Suppose you want to watch a movie or a slide show of pictures to share with your family on the computer, but there is a screen, leaving a lot of room for improvement. In this case, you can connect your computer to the TV screen, so your whole family comfortable.

Laptop connected to Television There There are many ways that you can connect your laptop to your TV / computer. However, the overall video quality will be different in different ways. Which one based on the quality or availability of hardware selection can be used. The first step is to know what type of port and the TV and computer connections are. If you already know the type of ports and connections available on your hardware, you can jump directly to step 2. If not, then the different types of ports for a detailed explanation as follows: -

1) RCA / composite: the oldest and highest quality connection available. They are yellow, red and white connections most of us are familiar with. Yellow for composite video, white and red for the left and right analog audio analog audio.

2) S Video: S-Video or S-video offers slightly better quality than the composite connection. Because it is one of the oldest types of available connections, most televisions and computers have it. There are two types of S- video port, one containing four pins and other with 7 pins. This type of connection for video only. So, you need to connect your computer jack from the headphones to the red and white audio inputs on the TV audio cable, if you want the audio to work.

3) VGA (Video Graphics Array): Most of the computer and the TV has a VGA port. S- video quality is better than it should be the first choice, if you have an HDTV. The old CRT TV, however, will not have a VGA port, you will need a PC-TV converter. Like S- Video, VGA does not support audio and will require an additional audio cable.

4) DVI: Digital Video Interface provides better quality than the VGA connector. Most laptops and HDTVs these connections. As the name implies, this type of connection may be used only with digital TV. Also like the previous two, DVI connection also requires the use of an audio cable audio work.

5) HDMI: the highest quality connection. Most HDTVs will have in this regard, however, chances are that your computer will not. If your computer happens to have an HDMI port, which should be the best to use. If your computer does not, you can use an HDMI to DVI adapter, HDMI converted to DVI.

Step 2: Once a common type of interface between the two devices is identified, you need to connect the appropriate cable to connect physically. Different types of connectors of the cable is depicted above. If you do not find two matching port type, you will need an adapter to connect the type of match.

Step 3: After connecting the two devices, on the TV, select the external input and the TV is connected to the computer. This may be HDMI1 or AV1 It depends on how you connect. This is very similar to how you select the input from your DVD player.

If you have followed the steps correctly, you should now be displayed on the TV on your computer screen.

Important: If your computer does not recognize the external monitor, you must start your computer before you connect the TV. If the image is distorted, you need to change your TV's display settings from your computer screen resolution change. Oldest TV will only support a display resolution, and the new TVs will support them a lot.