living room and wants to stream the HDMI output wirelessly to a tv located on the 2nd floor.
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Did they ever get wireless HDMI out on the shelves? They've been talking about it for years but never produced anything really concrete for sale AFAIK.

If its just for a bedroom, get another player. Any sort of wireless system is probably going to be costly. I know the Slingboxes are $200. You can get stand alone blurays for about $150 these days, often less.
 
NutBucket said:
Uh, its Mb, not Gb. Just a little different 😉

EDIT: I think you guys are misunderstanding what the OP is asking for anyway. Guy has 1080p sources in the living room and wants to stream the HDMI output wirelessly to a tv located on the 2nd floor.
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Naw, its Gb, hdmi streams uncompressed video.
 
I know what the OP is trying to do, but I agree with other posters that it would be cheaper to get another blu ray player with wifi capability.
 
^ I'm going to recommend that, and that takes care of Netflix and discs, but not cable TV. He says he almost never watches cable so it might be good enough.
 
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MadScientist said:
My son has an LG BD570 blu ray player with wifi. Streams video to it from 2 rooms away, works well. I watched a streaming movie from Netflix on his TV last week. No problems. http://www.lg.com/us/tv-audio-video/video/LG-blu-ray-dvd-player-BD570.jsp

He got it for $127. shipped from Amazon. OOS for now.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0036WT1RW/ref=ord_cart_shr?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER
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I bought that player. Has all sorts of interesting streaming capabilities.

Too bad it's terrible for Blu-ray playback. Buggy as hell. If you just stick in the disc and select play, and then play it all the way through, it's fine. If you go back and forth between audio tracks and skip back and forth, then its bugs really start to show on certain titles. I returned it very shortly after buying it.

Also, even though it does stream a lot of stuff, the way it handles it leaves a lot to be desired. Some of the problems I noticed for Blu-ray happens with MKV as well. I have since bought a Sony BDP-S370 instead. It doesn't stream as much, and plays fewer MKV, but when it does it plays them much more consistently than the LG ever did. Same goes for Blu-ray playback. All the glitches I got with the LG are absent on the Sony.

But yeah, at the OP, buy another player. It's a lot better and a lot cheaper than basically any other solution. For cable, run another cable.
 
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