How would I connect my computer to my TV for movies?

How do I connect my Computer to my TV to watch movies.?

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    You'll need a video card that supports this feature. Typically, the graphics card will be advertised as supporting VIVO (video in/video out). Anyway, you should have a connector on the back of a video card that supports video out, and you will plug an adapter that also came with your video card into the connector. Then you will go the Advanced button on the Setup tab of the Windows Display properties in the control panel. There, you will either mirror your desktop to the TV out, or select from various other options, depending on your video card. You may have S-Video out, or you may have strictly an RCA connector. Don't forget, that's just video, so you'll also need to patch the sound from your sound card into your television. If you have a digital HD television or receiver, you may be able to hookup the computer's video to your tv using the DVI or plain VGA "D"-type connector.

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I've hooked mine up through a VGA type cable (the type of cable that comes out of a computer monitor). I hook up my Apple iBook with a video out cable that runs to the VGA hookup on my TV (not all TV's have them, but most HDTV's do) and then it transfers the image from my laptop screen onto the full 42". It's awesome, especially for things like movies and youtube.

foreversnight

locate a s-video out or a RCA jack to plug into your computer and connect it to your TV. just make sure your video card has a TV-out capability

nhasty_16

You need a TV-out on your video card. Some have S-video out ports near where the monitor is plugged in, some have a composite video (the yellow hookup) out port. If you have neither, I'm sure you could find something to convert from the monitor-in port on your computer's back to composite or S-video. Though the resolution would be much lower on a TV. (You'd also need to convert on your sound card the audio-out to the sound composite cables (red and white). You could get something like that cheap, though one with a long enough wire would be more expensive, as would be for the video wires. I think the best bet is a wireless media setup where your wireless network connection broadcasts video to a box connected to your TV. You could stream your videos directly. DSM-320 is a cheap model.)

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