So this is my first post on this website, but I have a pretty elaborate question that would help me out a ton if there was a decent answer.
Some background on what I have to work with at this point; I have a desktop, laptop, 2 smart TVs and 2 other LCD TVs, a smart bluray player, xbox 360, and a wireless router. So here's my question...
What I'm looking to do is be able to watch my movies (most of which are in MP4) from any of my televisions. Or at least the 2 main ones.
What I've been doing is keeping the movies on my laptop and connecting them with HDMI to whatever TV I want to watch the movie on. What I'd like to be able to do is have the movies on my Desktop and share them with my other TVs through the network. I recently learned you could open a sharing folder with the XBOX 360 and play the movies using that, which works well unless you're using an MP4 which XBOX doesn't read.
So, I'm looking to get a new tablet, netbook, or notebook. And possibly a wireless Desktop to TV connector, if that's what I'll need. But given the hardware available to me, is there any way to have these devices all share my movies through my router so I don't have to keep moving my laptop?
Even if it's something I'd have to buy, I'm very interested in knowing how it would be possibly because this is very high on my to do list! Thank you so much for your help!
Some background on what I have to work with at this point; I have a desktop, laptop, 2 smart TVs and 2 other LCD TVs, a smart bluray player, xbox 360, and a wireless router. So here's my question...
What I'm looking to do is be able to watch my movies (most of which are in MP4) from any of my televisions. Or at least the 2 main ones.
What I've been doing is keeping the movies on my laptop and connecting them with HDMI to whatever TV I want to watch the movie on. What I'd like to be able to do is have the movies on my Desktop and share them with my other TVs through the network. I recently learned you could open a sharing folder with the XBOX 360 and play the movies using that, which works well unless you're using an MP4 which XBOX doesn't read.
So, I'm looking to get a new tablet, netbook, or notebook. And possibly a wireless Desktop to TV connector, if that's what I'll need. But given the hardware available to me, is there any way to have these devices all share my movies through my router so I don't have to keep moving my laptop?
Even if it's something I'd have to buy, I'm very interested in knowing how it would be possibly because this is very high on my to do list! Thank you so much for your help!