DVD movies from a computer to a TV for viewing?
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From: Artreid on 29 Jul 2010 03:11 I hope I'm in the right NP or someone can point me to one. Is there a device that will allow one to send a DVD signal from a PC to a TV for viewing? I am runnng Win7 x64 w/ Media Center and would like to show movies on my TV.
From: Jeff Gaines on 29 Jul 2010 04:03 On 29/07/2010 in message <1134458F-D104-40F3-BB86-043188A1E6DA(a)microsoft.com> Artreid wrote: >I hope I'm in the right NP or someone can point me to one. > >Is there a device that will allow one to send a DVD signal from a PC to a >TV for viewing? >I am runnng Win7 x64 w/ Media Center and would like to show movies on my >TV. An XBox will play DVD's, as will other manufacturers' equivalents. A Western Digital TV live is quite versatile in what it can display on a TV. It will either read data from an attached USB drive (not provided with the TV Live) or you can network it. I backed up my DVD's (using DVD Shrink) and put the resultant files on a USB drive and they all play fine on the TV Live. Full quality picture and sound. -- Jeff Gaines Dorset UK That's an amazing invention but who would ever want to use one of them? (President Hayes speaking to Alexander Graham Bell on the invention of the telephone)
From: Dominic Payer on 29 Jul 2010 04:33 It depends what connections your TV has and what outputs from the PC are available. It is just a question of connecting audio and video outputs from the PC to the TV. Nothing special is required. The TV is just a secondary monitor - the only monitor if you have a Home Theater PC (HTPC). If the TV has an HDMI input and your graphics card an HDMI output, or the graphics card can accept a DVI to HDMI converter, you can use that if you install a HDMI audio driver. Otherwise, you need separate video and audio cables. On 29/07/2010 08:11, Artreid wrote: > I hope I'm in the right NP or someone can point me to one. > > Is there a device that will allow one to send a DVD signal from a PC to > a TV for viewing? > I am runnng Win7 x64 w/ Media Center and would like to show movies on my > TV.
From: barb bowman on 29 Jul 2010 04:42 Only if you are directly connected. DRM prevents doing this over the network. On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:11:25 -0400, "Artreid" <artreid44(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >I hope I'm in the right NP or someone can point me to one. > >Is there a device that will allow one to send a DVD signal from a PC to a TV >for viewing? >I am runnng Win7 x64 w/ Media Center and would like to show movies on my >TV. Barb Bowman MS-MVP http://www.digitalmediaphile.com http://digitalmediaphile.wordpress.com
From: barb bowman on 29 Jul 2010 04:43
true, but you can't just put a DVD in the drive of a Windows 7 machine and auto magically send it over the network to another destination like a TV because DRM prevents this. On 29 Jul 2010 08:03:37 GMT, "Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >I backed up my DVD's (using DVD >Shrink) and put the resultant files on a USB drive and they all play fine >on the TV Live. Full quality picture and sound. Barb Bowman MS-MVP http://www.digitalmediaphile.com http://digitalmediaphile.wordpress.com |