Home Wireless: Equipment Needed

Video Transcript

"Hi. My Name's David Bradshaw. I'm talking about distributing video content wirelessly around your house. Specifically about TV content. I'm in my front room. I'm going to demonstrate what equipment I have here. You can see we have a regular TV. This one happens to be an LCD TV. The type really doesn't matter. I also have here a PC. This is a regular computer in a slightly different form factor. It can fit below my TV. It doesn't necessarily have to be in the same room as my TV. It just is in this case. It can be in any room in the house. The reason that's the case is because, within this PC there is also a Wi-Fi connection; a wireless connection, which is going to be talking wirelessly to my wireless router downstairs, that I showed you previously. This PC is a Vista based PC. It can be XP. It doesn't really matter. The key thing is that it runs Media Center, which is a type of Microsoft software that allows you to view content here on your PC. So, in this situation, you've got a typical PC-monitor type connection here; is what you have. This PC is running Vista. It's running Media Center and we'll be able to take the content from this PC; whether it be video, TV, photos, or music and distribute that content wirelessly around the home. "