Streaming Movies From PC On HDTV

Digital world is now growing rapidly and change are increasingly felt. For those who love to travel, through the tablet or smartphone, is now able to stream just by pressing just one button icon. But what about those who are happy at home and have a fairly sophisticated gadgets. 

Call it the 50-inch LED TV and a High End PC. TV was simply unemployed because most movies and series choices are stored on your PC and watch were less satisfied because the monitor measures just 21-inches. The above example may be a bit extreme, but many gamers and users who encounter such problems. Lately there has been a solution for it, but the process may be a little inconvenient having to set your software and hardware. We here present to give a few tips to provide a solution for you.

Before you begin, make sure your TV can receive a data stream. A wireless network certainly will be needed in the process. There are various home networks can be created and setup, but here we will only make a connection from the PC to the TV.

If you use Windows, either Windows Media Center or Windows Media Player, the player has a built-in media sharing settings. You can create an entire library of content that is owned [kinds iTunes], then select the option to mensharenya. In the process, you must select and setting up two devices to be connected and data types that you want to share [video, image, even text document]. Last is the folder location that will be used as the location data that can be accessed by other devices [TV].

For gamers who use Mac, there are options iDevice provided on the iTunes Store. The process for menshare kinds WMC and WMP files is fairly easy to do as in the Window. So long as the PC and Mac support Sharring file, you are now looking to set up menus and folders only.

  

On the PC, most gamers would have to use anti-virus software and enable the firewall. On the wireless router also must have included a built-in protection software. In order for the streaming process can proceed smoothly, then you must make the process of networking wizardry. To do this easily, you could use the help of http://portforward.com/. There are instructions for setting sega kinds of wireless networking, including router and firewall setting.

Streaming At Gaming Consoles

Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 is the easiest solution to menstreaming content from the PC to the TV. Menyetingnya way was very easy because both consoles are made for streaming content either download or upload, plus can play the game anyway. Gamers should do is access the content inside the folder that was prepared on a PC via the console.

With the Xbox, the process is very easy where gamers just need to go to the Video Library, then select your PC from the list that appears. Note: if not listed in the list, then there is the possibility of incorrect settings on the share settings. Process on the PS3 a little tricky. First, you must go into the settings menu and select Network Settings. From there, make sure that the Media Server Connection (the last item on the list) is set to "Enabled". After that, an option Search for Media Server will appear in the Video, Music and Photos menu, select the desired channel to access content from a PC. PC intended to be discovered and added to the list. After the PC is listed in the console, just select the PC and you will be able to browse the folders and files that are pre-arranged.

On a Mac, the process felt quite complicated. The most easy way is to find the folder where your iTunes content are stored. Add Dolder on WMP shared libraries, then do the stream with the above process. If you still can not, then you must use third-party software to create a Media Server.

There are various options, all of which correspond to different objectives and support different platforms and / or file format. Opinions differ about which is best, but some popular choices that are widely used TVersity (Windows), TwonkyMedia Server (Win / Mac / Linux / Android), Connect360 (Mac iTunes / iPhoto to X360), PlayOn (Windows, web content streams ), Serviio (Win / Mac / Linux), Mezzmo (Win), Rivet (Mac) and the Allegro Media Server (Win / Mac, designed specifically for iTunes streaming). 

The downside to all streaming console option, all content can be accessed including those already protected, and some HD video formats are not playable.

Streaming On Disc Player

The console is not the only media so that you can stream from your PC. There is now a variety of Blu-ray/DVD player with built-in wi-fi chip that can do streaming from web sources such as Netflix and Pandora and media PCs.

there are some important things that need to be known. Wi-fi chip on a dedicated disc player is not always reliable; LG BD570 is very fragile in terms of video-streaming, as well as the Sony BDP-S570. Of course, 3D models of the Sony supports Blu-ray, so if Disc Player is your choice, you may want to try it.

Streaming At the Digital Media Receiver

A digital media receiver will eliminate the need for you to game console or disc player that is equipped with wi-fi. The device is constructed to receive streaming content. Apple TV for example, is by far the most popular choice. He can operate on Windows or Mac and is the only way to stream content that is protectable, obtained through the iTunes Store from your computer to your TV. In some cases, such as video rentals, Apple TV will pass through your computer completely and stream content directly from the Internet. Penyetingannya process is straightforward, but must pay a fee of $ 99.

If you are the type of people who are reluctant to use Apple products, especially since iTunes protected content might not be concerned. Sony offers junior-N100 for $ 99, basically reproduces many of the basic features of Apple. Such as Roku, SMP-N100 can stream content from a variety of web-based sources, including Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon, and Pandora. SMP-N100 has the same DLNA Xbox 360/PS3, this means the setting is done to menshare folder on the PC, will be detected here. User interface is also very similar to that of the XMB the PS3 version.

Last is to use the media kind of Western Digital's WD TV, which is sold at price range around $ 179. Of course there kebelihan are you going to get kind of a TB hard drive and a wide range of compatibility of various file formats. 

Unfortunately WD TV not equipped with a built-in wi-fi, but already support USB wi-fi dongles. With a capacity of 1 TB of disk space, you can store all the content directly into it, cut the streaming process which requires fast internet connection.

If the price is not a problem for you, then you might want to consider McTiVia recently released. Already compatible with Windows and Mac, sold for $ 289.99. McTiVia can stream content from PC to TV, 

but also has the additional ability to function as a wireless access point, which allows you to control up to eight PC using the mouse and keyboard that are mounted. The price is quite high and the devices are still very new, so it remains to be tested further.