How to connect your computer or laptop to the television
Many of you will not ever think it can be very convenient to connect your TV to your PC (or laptop). To control their computer from the sofa watching TV is definitely less harmful to the view that being a few centimeters from a monitor.
1.) There are mainly two ways to connect your computer to your TV: With the cable (S-Video, VGA, HDMI) and Wireless (WiDi technology – wireless display). Let’s consider the first option, the most common and immediate. There are different types of cables to connect your PC to TV. The S-Video cable and a VGA cable (monitor cable) are rather outdated and often create compatibility problems with the resolution of the computer, also they carry only video and require a connection with other audio cables. The quality is not always good. Let us focus instead on high-definition cable (HDMI) that delivers both high-definition video and audio. Now all the television for several years have included several attacks HDMI (USB is kind of a bit bigger and you cannot attack us only the PC but also DVD, satellite receiver, etc.). The HDMI cable itself now costs a few dollar ($6 is in department stores, length 2 meters, but there are also longer).
2.) Turn on the TV and set it to the HDMI (usually on remote controls, there is an entry ” source ” or ” source ” or any similar words to let you know to change the input source). Plug the cable into the computer and then into the TV. It is best to follow this order so the computer recognizes the TV as if it were any device. In most cases, you should see the image already in the TV. If this does not happen, you have to go into the control panel of your computer and change the display settings by choosing a duplication of the video or simply changing the monitor output.
3.) The cable connection of course is ideal if the PC is near the TV. If you need not to have additional cables that might make you trip, you can buy a device that uses technology WiDi (Wireless Display). Some new computers are already equipped or you can buy a small device for a few decide to euro. It is important to specify that this type of connection does not need a wireless router. It is a direct wireless connection! So if you have the wireless ADSL router do not worry, you will not need to do this type of connection. Also in this case, audio and video are ” transported ” together, as for the HDMI technology. Obviously, if you want to control your PC from the couch, the ideal is a wireless keyboard and mouse; ) Enjoy!
Note : HDMI is the best in quality audio and video.
