N E T F L I X ?

[Zembonez]

I have a ton of really good spare PC components, so I am building a Media PC to hook up to my home theater out of them... running wirelessly on my network. Since it's already going to be there, connected to the big TV, I was wondering if Netflix produced a decent enough streaming signal that it would not look like crap on a good LCD HDTV? (or will it look like bad 80s video games?)

 

Anybody know?

 

If not... It should be cool hammering away on GM-Trucks.com or Google on a 55 inch screen! WOO HOO!

[GARB55]

Here is some info!

 

Click Here

 

Not sure if any different from a PC?

[VMax2007]

Man, I bet my sig would look sweet on a 55" screen.

[tobias]

I've been doing it for months through our 40" Samsung without issue but I have 12-15MB download speeds here and I am hard-wired. I'd say the quality is about as good as standard def TV, sometimes better. I used to stream it wirelessly and while the quality wasn't quite as nice, it wasn't much worse either. We should see HD streaming from them relatively soon, I hope.

[Zembonez]

I've been doing it for months through our 40" Samsung without issue but I have 12-15MB download speeds here and I am hard-wired. I'd say the quality is about as good as standard def TV, sometimes better. I used to stream it wirelessly and while the quality wasn't quite as nice, it wasn't much worse either. We should see HD streaming from them relatively soon, I hope.

Thanks. That's what I was wondering. I am going to try it wirelessly and see how it goes. I really don't want to have to hard wire to the HT. I like the idea of having all of my video files on a media server / PC. We'll see how well the Netflix signal looks on the LCD.

 

My laptop and Emily's kitchen PC both connect wirelessly at 54.0 Mbps. I hope this is good enough... we'll see.

[takevin]

We have a HD 55" and got the netflix for the 360 friday. Looks sweet and great to have movies steam live!

[Zembonez]

We have a HD 55" and got the netflix for the 360 friday. Looks sweet and great to have movies steam live!

I'll post up some results here in about a week. The only worry I have is whether the wireless connection is going to be fast enough to keep up with the vides. We'll see.

[VMax2007]

I'll post up some results here in about a week. The only worry I have is whether the wireless connection is going to be fast enough to keep up with VMax2007. We'll see.

 

Fixed!

[Zembonez]

I'll post up some results here in about a week. The only worry I have is whether the wireless connection is going to be fast enough to keep up with VMax2007. We'll see.

 

Fixed!

 

WTF?

 

NOTHING is that fast.

[stringtwelve]

Netflix instant queue is a sweet setup. I bought the Roku wireless (or hardwire) netflix player and with my 4-6mbps I get high quality settings though the wireless option pretty much every time I load something up. The movie selection is slowly getting better and they're improving their servers so the quality is moving up. The thing I'm waiting for is all this in HD which the Roku box is already capable of.

[carneyman]

We used to run it from the puter to the tv via HDMI, but they finally got Netflix streaming directly to the Xbox, so its easier to use that. It really all just depends on the internet speed...I'm gonna hafta call the internet folks. We used to be able to run 2 Xboxs and at least 2 wireless computers on the network no prob. Last night when one Xbox got on the other got kicked off...

 

But yeah, good quality. Great HD quality when they have em on there.

[Draenor]

I plan on building a similar setup. Jim, what type of graphics card will you be using.

[ewarz]

I stream Netflix through my PS3 using this software installed on my computer. It comes through my wifi quick and with no lag whatsoever. On my 52" Toshiba LCD and it looks good and is as good as regular tv.

[Nick The Great]

I've never been happy streaming videos wirelessly.

 

I bought a 50ft Component Video cable a year or so ago. I live in an apartment, so everything is real close-like.

 

But in all fairness, I don't use Netflix either.

[Zembonez]

I plan on building a similar setup. Jim, what type of graphics card will you be using.

ASUS EN8600GT SILENT/HTDP/512M GeForce 8600 GT 512MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI-E

 

It isn't a super premium card but quite capable of decent resolution. I have an ASUS board with P4 3.0 Ghz, 4Gig of DDR2 and 2 spare 250Gig WD SATA drives. It should make a good media server / Netflix machine and it's all made of spare parts. I'm just going to run XP pro.