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Listen to audio from TV on multiple computers

by t113598 Oct 2, 2008 6:12AM PDT

Howdy -

I'm in an office of about 50 users on XP machines. I want all the users to be able to listen to audio from a TV on their computers. I have cable coming into the office and we have a couple of flat screen monitors running news shows. I have a variety of audio-outs on the monitors.

We have a handful of wireless speakers but PDAs / Blackberries cause irritating interference that the users aren't willing to tolerate.

I'm guessing I need some sort of device to pump the video onto the network. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,

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Check out Slingbox. John

by jcrobso Oct 2, 2008 7:13AM PDT

http://www.slingmedia.com/

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Slingbox

by t113598 Oct 3, 2008 3:00AM PDT

Slingbox is one box per user. I called them and they helpfully offered to sell me 50 slingboxes!

jw

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You are kidding?

by ahtoi Oct 3, 2008 4:16AM PDT

I thought the slingshot is the transmitter and if one has a receiver then one can hear/see what's coming out of the slingshot (in this case, it might be a wireless router/ethernet card. I could be wrong here though. In my way of thinking I think you might have more of a copy right problem than anything else (Just thinking out loud).

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Copy Right

by t113598 Oct 3, 2008 6:14AM PDT

Could be a copy right issue but I doubt it. Instead of listening out of the TV speaker we want to be listening out of PC speakers or headphones. Maybe your right and that's why I can't find a device to do what I want.

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