If you watch videos or movies online on your computer probably you have wondered how you can watch those videos on your regular TV, well believe it or not that is a very easy thing to do as long as you get the right things.The most economic and easiest way to hook up your Laptop to a TV is with an S-Video Cable, the price ranges from 10 to 20 bucks. An S-Video cable looks like the image below:
There are two types of S-video ports, one is 4-pin and the other is 7-pin, you need to make sure what type your TV has, otherwise you may end up with the wrong cable, check the image below.
If you have an HDTV you will be better off buying a VGA cable, it will give you a much better image than an S-Video cable, and like the S-video cable is very cheap. The cable should look like this image below:
Those two methods should give an idea on how to hook up your laptop or PC to your TV, if you have another method or want to get a more detail procedure please post a comment on this blog. Thanks for visiting.
hi, i have a sony bravia hdtv.. i have the VGA cable shown above also. when i plug the cable from my laptop to my tv it still does not work.. i changed the input to all 5 choices. i was wondering if it has anything to do with my DVD player? that is a home entertainment sony player.
please help. i know i had it working months ago before the dvd player so i dont know if that is effecting it.
thanks,
jep