Sesh wants to watch YouTube videos and web
photos on his large TV screen and is wondering
if there’s an easy way to connect the laptop
computer to the TV.

Well, there are several ways to connect your
computer to a Television depending on what
ports are available on your PC and your TV (we
used an HP Windows computer and a Sony
Bravia HDTV for this example).

»How to Connect Laptop to TV – Step by Step

Step 1: Most computers have an S-Video port
that can be connected to the S-Video input of
your TV screen using a very cheap S-Video cable
(this cable is round with 4 or 7 pins). If you
have an older monitor, you can use the 15-pin
VGA cable to connect the computer to the TV
and it will offer better picture quality than the
S-Video cable.
The newer HDTVs and laptop computers have
DVI ports so a DVI Male to Male Cable or DVI to
HDMI Adapter Cable can be used to hook the
computer display and the TV. The DVI to HDMI
cable can be used when your HDTV doesn’t have
an DVI port but does have an HDMI port.
Connect the Audio RCA Cable for Sound

Step 2: Now that you have connected the
computer to the TV using a physical cable, you
need another cable to transmit the sound as all
the above cables only transmit the video but not
the audio part.
You need a 3.5mm Mini Plug to RCA Cable
Stereo to connect the audio line out from a
notebook to your TV. The red cable connector
goes into the red socket of your TV, black
connector into the black socket while the black
connector goes into the 3.5mm headphone jack
of your computer.

Step 3: Open the “display settings” on your
Windows computer and activate the output to
the TV screen. You can either mirror content of
your computer on the TV or extend the display
just like a dual monitor screen.

If you are using Windows 7, press the keyboard
shortcut Windows + P to quickly access the
display settings or search for “Connect to
External Display” in the Windows Run box.

Step 4: Pick up your TV remote and switch to
“External Inputs” from the menu. You will need
to change the default “Video 1″ to a different
selection which may be “HDMI 1″ or “Video 2″
depending on how you have made the
connection.

Important: Make sure that you connect the
physical cable to the TV before turning on the
computer as sometimes it may fail to recognize
external display. You may also need to change
the screen resolution of your TV using the
Display settings in your Control Panel else the
picture may sometimes appear distorted.


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