Essentially I want to be able to just switch inputs on my TV and have whatever content is on my Windows laptop to be shown on the TV. Bonus points if it can also stream content from a shared folder on the network.

3/13/2013 2:24:58 PM

http://airparrot.com/ ?

3/13/2013 2:44:39 PM

You mean Air Play rather than Apple TVs, right?

3/13/2013 3:12:39 PM

Assuming you are loking for wireless mirroring,and don't mind having to plug a receiver into your laptop, you could also use a wireless HDMI transmitter. AirParrot is nowhere as smooth for me as AirPlay on the same hardware..

3/13/2013 3:19:37 PM

http://www.ipevo.com/prods/wireless_presentation_system

3/13/2013 3:24:38 PM

Quote :

"You mean Air Play rather than Apple TVs, right?"

Yes. When I saw it in action the Apple user described it as Apple TV

3/13/2013 9:19:55 PM

What exactly are you trying to do? When you say you want your content on tv, are you just talking about movies, music and pictures, or are you trying to do screen sharing/presentation type stuff?

If all you care about is media content, you'd be better off not trying to push it from your PC and instead get one of any number of set top box devices (WDTV, Roku, Boxee, etc) that will pulled shared media files to your TV.

If you want to do the screen sharing thing, it's not quite as simple, because the reason Air Play works is because all Apple hardware built in the last two years automatically converts what's being displayed to the screen into a h.264 stream right there in the GPU, so that's what's being sent to the Apple TV. Similarly spec'd Windows boxes won't get nearly as good picture quality because the hardware isn't set up to do that (unless they have built in WiDi, or some other hardware enabled feature which is basically the same thing, but non-Apple branded) As mentioned above, solutions like airparrot that only work in software aren't really going to give you a very great picture.

3/13/2013 11:01:45 PM

do you have an xbox? in Win8 you can select "Play to Xbox 360"

3/13/2013 11:04:45 PM

wireless keyboard and mouse. connect laptop to stereo and tv with wires perhaps



[Edited on March 15, 2013 at 11:33 AM. Reason : a]

3/15/2013 11:28:50 AM

miracast, dawg

3/15/2013 1:56:07 PM