I have built a HTPC using Win7 and Windows Media Extender. It's works very good and the wife does not complain too much about it.
I've been wanting to put the HTPC in my server room (basement closet) so that it's out of site, out of mind of my green minded wife. I'm having trouble trying to find some kind of good let alone any media center extenders for the TV. I do have a LG Smart TV but its dumber than a box of rock IMO. It can host files via a folder driven menu. Well, the wife seems to completely incapable of using such type of menus and I need something that's easier to use like WMC. The other problem I'm running into is trying to stream live TV from the HTPC to the TV. The LG TV is completely unable to perform such a task. My home is wired for Gigabit so bandwidth should not be an issues.
So what are my options here? I'm lost as to what to do. And I really do not want to spend more than $100 on something. It is possible for me salvage and hack together a crappy computer to act a Extender if possible.
The biggest reason to do this is to have so called extenders to all TVs in the house and to have one central media server for the house. I've been contemplating installing a server rack.
Edited by FireBean - 9/4/12 at 4:05pm
I've been wanting to put the HTPC in my server room (basement closet) so that it's out of site, out of mind of my green minded wife. I'm having trouble trying to find some kind of good let alone any media center extenders for the TV. I do have a LG Smart TV but its dumber than a box of rock IMO. It can host files via a folder driven menu. Well, the wife seems to completely incapable of using such type of menus and I need something that's easier to use like WMC. The other problem I'm running into is trying to stream live TV from the HTPC to the TV. The LG TV is completely unable to perform such a task. My home is wired for Gigabit so bandwidth should not be an issues.
So what are my options here? I'm lost as to what to do. And I really do not want to spend more than $100 on something. It is possible for me salvage and hack together a crappy computer to act a Extender if possible.
The biggest reason to do this is to have so called extenders to all TVs in the house and to have one central media server for the house. I've been contemplating installing a server rack.
Edited by FireBean - 9/4/12 at 4:05pm
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