How do I play my MTS (AVCHD) files on my TV?

I have read alot bout media players like Roku and WDTVbut it appears that almost every piece of hardware out there does not support .MTS (AVCHD) files. Which is insane to think Canon sells HD camcorders that saves in a format that isn't supported anywhere...Maybe they should make their own Smart TV or media player...of course that's beside the point.
Anyway, from my cursory research, it seems there are only a few options:
1---Convert my .MTS files to some file that's readable on a media player or Smart TV
2---Connect my laptop to my TV with VGA cable or WiDi
3---Use the PLEX channel on Roku
So far PLEX seems like the easiest solution, but I wanted to get the forum's opinion. My main concern is that converting/transcoding video into new formats will lose HD quality. Similarly, I'm concerned that streaming my videos on TV through WiDi does not provide the same HD experience. With that being said, would PLEX be any better that those other options?
More concise: How do I play my home movies on my TV retaining the highest HD quality?

Well ,first you should know , if you compress your video, no matter what format you convert to , it will defenitely has the quality loss, even you will not notice by your eyes. But you can improve it manually. During your conversion , (whatever converter app you use), it may have the option to let you imporve the Bitrate and Frame rate. That two will help you improve the quality. But try to keep the balance between those two or you will get some blurred video.

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b Summary of problem:
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b Summary:
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*Analysis of video in Sony's PMB is well worth doing!
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Anyway, in my first post you'll have read me raving about the K-Lite Codec Pack but sadly I've had to uninstall it because it kept on causing PMB to crash. PMB runs much smoother and quicker WITHOUT that codec pack. Something about it clashed with PMB. The once agile PMB became sluggish and unresponsive.
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Van: A.T. Romano [email protected]
Verzonden: donderdag 7 november 2013 15:41
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Onderwerp: Unable to load MTS (AVCHD) file
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Name der fehlerhaften Anwendung: PhotoshopElementsOrganizer.exe, Version: 11.0.0.0, Zeitstempel: 0x505e9f67
Name des fehlerhaften Moduls: msvcrt.dll, Version: 7.0.9600.16384, Zeitstempel: 0x52158ff5
Ausnahmecode: 0xc0000005
Fehleroffset: 0x00009919
ID des fehlerhaften Prozesses: 0x13c8
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Berichtskennung: b8817e29-2269-11e4-bf2d-10bf487f7b28
Vollständiger Name des fehlerhaften Pakets:
Anwendungs-ID, die relativ zum fehlerhaften Paket ist:
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Have also disabled hyperthreading in the BIOS.
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By means of the task manager, I analyzed the wait chain of the process PhotoshopElementsOrganizer.exe:
Every time the fault occurs, it is caused by a deadlock in the wait chain.
For example:
PhotoshopElementsOrganizer.exe (PID:6440) Thread: 6540
-- PhotoshopElementsOrganizer.exe (PID:6440) Thread: 5932
---- PhotoshopElementsOrganizer.exe (PID:6440) Thread: 6540
PhotoshopElementsOrganizer.exe (PID:6440) Thread: 5932
-- PhotoshopElementsOrganizer.exe (PID:6440) Thread: 6540
---- PhotoshopElementsOrganizer.exe (PID:6440) Thread: 5932
Regards
Oliver
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Provider
[ Name]
Application Error
EventID
1000
[ Qualifiers]
0
Level
2
Task
100
Keywords
0x80000000000000
TimeCreated
[ SystemTime]
2014-08-31T19:36:04.000000000Z
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244366
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Application
Computer
Ordi-Denis
Security
EventData
PhotoshopElementsOrganizer.exe
11.0.0.0
503fdd1d
MSACM32.dll
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0b097e53-3146-11e4-a14e-bcaec51a14f7
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