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Let Me Know, Have you ever think if you can connect your laptop or PC to your TV or HDTV to show off your latest digital photos to your friends and family? Those who are games fanatic would be happy to hook-up their laptop or PC to an HDTV for great gaming experience. Ok, This simple guide will try to help you to setup your laptop or PC to connect to your TV or HDTV.

1. First, you need to check if you have the needed cables to connect your laptop to your TV.
For better picture quality, you should connect the laptop or PC to the TV using standard VGA ports or via the DVI to HDMI cable provided with your TV that supports these ports.

If you laptop or PC has no DVI port, you can transform your laptop’s USB port into a DVI port using an adapter to connect it to your HDTV. The adapter has 128mb onboard memory, making it capable to handle resolution of up to 1400×1050 with quality similar to a DVI port.

2. Make sure that you connect the cable to the TV before turning on the laptop or PC as it may fail to detect and recognize external display sometimes. Open the display settings by clicking on Start Control Panel Personalization then click on “Connect to a projector or other external display” to get into Windows Mobility Center. Click on “Connect display” option to automatically detect and activate 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.

3. 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 1″ or “Video 2″ depending on how you have made the connection.
Important: You may also need to change the screen resolution of your TV using the Display settings in your Control Panel else the picture may appear distorted.

How to Setup Audio from Laptop to HDTV
The above mentioned information will help you get video signal from laptop to show up to your HDTV. However, you will need to use a different cable in order to get the audio to your TV. Every laptop has a mini-headphone jack input so you can just buy a mini-headphone cable with male connectors on both ends.
If your HDTV does not have a mini-headphone jack input you can use a headphone to RCA cable to get the audio from your laptop or PC to your HDTV.

Good luck

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