HOW TO CONNECT LAPTOP TO TV

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HOW TO CONNECT  LAPTOP TELEVISION SCREEN

STEP 1:MOST computers have an s-video port can be connect to the s-video input of your tv screen using a very cheap s-video cable so this cable is round with 4 or 7 pins . if you have an older monither , you can use the 15 pin vga caable to connect the computer to the tv  and it will offer better picture quality than the.




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(s-video cable)

(VGA cable)

(DVI cable)

the newer HDTVs and laptop computers have DVI ports so a dvi male cable or DVI  to HDMI adapter  cable can be used to hook the computer display and the TV. the DVI to HDMI caable can be used when your HDTV doesn't have an DVI port but dies have an HDMI PORT .

CONNECT THE AUDIO RCA CABLE FOR SOUND 

STEP 2:  now that you have connect the computer  to the TV using a physical cable , you need another cable to transmit the sound as all the so above cables only transit the video but the audio part.

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 (MINI to RCA audio cable)

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 connect 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 youur computer.

STEP 3: OPEN THE DISPLAY SETTING ON YOUR WINDOWS  COMPUTER AND ACTIVATED 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 wwindows 7 press the keyboard shortcut windows +p to quickly access the display setting or search for connrct 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 or video 2 depending on how have made the connection. 

MOST IMPORTANT : make sure that you connect the physical cable  to the 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  setting in your control may sometimes any default so no problem .