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Connect your PC or laptop to your Television

Connecting your PC to your TV

   Whether you want to browse your computer on your TV screen and watch movies stored in your computer on your TV, or you want to do the opposite (like watching your favorite TV shows on your PC), this article discusses the how-to as well as the benefits and the problems of each option (and what you can do to get around them). You may also want to do both (record your favorite shows on your PC but watch them on your TV). Whichever of these you're trying to do; the intention of this article is to provide a concise explanation of how to converge your TV with your PC.

   Using your TV as your Display for PC or a laptop, Why?

   More and more people are interested in connecting their TV to their computer. High speed internet connections and fast computers are becoming more ubiquitous and capacitating people with the necessary resources to download large files such as movie rentals or other video clips. But that 17 inch monitor that came with the computer just won't cut it when you have a big screen TV sitting in the other room. Hence the introduction of the PC to TV convergence.

   Watching downloaded movies isn't the only reason why you may be interested in connecting your PC to your TV. You may want to show elaborate slide shows of your digital images or view home videos on the tube. PC to TV converters is also great for running a company presentation from your computer or laptop on a TV.

Why not?

   Although TV's are usually bigger, they aren't necessarily better than a monitor. Even high definition TV's don't support resolutions available on some 17" computer monitors, and even if they did, what might look good, crisp and clean on a 17" or 19" monitor, might not look good stretched across 52 inches.
How?
   One way to connect you computer to the TV (when using a TV as your display) is to get a video card with TV-out. There are cards with composite (yellow RCA), S-video, and component (red, green and blue RCA) outputs for standard and component high definition TV's. If your TV has a digital HD input (DVI or HDMI), you can connect a DVI video card directly to the digital input.

      You can also get a PC to TV converter. These are perfect when you don't want to upgrade your video card (especially with laptops, small multimedia PC's or integrated graphics). The PC to TV converter connects the VGA out on your computer to composite, S-video, component or even high definition component. Remember that running the video out of your computer will only send the video signal and not audio. If you're playing anything with audio, you would still have to use your computer's speakers if you don't send the audio to the TV along with the video. Fortunately, it's not hard to get the audio to your TV.



Product Description

   Easily connect the VGA port on your desktop, laptop, gaming console, etc. to your TV with this one piece PC to TV converter. The PC to TV converter does not require software. Simply connect your VGA source to the converter using the included VGA cable. The converter translates the VGA signal to be able to play on your television. You can connect it to your TV via S-video or composite video (with the RCA connector). The converter is powered via USB, so there is no external power adapter to carry around, making this converter very portable for use with a laptop.

   You also get an additional VGA out port so you can still use your existing monitor in addition to your secondary video source. The PC to TV converter simply mirrors your computer's current video signal for output on an additional display, such as a TV, VCR (to record a new high score perhaps?), or any other video display with an S-Video or RCA input.

   This converter does not include audio. If you need to go to the 1/8 inch sound connector on your sound card to Audio RCA, check out the handy 1/8 inch to RCA Audio cable.
You can order this product here: http://sewelldirect.com/pc-to-tv.asp

Note: You must have a yellow colored input or S-Video on your television.

But wait! What if I don’t have RCA Connectors (red, yellow, and white) or S-Video?

You will need a little device called a RF Modulator. Very inexpensive and very easy to use.
Get it here at Amazon.com

RCA CRF910 Auto Switching RF Modulator with Gold - Plated Connectors, Coaxial and S-Video Input

Wal-Mart sells these RF Modulators in the electronics section.

Ok great, so how do I hook all of this stuff up?

1. You need connecting cables AND OR
2. You need a connection from your TV. It can be RCA, S Video or Cable.

3. On your PC or laptop will be either a VGA out or a connection for S Video

4. Connect one end of the cable to your PC or laptop

or

5. Connect the other end to PC to TV converter or to a RF Modulator.

6. Connect the output from your output from your TV either with RCA, S Video or Cable input.
7. Select your input on your TV and away you go!

Computer audio is usually outputted to a 1/8" (3.5mm) jack common on headphones and computer speakers. You can simply run a 1/8" (3.5mm) to the RCA audio on your TV (a common audio interface on TV’s). If you don’t have a spare headphone or speaker jack on the computer, or if you want a high quality surround sound, you can add a sound card to your computer.