Connect To Another Computer On Network

Connect To Another Computer On Network

Connect To Another Computer On Network

Watching video, and previewing pictures on a larger television screen can be so much better than watching the same media on the relatively small screen of a laptop. Perhaps more people would use their larger TV screens to watch media from their laptops if only they knew how.

Using DLNA

There are quite a few options for interconnecting PCs, TVs, audio equipment and even mobile phones. One technology that allow consumer devices to be easily connected and share music, videos and pictures over a wireless network is the DLNA standard. For example, If you have a DLNA certified laptop and TV you could walk into the room and use the laptop to browse the network for, and seamlessly connect to the TV. Once the two devices find each other on the network, videos and pictures from the laptop can be shown on the TV wirelessly.

The standard allows works whether you are playing music on a audio system from a DLNA certified phone or watching video on a TV from a DLNA certified Network Attached Storage device. While the DLNA standard allow consumers to share multimedia among devices without going through the hassle of configuring the separate components, the standard does require that all the components are DLNA-compatible.