Sony BRAVIA network streaming

Question

Hello people,
I am fairly new to the apple community and i am facing a problem.
its been a whole week since i am trying to figure out how to stream video on my new bravia over the network. I ve even replaced my router last night.
Equipment:
Mac Pro - Snow Leopard 10.6.5
New router - Apple Airport Extreme Base Station
SONY Bravia KDL40EX710 (http://www.sony.lv/product/t32-ex-series/kdl-40ex710)
I ve tried the following servers:
Twonky
MediaLink
Eyeconnect
and many more that cant recall right now.
I feel that i am doing something wrong.
P.S.: Booted on Windows 7, detected sony, enabled streaming and TADA.. all good. But quality on some videos is altered badly.
Any ideas on how to get it working on Snow Leopard ?
Thanks,
George

Answer 1

Just some comments:
There's got to be more sophistication to this idea than setting up another user-level program on an iMac (or other computing device) requiring configuration effort and running around to control what and when it can stream via DLNA/UPnP or another network protocol to a TV.
I wish the industry would be a little bit more progressive and in a sense I wouldn't be surprised to learn one day that Apple and cohorts have already considered a solution that not only avoids clutter around a TV (with yet another box and cables to cast audio/video) but that also avoids software mess and configuration effort on computing devices that provide the stream to the TV.
Concepts such as "VGA to IP" or "desktop to IP", or more sophisticated ideas such as PCoIP will reveal that what I'm referring to isn't new. For example, why not have a laptop have its (or another computing device's) desktop and audio (broad/multi) cast to IP (rather than to the omnipresent VGA interface) in such a way that the TV can render the contents of desktop and reproduce the sounds generated by the laptop. The desktop can be any portion of the screen or vice versa and the stream can be encoded in MPEG2 or another format that the TV understands or it may not be encoded at all. Wired and many wireless home networks can handle clear/unencoded 1080p streams. All of this except the proper communication is supported by state of the art TVs and computing devices.
The laptop example illustrates that firstly no VGA, DVI or HDMI cable is required to connect the laptop (or any other suitable computing device for that matter) to the TV. Secondly, the software that is required on the computing device for the noted purpose requires a lot less user configuration than Twonky (no offence) and its friends. Wouldn't that be nice?
Considering the above, thinking of the (laptop's) keyboard as the remote control opens up another world of user-friendly solutions. You just got to separate and/or divide components of traditional monolithic computer systems and turn the pieces into new devices. Leaving the receiving part of a graphics interface card in the computing device but moving the rendering engine into a TV/monitor may work quite well. Essentially its all an interactive movie bringing a lot of data to the user and returning comparatively little information from user input back to the computing device.
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