Cheapest way to stream PC games to TV? Via an Xbox 1?

[Deleted member 68110]

I've got a little Gigabyte Brix attached to the TV and tried to stream games from my desktop to the TV using it. It was a fairly unpleasant experience and the picture quality is terrible.

It might be that I need to do some tweaking - change the res (my PC is 1440, and our TV is just HD), and I think V-sync needs to be off, so I'll have a p;lay around.

That said, it seems like it might be worth trying a different machine hooked up to the TV.

I was looking around for small cheap secondhand PC builds, but then I noticed that the Xbox One is supposed to have the functionality to do it.

These seem cheap to pick up - cheaper than PCs anyway - and would come with the extra functionality Xbox 1's have.

So does anyone do this? Or does anyone have any better ideas?

Thanks for any thoughts.

 

[MissChief]

Nvidia shield or the valve thingy that I forget.

How close is the TV to the PC? Longer HDMI lead would work aloing with wireless mouse and keyboard if they're not too far away.

 

[Deleted member 68110]

Nvidia shield or the valve thingy that I forget.

How close is the TV to the PC? Longer HDMI lead would work aloing with wireless mouse and keyboard if they're not too far away.

I've got a Steam Link which worked fine when I used to use it. I dug it out the other week, and it loaded fine, then said it had to update, and promptly bricked itself.

Unfortunately the TV is a bit too far away from the PC for your other suggestion.

A Shield is a good idea - but not much difference in price to an xbox, which seems to have more other functionality.