Situation:

New lounge setup has wooden floor, and it's a complete mission to run cales from my PC to my TV - thus making it very difficult to play movies (from my PC) on my TV.

There are two solutions:

1. get a small PC (shuttle ish) - but quiet to play movies stored on PC via wireless.

2. Buy a hardware wireless "movie player"

Hardware options are:

clicky 1

clicky2

clicky3

Of the 3 possible the second one.

If anyone has done this before I'd really appreciate some advice / recommendations.

 

I have the d-link - no issues now I have junked the dlink media server and using windows media connect (currently I am beta testing version 2 - very good)

If I was starting from scratch and had the spare cash I would go for a full media pc to do all the jobs dvd recorder tv tuner etc etc

 

I'm building a media PC from bits I had lying around / a few new purchases.

Spec will be...

Athlon 2700 (NOT 64bit)
A-Bit m/b with SATA / SPDIF out
160gb hdd
Geforce 6200 gfx
Nova-T Digital TV card.
Media Portal s/w

PSU fan will probably be noisyest (sp?!) to start with but I'll upgrade over time. Tv volume should cover it!

But I did look at the Pinnacle showcenter - maybe an option for upstairs later on

 

Pinnical have just released the "showcenter 200" which looks better as it offers HDTV out - which gives it some more longevity & built in wireless (& lan).

I looked at the media center PC route, but really don't fancy another pc kicking about in the house & it costs alot more.

Talking to some friends, possible a modded x-box with a wireless hub is also an option, but I think I'll go with the showcenter 200.

 

Was looking into this a bit ago myself.. Hanging around to see what the xbox 360 is like but I've read it won't play divx.. only wmv