Well, judging by the title you probably wouldn't have guessed this post was about an Xbox huh? huh?
Anyways, for the past few days I've been experimenting with my router(Belkin), my pc(Vista), the family pc(XP), and my Xbox(Guess...). What for you might ask...well...to play all my favorite tv shows and movies over my tv via wireless link to my Xbox that's what for! I didn't even know this when I purchased my Xbox360 but it doubles as a "Media Extender" what that means is supposedly you can use it as somewhat of a tivo with playback from your PC that you connect it to.
After 5 hours of talking with both Belkin and Microsoft, I finally gave up trying to use it as an extender and settled for being able to have it look through My Documents, find videos, music, pictures, and display/play them on my TV. Sure I lost some functionality, but at least it works darnit! (By the way, as a Media Extender the Xbox can only hook up to ONE pc, but as just a normal Xbox, it can view and play any files in any shared folders on ANY computer in your network!)
What this Means: I can now download my favorite anime from www.dattebayo.com (Currently Bleach ep. 170) and play it over my TV (or any tv in the house) using my xbox while I'm on the PC doing other things, chatting it up with friends, grinding/fishing in WoW, all that good stuff.
Also, no Blu-Ray Drive on your Xbox? No big deal! You can stream HD content EASILY.
Basically, I'm getting a 42" Toshiba LCD here in...about 3 weeks, I can set that tv up in my room, hook my xbox up to it, and play anything I want on it from my computer Note: I'm buying a DVI to HDMI cable as well ($35) so I can play PC games over it if I want.
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I have a similar setup. I bought a 22" flatscreen from Tigerdirect and used a KVM switch to run my PC, PS3, and 360 into the video input (VGA) on the back of the monitor. This required buying a HDMI to DVI-D cable for the PS3 and a VGA cable for the 360.
To split my audio, I had to hack together a few audio cables with adapters and use a Belkin 4-way A/V splitter. (The KVM I have doesn't support audio throughput)
Now with the push of a couple buttons I can route whatever video I want from whatever device I want to my flatscreen monitor. Woo hoo!
That sounds like a pain though Hoji...I already have a 22inch widescreen for the pc, this is just going to be tv games so I won't have to do anything so drastic thankfully, PC on the big screen will only be occasional and it has the regular HDMI 1 + Audio input for a PC alongside the normal VGA input. What I don't get though is why all these tv manufacturers are going HDMI/VGA when if they really want someone to hook a computer up to it they might as well go HDMI/DVI, it's easier and you don't have to go buying all sorts of converters to get the job done, usually the cords had either came with your card or your computer monitor anyways.
Yeah, I know :) It was a bit of a pain, but it was kinda fun at the same time... getting everything hacked into place.
I bought a cheap monitor then paid the price to get everything hooked into it. When I get my full-size LCD or Plasma later this year or next year I'll just be able to connect everything like a normal human.
Oh I see what you mean, yeah I have a TV and a monitor in my room now so that's not a problem for me, I don't know what I would've done if I didn't have both. Being able to be like a normal human being is good in this regard heh.
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