Well, it's kinda educational in the fact that it tells how you can get a similar setup, so I put it here. This was originally posted in PokerNations:
sixandfour wrote...
In my quest to become less of a technology retard this year, I have finally upgraded a lot of my electronics. I finally got myself a laptop early this year, and a month or so ago I picked up a digital camera. But more importantly, as a result of some info I picked up from a friend, I found I can d/l movies for free online and play them on the computer. Well, I also found out that there?s a way you can send the video feed from your computer to a digital TV. So I got a 46? LCD TV for the bedroom, and the components to put the computer up on the TV. So now, I never have to rent a movie again; just find it online and d/l it to my Itunes or Realplayer.
But this has another application that will be of particular interest to you guys. Not only can you play movies or TV off your computer to the TV, in fact you can put your desktop and whatever you?re doing on the computer up there as well. Which means you can play poker on a big screen TV instead of the computer.
The small screen at the left is the laptop.
That's all well and good, but you're still tied to the computer, right? Well, if you have a wireless mouse you can play poker without being anywhere near the computer, and with a wireless keyboard you can do everything else. So here's my new poker "workstation"; Note the space I have for accessories.
Now, here's the kick, folks: Cool as this is, it's not at all expensive if you have the components already. If you have a HDTV with a VGA or HDMI jack, you can get the cords or a wireless unit to put the computer on the TV for under 100 bucks. Mine is done with nothing but a VGA cable and an audio cable that cost a total of $35. You can also do it with one cord with an HDMI cable or get a wireless unit that connects to the TV and you won't even need to plug the computer in.
Maybe I should actually start playing online for real one of these days...
