video and input question

[Danoff]

Does anyone out there know of a way to send video wirelessly? Or is there a really small wire that will support video data?

I'd like to be able to have my computer in a different room as the monitor.

 

[emad]

errr...there's no way to do this that I can think of. I remember just a few months ago, Sony released a BlueTooth monitor... But that wouldn't have anywhere near half the range you're looking for. Even if it did, it costs a few thousand dollars and is in Japan only .

Does your monitor have an S-Video port on it? You could just use the S-video port from your gfx card and plug it into the monitor if you did. Not sure how the resolution with that would be though.

 

[Pako]

Does anyone out there know of a way to send video wirelessly? Or is there a really small wire that will support video data?

I'd like to be able to have my computer in a different room as the monitor.

I have looked into this as well. The options arn't too cheap, but less than a couple hundred dollars. You can get VGA certified cabling as long as you might want. Often times people need long VGA cables to run from their video card to a projector system up to 100 feet away. You can try a heavy duty cable first, and if your not getting a clean signal, you can put a signal booster inline to increase the signal to the monitor. These wires, however, are just as thick as your standard monitor cable. Smaller than romex, but certainly larger than CAT5.

As emad has suggested, you could also look into other video format options such as S-Video, Composit, Component (ATI makes a good DVI or VGA to Component adapter....I have a extra one if you want to buy if off of me), or DVI. What kind of graphics card are you using?

 

[Danoff]

It has DVI and VGA output. Sounds like my options kinda suck, it was worth a shot.

I know that if you're using Unix over a local area network, you can set up terminals that interact with a main server. You can have multiple people logged on to the server from these terminals without having to have a CPU and all that set up.

How do they do that? What hardware do you still need (other than monitor keyboard and mouse) at the terminal? Is there a way to do that with windows?

 

[Pako]

At work we use "dummy" terminals that you are describing over a Unix Inventory/Point of Sale system. This is very basic in it's data transfer. I would assume that in a Windows environment, the desktop alone would be too much for a dummy terminal. I haven't see this type of setup for windows based machines. The closest to that type of setup that I have encountered is using a metaframe circuit on a Citrix Server. Basically, your controlling a session on a remote server, just transfering keystrokes back and forth between the client and the server. All processing occurs at the server, you just get screen refreshes. Much like how PC Anyware works, but much much better. This still requires minimum 486x processor with Mobo, graphics card, ect....

How far do you have to go?

 

[Danoff]

I don't really have to go anywhere. I'm just finding myself wanting to have a really nice computer in the living room for television and dvd stuff (and WMHD programming) and also wanting a nice computer at my desk. So I figure if I can get one nice computer and share it between them that would be better, but it's not necessary.

I have to go about 20 feet or so.

 

[Pako]

That's exactly what I'm doing...and WMHD as well as vgames drove me to it. I run the DVI out of the video card to my HD set using a 6 meter moster DVI 400 cable. Works perfectly!

It was a $150 cable, but I got them to throw it in with the purchase of the TV.

 

[Danoff]

How do you control the computer?

 

[Pako]

Using a Bluetooth wireless keyboard/mouse. With the bluetooth, I have about a 35' range before the signal strength is too weak.

It's a logitech product. Standard wireless controllers are too weak, to go this route, it has to be bluetooth.