Mon Jun 04, 2012 12:19 am
Samsung series 7 wireless connection to PC
I might not be in possession of sufficient facts here, as I'm trying to help my (even less tech savvy) cousin to get her Samsung up and running!
My own TV is a Sony Bravia KDL-40NX803, and is my only experience of "Smart TV's".
It just "worked" as soon as it was plugged in, found my home network and established a connection with both router and my PC.
......Great, except for its pernicketiness concerning the file types, particularly video, that it would display.
Thank God I was told about Serviio, and the help I've since received here to "fine tune it"!
Her Samsung has found the router and can access the internet without a problem, but she has been unable to find any connection to her PC in order to access her personal files.
I first posted for help on the Smart TV's section of "Digital Spy", but the consensus there seems to be that the Samsung requires a third party DLNA server to be installed on the PC in order for it to communicate with the TV.
I find it difficult to believe that this Is this correct, when my Sony TV required no external help "finding" my PC....which it labeled "Windows Media Player" presumably this is the software responsible for streaming from a Windows PC.
I'm not sure which OS my cousin is using, most likely Windows 7, but surely this should communicate with her TV at least as well as my own Vista PC does with mine, without the immediate need for her to complicate the issue with additional software.
Hope I've given sufficient detail for someone to be able to offer some help.
My own TV is a Sony Bravia KDL-40NX803, and is my only experience of "Smart TV's".
It just "worked" as soon as it was plugged in, found my home network and established a connection with both router and my PC.
......Great, except for its pernicketiness concerning the file types, particularly video, that it would display.
Thank God I was told about Serviio, and the help I've since received here to "fine tune it"!
Her Samsung has found the router and can access the internet without a problem, but she has been unable to find any connection to her PC in order to access her personal files.
I first posted for help on the Smart TV's section of "Digital Spy", but the consensus there seems to be that the Samsung requires a third party DLNA server to be installed on the PC in order for it to communicate with the TV.
I find it difficult to believe that this Is this correct, when my Sony TV required no external help "finding" my PC....which it labeled "Windows Media Player" presumably this is the software responsible for streaming from a Windows PC.
I'm not sure which OS my cousin is using, most likely Windows 7, but surely this should communicate with her TV at least as well as my own Vista PC does with mine, without the immediate need for her to complicate the issue with additional software.
Hope I've given sufficient detail for someone to be able to offer some help.
