TV wireless connection
 

There was a post on here a while ago that I just can't find. It was about running your TV signal through a wireless router to your laptop. Does anyone do this? Or know how to do it?

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Do you mean like Slingbox?

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I believe that this is the post that you wanted:

http://www.cigarasylum.com/vb/showthread.php?t=5248

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I've never heard or running a TV signal through a wireless router.

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:tpd: Slingbox would be the way to go...

or sites like:

www.hulu.com
www.surfthechannel.com
www.sidereel.com
www.abc.com
www.nbc.com
www.cbs.com

:ss

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That is what is was, HD DVD and Blueray. Thanks. Could you do this with a HD digital box?

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HD DVD and Blu-ray are discs that require a player, not a HD digital box.

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I meant "players". I was just wondering if you can connect your "players" to your wireless network, can you connect your HD Digital Box to your network.
I have no idea what I am doing when it comes to this stuff. Most of the people here are pretty helpful. Just thought I would see if it was possible.

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Yes it's very possible. I did this recently. Check out the link that sergeant smoky posted.

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The question that comes to my mind is what exactly are you trying to do?

If you're looking to connect a blu ray player so that you can access BD-Live! features, Justin is correct and see that thread.

If what you're trying to do is connect a blu-ray player to your network so that you can stream content to other locations in your house, no, there is no solution that I know of although I could be wrong. Even if you can you would run into a bandwidth problem unless you were running on an "N" network.

As to HD digital boxes again the question is what are you trying to do? My Directtv is on my network through a wired connection so depending on your service and box type, yes it's possible to connect a HD TV box to the network.

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What I am trying to do, if possible, is to watch a TV signal wirelessly on a laptop. I checked out the "slingbox" and I also saw the thread about the wireless bridge and was trying to figure out if I could run a wirelss router on my cable box and run another wireless router on my network and watch TV on my laptop. The slingbox sure looks like the way to go but more expensive than an additional router.
Now if I can connect the TV to the network router with wire, that would work too. Is that what you did? Can you watch TV on your network?

Thanks for the info.

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I'm not exactly sure but I don't think this can be done over a network. Slingbox seems to be exactly what you want. Depending on your HD TV reception you may want to look at USB HD TV capture cards.

http://www.hauppauge.com/site/produc..._external.html

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Define "watch tv":D

I have DirecTV, and I also have an HD DVR (HR22 model). IF you have DirecTV, and IF you have one of the HD DVR's, it can be connected to your network, they have a program called DirecTV2PC that allows you to watch what's on the DVR on your PC. I personally haven't tried it out, if only because if I'm in the house I'm going to watch TV on, well, my TV:D. I guess I just don't see the usefullness for me, other it may be useful for others.

Check this link for more info:

http://www.hdupdate.com/2008/10/dire...c-to-beta.html