Re: How to set up PC and TV
- From: "Il Principe" <IlPrincipe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 09:39:02 -0800
Thanks Richard,
If I understand correctly then, the keyboard and mouse interact with the
bluetooth 'point' extended from the PC via USB cable. I am not sure I
understood how the remote control (which is Infra red, I guess) talks to the
PC: is it via the same bluetooth points that keyboard and mouse access?
For the connection to the TV, I suppose you could have run a VGA/RGB cable
into the back of your TV if it has a 9pin input, and a separate audio cable;
alternatively a HDMI or DVI would have worked. This is to see the PC in the
TV as a monitor.
What about the Media Center menu (my videos, my pictures etc..) How do they
get shown on the TV? is it via the same cable (s-video in your case), or
else? I was told that can be done also via Wi-Fi. But then you need to change
TV channel depending on whether you use the TV as a Media Center or as a PC
monitor proper.
For recording, I understand the PC only records according to what tuner
there are inside, regardless of what the TV has or shows. So I suppose you
also run a video signal back from your living room into your PC (assuming you
also watch tv on your TV). So that in reality there is no tranmission of
anything in the direction TV-PC, apart from the play/record/view command sent
from the remote control into the bluetooth (or other mean...see my first
paragraph).
On the screen problem. Do you have to use dual display only because the size
of TV and Monitor are different or for other reason? why does the LCD TV
solve the problem? I also suppose that if you are in the TV room watching My
Videos while your wife is at the PC, you have to size the windows of MC and
her appliction in order not to run into each other. Maybe if you used a
second PC-TV connection (such as WiFi), you could solve this problem; still
your wife may lose the mouse into the TV, but you won't see it. Would it be
different if you had a different video card (or two separate video outputs?).
Sorry again for the long message, but I believe I getting closer to
understanding a bit more.
THANKS
"Richard Wagstaff" wrote:
> I've done something similar.
>
> I have the media center PC in one room and the TV in another. Living in a
> bungalow I've used a mixture of wires & Bluetooth.
>
> I have connected the TV via 20 metre S-video and audio connections. I've
> also ran a usb cable into the loft with a powered USB on the end of it.
> Plugged into the USB hub is the MC remote (which then feeds down into the
> living room) and a Bluetooth dongle which sits in the loft. I can now use
> the keyboard, mouse and MC remote in the living room.
>
> To record TV on the Media Center you will need the TV Card in the PC - I
> have two in my box. Can't answer about satellite I don't have one.
>
> The only problem I have is the mix & match screens. My PC monitor is a 20"
> wide screen and the TV is a 28" CRT so I've configured the dual display mode
> on my graphics card. A bit clunky (the wife can never find the mouse
> pointer when she uses the PC) but it woks good enough until we can bring
> ourselves to splash out on a decent plasma/LCD TV.
>
> Richard
>
>
> "Il Principe" <IlPrincipe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:53B33BA0-17E7-47B5-A5ED-821EBF46B886@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I am trying to buy a Media Center PC to connect to both a monitor and a
> > LCD
> > TV placed in a separate room (beyond 10mt), either through wireless or
> > wired
> > connection. I would need to use the TV both as a media center and as a
> > normal
> > PC monitor to work from the confort of the living room. I guees this is
> > one
> > of the key feature of Media Center.
> >
> > However, I have not been able to find any UK computer sales person who can
> > understand and answer what I am trying to do (and maybe I don't explain it
> > well).
> >
> > Can anyone, please tell me if they have a similar configuration and how
> > you
> > did it?
> >
> > The most basic questions are:
> >
> > Does anyone know somebody in any London computer shop who knows the topic
> > very well.
> >
> > Since the TV is in a separete room from the PC, does the MC remote work?
> > Someone said that if I connect TV via Wi-Fi, then the remote would talk to
> > the Wi-Fi receiver in the TV room and send the commands back to the PC
> >
> > When I use the TV as a PC monitor, keyboard and mouse are too far from the
> > PC. Can I get Class1 bluetooth keyboard and mouse or extend the bluetooth
> > point via a long USB cable into the TV room?
> >
> > If I want to record TV on the PC, do I need tuner on both TV and PC? Same
> > if
> > I want to record Satellite TV (free or not free)?
> >
> > Thank you and apologies for the long question
> >
> > Il Principe
>
>
>
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