You can view Meedio Essentials with your computer's monitor or even a laptop screen, but for a real home theater experience you can display Meedio Essentials on your TV. There are several ways that you can connect your PC to your TV:
Direct wired
: You may connect the output of your PC's video card to the input of your TV. The quality of the signal displayed on your TV will depend on the quality of your video card and the type of connection that you use. In general, the following connection types are possible, listed in order of best to worst picture quality. You should choose the highest quality connector that both your video card and your TV share in common:
DVI & HDMI: DVI (Digital Visual Interface) is a high-bandwidth digital connector capable of delivering high definition content. DVI-D transmits only digital information while DVI-I also supports analog connections. DVI is compliant with HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) which is an encryption standard used to protect high definition content from being digitally copied. HDMI stands for High Definition Multimedia Interface and is similar to DVI but also supports digital audio.
Component Video is an analog connection that uses three separate cables to carry luminance, synch, and color information. Component video can transmit high definition content but does not support HDCP. If your display has component video inputs then you can use a "component video transcoder" such as this VGA to TV Converter
or this Wireless Converter
.
VGA is commonly used to connect PCs to computer monitors but some TVs also support this connection.
S-video cannot display high definition content but offers an improved picture quality over composite video by separating the luminance and chrominance signals.
Composite video provides the lowest quality and combines the luminance and chrominance information into one signal.
Wireless
: Wireless connections can in theory carry many of the same signal types as described above but transmit the signals over a Radio Frequency signal instead of through cables. Most wireless video transmitters send composite video information although newer products such as the Belkin PureAV RemoteTV transmits component video quality signals. Many wireless transmitters also carry remote control signals.
Client PCs: By connecting additional PCs to your wired or wireless network you can access your media in multiple rooms. Small, low-cost devices such as Mini-ITX systems can be connected directly to your home network and TV and can each run independent copies of Meedio.
Media Extenders: Media extenders are basically specialized client devices that are only used to access a digital media server. Meedio has announced support for the DivX Connected Program but has not yet announced when DivX Connected devices will be able to display content from Meedio applications.
