Wireless TV Distribution

[rwarshawski]

When we designed and built our new house I thought we had covered all the bases as far as structured wiring, coax, etc. As it turns out the planned spot for the TV in the bedroom, which has power, 2 CAT5, and coax, hidden in the floor, doesn't have a high enough WAF. There is a wall that could take a TV on an angled mount, but, of course, there is no wire in the wall. I can fish in power up the inside of the wall from an outlet near the floor on that wall. No easy way to get a CAT A5 or other line there.
I have been looking at several wireless TV exenders but not with great success. It would be ideal to hook up my matrix switcher to a wireless device that could send it to a (inconspicuous) receiver on the TV.
I was also looking at having a PC output wirelessly to it. Among other products, I found this:

http://www.netgear.com/home/products.../XAVB5501.aspx

and http://www.netgear.com/home/products...s/PTV1000.aspx

and http://www.netgear.com/home/products.../WNCE2001.aspx

I am sure there are other vendors.

Any experience? And what about the powerline device? Does it interfere with UPB?

 

[Rupp]

I'm using Windows 7 and my laptop and wirelessly streaming all of my content using AllShare to my new Samsung TV and love it.

 

[tmbrown97]

I know they make a couple TVs where the electronics are all housed in a separate box that talks wirelessly to the TV. I'm not sure of the brands off hand but they should turn up in a search.

Basically TV just needs power, then the control box goes where you do have wires.

 

[rwarshawski]

From what I hear, some TV's have built in wireless-true? The devices from Netgearr seem to need a box, albeit small, to receive the signal and pass it to the TV. Space is at a premium, as the TV can't project v. far from the wall.

bob

 

[az1324]

Maybe look at a Wireless HDMI solution (coupon TECHBARG30 good for $30 off through October). Then put your equipment within 30ft, somewhere you can get cables to and mount the receiver to the back of the TV. Then you can have a few devices including cable/satellite box, bluray, media player and an HDMI switcher in a cabinet. And depending on your needs a TV with wifi and built in streaming could solve some/all of your problems. I have no experience with wireless HDMI so you will want to do some research on performance & capabilities.