Post by blueboxer on Dec 11, 2015 0:50:35 GMT -5
For reasons too complicated to explain, the geography of our living area is too complex to allow my wife to see our TV set from the point in the room where she works on her computer. It can't be moved far enough to be in her visual range, and she can't shift quite far enough to see it.
She thinks the solution should be to get the TV set to copy the picture to her. This has complications.
The TV is an older flat-screen model with no output ports other than RCA jacks for external speakers. It gets input from a satellite dish though an old Motorola set-top box and cable. She gets her computer input over a home hotspot wi-fi router hardwired to a DSL modem. I suspect my solution is going to involve the set-top box, router, and maybe a few lengths of cable.
Can anyone offer any clues or advice on this? If I need to upgrade the TV, that's OK; if I need to upgrade the set-top box (to what)? that's fine, as is a relay or a few lengths of HDMI or similar cable. If it takes some external hardware gadget she has a Dell Vostro laptop. Suggestions, anyone?
I've read stuff that suggests this trick is simple, standard and even common. But it doesn't tell how to pull it off, in what I've found. But my wife would be very pleased, and since she's chosen to keep me around for sixty years now I'd like to encourage her to do it a little longer. Help,anyone, please?
She thinks the solution should be to get the TV set to copy the picture to her. This has complications.
The TV is an older flat-screen model with no output ports other than RCA jacks for external speakers. It gets input from a satellite dish though an old Motorola set-top box and cable. She gets her computer input over a home hotspot wi-fi router hardwired to a DSL modem. I suspect my solution is going to involve the set-top box, router, and maybe a few lengths of cable.
Can anyone offer any clues or advice on this? If I need to upgrade the TV, that's OK; if I need to upgrade the set-top box (to what)? that's fine, as is a relay or a few lengths of HDMI or similar cable. If it takes some external hardware gadget she has a Dell Vostro laptop. Suggestions, anyone?
I've read stuff that suggests this trick is simple, standard and even common. But it doesn't tell how to pull it off, in what I've found. But my wife would be very pleased, and since she's chosen to keep me around for sixty years now I'd like to encourage her to do it a little longer. Help,anyone, please?
