Streaming your movies to TV via Laptop To Increase Your Viewing Satisfaction
Watching video clips, amateur movies, digital pictures, and other miscellaneous videos off your computer on your widescreen television, is no longer a dream, but a reality. If you have a subscription to such providers as Netflix and would like to view your movies on your new flatscreen TV, you now have that choice, without having to get an IPTV device such as the Google TV player.
Hooking up your PC or laptop with your television is a pretty straightforward process. Check out the training video below for a step by step explanation that will allow for online movie streaming.
Your Wired Connection
To start with, you’ll need to check the back of your TV set as well as your PC outputs as a way to see which connection cables will work with your setup. The majority of the latest HDTV’s and laptops have outs for HDMI cables. Also, more recent TVs have the option for DVI cable hookups too. Less recent laptops and PCs make use of VGA cables, so in the case you have one, make sure your TV set has the right connections for this. When your laptop and your television lack the same input and output connections, then picking up an adapter is necessary to make it work. It is simple to locate these adapters on Amazon or Ebay at an extremely low price. Furthermore, if you have a standard definition TV set, it's likely that you’ll have to connect through an S-video cable. With that being said, the majority of older and newer laptops contain outputs for S-video
Shut Down Your Computer
You might find that you link everything up, but the TV input just isn't recognized by your PC or laptop. In such cases, make sure that your laptop or computer is powered down before plugging your cable into the TV. After this is done, proceed to turn on your laptop and let it recognize your TV set as an 'external display'.
Television Source Selection
In the case you haven't selected the right source to display on the TV you are not about to view your laptop or computer display with it - be sure you have chosen the appropriate input source (e.g. auxiliary or HDMI) as required. Generally this will depend upon the type of cable you are using to hook up the two devices. If you wish to adjust picture quality, that can be done through either making use of the PC display settings or TV display settings. I'd personally recommend going with the PC settings, so as to not interfere with your general program viewing on your TV, at a later time.
Sit Back and Enjoy a Movie
Now everything is set up properly, you can sign in to whatever video service you end up picking and luxuriate in this media on your perfectly set up TV set. Wanting to showcase a few pics, look at your Facebook account, or view a work-related video presentation on the much bigger display, or stream online movies? The choices are almost endless.
Linking your PC to your television through cables is going to be your cheapest option, however not overly practical, there's also options and devices that let you view your laptop or computer screen on the television wirelessly. Having said that, you’ll obviously have to acquire additional equipment that'll likely cost you a good $100 dollars. To see these alternatives, take a look at our write-up on top video streaming players.
Resources:
internet streaming
Watching video clips, amateur movies, digital pictures, and other miscellaneous videos off your computer on your widescreen television, is no longer a dream, but a reality. If you have a subscription to such providers as Netflix and would like to view your movies on your new flatscreen TV, you now have that choice, without having to get an IPTV device such as the Google TV player.
Hooking up your PC or laptop with your television is a pretty straightforward process. Check out the training video below for a step by step explanation that will allow for online movie streaming.
Your Wired Connection
To start with, you’ll need to check the back of your TV set as well as your PC outputs as a way to see which connection cables will work with your setup. The majority of the latest HDTV’s and laptops have outs for HDMI cables. Also, more recent TVs have the option for DVI cable hookups too. Less recent laptops and PCs make use of VGA cables, so in the case you have one, make sure your TV set has the right connections for this. When your laptop and your television lack the same input and output connections, then picking up an adapter is necessary to make it work. It is simple to locate these adapters on Amazon or Ebay at an extremely low price. Furthermore, if you have a standard definition TV set, it's likely that you’ll have to connect through an S-video cable. With that being said, the majority of older and newer laptops contain outputs for S-video
Shut Down Your Computer
You might find that you link everything up, but the TV input just isn't recognized by your PC or laptop. In such cases, make sure that your laptop or computer is powered down before plugging your cable into the TV. After this is done, proceed to turn on your laptop and let it recognize your TV set as an 'external display'.
Television Source Selection
In the case you haven't selected the right source to display on the TV you are not about to view your laptop or computer display with it - be sure you have chosen the appropriate input source (e.g. auxiliary or HDMI) as required. Generally this will depend upon the type of cable you are using to hook up the two devices. If you wish to adjust picture quality, that can be done through either making use of the PC display settings or TV display settings. I'd personally recommend going with the PC settings, so as to not interfere with your general program viewing on your TV, at a later time.
Sit Back and Enjoy a Movie
Now everything is set up properly, you can sign in to whatever video service you end up picking and luxuriate in this media on your perfectly set up TV set. Wanting to showcase a few pics, look at your Facebook account, or view a work-related video presentation on the much bigger display, or stream online movies? The choices are almost endless.
Linking your PC to your television through cables is going to be your cheapest option, however not overly practical, there's also options and devices that let you view your laptop or computer screen on the television wirelessly. Having said that, you’ll obviously have to acquire additional equipment that'll likely cost you a good $100 dollars. To see these alternatives, take a look at our write-up on top video streaming players.
Resources:
internet streaming