hey guys,

this is my situation:

I have a dedicated home theater room, and a large outdoor section.

In my theater room im running:

projector with HDMI
YAMAHA RX-v1800 receiver
Bose rear speakers and centre channel
-undecided on front speakers yet
-undecided on subwoofer yet

In my outdoor entertainment iv so far only put in a LCD tv.

Now what i want to do is, be able to play movies & audio thru my desktop computer which is in another room on the other side of the house, thru the projector in my home theater.

I also would like to do this thru the LCD tv outside. (im guessing i might need out-door speakers)

Whats the best way to go about this? Are there any modules that i can buy that give me these things, the reveiver has A/B switching for rooms, but i dont have room thru the hole in the wall to run anymore wires.

I have seen the new playsation 3 connect wirelessly to a desktop, it also plays blueray & games - would this be a better option to go with?
what about outside in that case?


thanks for anyhelp

for the home theater the PS3 is great for streaming music from your PC. Just use tversity and you should be all set. For outdoors I am not sure of the easiest method. I know that lynksys makes a wireless device to stream music form the PC it is like a boom box but I am sure there are better oprions.

what is tversity?

also the PS3 streams music and video's from the desktop :)

TVersity is a media server that runs on the PC. You can use it to stream movies, music, photos to the PS3.

http://www.tversity.com/home its free

I'd go media center pc with some TV tuner cards, and get 2 xbox 360's to run as media center extenders so that you can get TV channels through it as well as stream music and movies. That is something that the PS3 can unfortunately not do. Although if it is only movies and music you want then the PS3 would work.

And don't forget, wireless HDMI (http://www.gefen.com/kvm/product.jsp?prod_id=4318) is supposed to be coming (http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9924550-7.html)...