Home Wireless: The Clutter Problem

Series Summary

The wireless revolution has opened up a world of possibilities for communication, education and entertainment. Advances in wireless technology are making the days of fuzzy images and unclear sound a thing of the past. As prices become more and more reasonable, wireless systems in the home are becoming more and more common.

In this free electronics video series, you will learn how to use wireless technology to stream video throughout your home. With a few pieces of equipment you can reduce or eliminate the clutter from multiple components and that rats’ nest of wires. Find out about wireless routers and media extenders. Discover the other equipment you will need to use with your TV and PC. Get tips on securing your home wireless network and troubleshooting some common problems with wireless transmission.

Video Transcript

"Hi. My Name is David Bradshaw. We're going to talk a little bit more about streaming wireless video around the home. We're going to talk about the problem we're trying to solve, which is really right here. So, most people have a TV, DVD Player and some kind of other box in there home, which is being used to deploy or take TV into the house. Whether it's Cable or Satellite or so on. What you see here is really a mass of cables coming out of the back of both the satellite box, the DVD player, and whatever else you might have here in the TV. So the problem we're trying to solve here is that people like to have TVs around the house. Their easy to install plasma, LCD, or what have you, but they don't really want to have those other boxes attached to that TV. So, we're going to talk about how we're going to talk about how we're going to get rid of all these cables and get rid of having to have all these other boxes in these different rooms around the house. One example would be, for example, this DVD player. People need a DVD player in order to play their movies, but if you had all of those movies stored on one device in the home on some kind of a central server and your able to deploy those movies wirelessly around the home to watch on any TV in the house you like. The other situation we have here, is the satellite TV box. In order to have TV in your room you need one of these boxes. What I'm going to propose is a system that allows you to do away with having a box like this in every room and instead have a media center extender that we will talk more about in a moment."