How to Guide - Connecting Your Laptop to Hdtv Or Tv

I'm writing this guide after being asked a few times on ways to connect a laptop to a Tv. People want to accomplish this for some reasons. First, it's great for presentations at work, school, or home. It's also favorable for viewing pictures and videos to friends, watching Dvds, and it is now even being used for viewing Blu-ray and other high definition article on the Hdtv.

First, we want to make sure you're getting the most out of your laptop when it comes to displaying it on the Tv.

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• If you have an Hdtv with Hdmi inputs, check if your laptop has an Hdmi output. If it does, you're in luck! Your Hdtv can display from your laptop in Hd resolutions. All you need is an Hdmi cable to connect them. If your Hdtvs Hdmi inputs are used up already. An Hdmi switch would be the best clarification for you. We contribute switches that can connect up to 5 separate Hdmi sources to 1 Hdmi input.
• If you don't have an Hdmi production on the laptop, check if it has a Dvi output. Some Asus, and Dell laptops have them. If you do, you can connect your laptop to an Hdtv with an Hdmi to Dvi cable. They are both digital cables so this will produce the same Hd resolutions as a appropriate Hdmi cable.
• If your laptop doesn't have Hdmi or Dvi out, it should have a Vga output. Connecting with Vga is capable of high resolutions. However, separate Tvs hold separate resolutions with Vga. You must check the maximum resolution your Tv model supports with Vga.
• Pretty much all laptops come with an S-Video output. It's not going to be as great of a picture, but it will assuredly do the job with an S-Video cable.

After you have connected your chosen cable, boot up your laptop and see if it has detected your Tv. If not, you have to go into your display properties and look for the settings that will enable your Tv to display from your laptop. Where to find the setting will vary depending on your graphics card (just look around). If you are having trouble getting your Tv to show a picture, make sure you have updated the display drivers on your laptop. Now you're probably going to want sound from something other than your laptop speakers. So you can select to production it to your Tv, or blast it from your home theater audio receiver.

• The best way to connect audio to your Tv or receiver is straight through a digital audio cable. Both a digital coaxial cable or Toslink visual audio cable will work great for crisp high potential audio. Just make sure your laptop has whether a digital coaxial or an visual audio output. Some laptops use the headphone jack to duplicate as a digital coaxial (S/Pdif) output. If you use this method, your going to need a 3.5mm to Rca adapter with a digital coaxial cable. If your laptop has none of these outputs and you still assuredly want that high potential sound. Don't worry! You can still get an external (Usb) sound card that has digital coaxial out or visual out. I recommend the Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 Sb1090 with Toslink visual audio out.
• Another way, which won't want any add-ons, is to use the headphone (3.5mm) jack on your laptop to the Rca (red and white) inputs on your Tv or receiver. To do this, all you need is a 3.5mm to 2 Rca adapter with a 2 Rca audio cable.

I know all of these cables can seem confusing to you. If you're having trouble finding out what each cable looks like or find out more about a cable, check out the Cable Guide at CableTrain.com. All of these cables are ready for you on our website as well. I hope you can now successfully connect your laptop to the Tv in the best way possible!

How to Guide - Connecting Your Laptop to Hdtv Or Tv

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Many laptops, and some desktop Windows PC's include a special socket that connects to most TV sets.

If you have S-Video sockets on both devices, buy a cable. A 12-foot long cable sells for under on eBay or Amazon.com. The cable will cost considerably more if you buy it at a local store ( to $50+).

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The S-Video socket is round, has two pins on the left side, two pins on the right side, and keyways at the top and bottom. If you'd like to see a photo, go to images.google.com and search for s-video.

If you have a desktop PC, inspect the cards and sockets on the PC (front and back). If your desktop PC has a powerful video card, it's more likely to have what you need.

Plug the cable into both devices. Turn on the TV and switch it to the Video Input that matches the socket (a label near the socket tells you which Input).

You must reboot the PC. Windows "finds" the TV during Windows launch. The TV may flicker a few times. You cannot usually add a TV or second monitor while Windows is running.

Next, we'll configure the monitors so Windows has a Desktop that's double the width of your current Desktop.

Right-click on a blank area of your Windows Desktop and you'll get a menu. Click on Properties (or Personalize), then click the (Display) Settings tab.

Click on the icon of Monitor No. 2 and you should get a message asking if you wish to Enable it. Click Yes.

Change the resolution on both monitors to 800 x 600. You can try higher resolutions, but they may not work.

Enable the check box named "Extend my Windows Desktop to This Monitor." Click Apply or OK.

If everything is in place, you should see your ordinary Desktop and icons on your laptop monitor, and a copy of your Desktop background without any icons on the TV set. Your Windows Desktop now extends across both monitors. Test by moving your mouse pointer to the TV set.

Simpler video cards don't have the resources to carry colors, so the second monitor may be Black & White. Try another PC, or settle for B&W, or you can try choosing fewer Colors.

If the TV set is to the left of your laptop, click and drag the #2 monitor icon so it's to the left of the #1 icon, just to avoid confusion.

Launch your internet browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox or Chrome) and go to the Netflix (or other) website. Choose the movie you'll Play online. Make sure your browser is not "full-screen" -- click the little box/double-box at the top right corner to make your browser slightly smaller than full-screen. Now you can click and drag the top of the browser to one side and drop it on the TV set. Click the box/double-box and it will expand to full-screen on the TV.

Click "Full Screen" in the bottom right corner of the Netflix player to get rid of the menus and backgrounds. Click the center of the screen to begin Play. Move the mouse to the laptop Desktop to make the controls disappear. If you have nice speakers, connect them through the headphone jack of your laptop to obtain richer audio. You may also listen through headphones, or a double-headphone jack (Radio Shack, ).

Enjoy your movie.

If the Screen Saver pops up, right-click on a blank area of the laptop desktop, click Properties, and set the screen saver to 200 minutes. Remember to change it back when you're done.

To Pause your movie, point the mouse to the TV set. You'll get a Play/Pause button on the bottom left corner, and a scroll bar that shows the film's progress.

To drag the browser back to the laptop monitor, you'll have to click the box/double-box to make it less than full screen. You can also launch another instance of your browser so you'll have one on each Desktop/monitor.

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