How to connect a computer to a TV

Good afternoon, dear readers of the portal Your PC World. In today's article, we will show you how to connect a TV to a computer via HDMI. To set up the connection, we need: a computer with a video card that has an hdmi output, a TV and the hdmi cable itself. If you do not have such a cable, you can use another one, vga or dvi. But be sure to make sure that your TV has the appropriate inputs. If your TV has HDMI, then we recommend using it, because if you connect your TV to your computer via vga or dvi, you will need another cable to connect the sound. But when connected using hdmi, everything will be output to the TV via one cable and video and sound.

Connecting a cable from a TV to a computer using HDMI

In our article, we will connect the TV to the computer using a 10 meter hdmi cable. If you use a different type of cable, then the connection and all settings will be exactly the same as ours.

So, first we connect the cable to the computer. On the back side of the system unit, we find the HDMI output on our video card and connect one of the ends of our cord to it.

After that, we connect the second end to the TV (you can connect both with the equipment turned on and off, but we would still recommend that you turn it off).

Connecting with other cords - VGA and S-Video

In fact, the process itself does not change, only the cord and sockets in which you will connect it change. But to make it clearer and clearer for you, we will show which cords to insert where.

So the VGA cable is analog video. This cable has the following appearance.

It connects to the computer in this socket.

And on TV, here it is.

Important advice! Please note that VGA cables have a very big drawback. When using cords over 5 meters, the picture quality is very sharply reduced. For example, we had experience when we connected a regular monitor using a 10-meter VGA cable. The quality of the image dropped so much that it was extremely difficult to read the text, and the video was very blurry! So, if your computer is more than 5 meters away from the TV, then use only HDMI.

The S-Video cable is an obsolete format (mostly used only on video cards of older computers). He looks like this.

In the computer, it is connected to where the arrow is indicated in the photo.

And on the TV, this is the connector.

Settings to be made on the computer

Step 1 - Setting Up Screens

Now that our cable is already connected, we start the computer (we do not turn on the TV yet). When the computer has booted, turn on the display settings. To do this, on an empty spot on the desktop, right-click and select the "Screen Resolution" property. Here you can adjust the image output settings on your computer and TV.

For example, you can duplicate screens (that is, what you see on the computer screen will be the same on the TV).

You can simply expand the screen (this means that the TV will be a continuation of the computer monitor screen. You can turn on the movie and drag it to the TV with the mouse, and go about your business on the computer).

Just select the mode that suits you and click the "apply" button.

Step 2 - Setting the TV Resolution

The next step is to set the TV screen resolution. Why is this needed? If you do not adjust the resolution, then the picture on your TV will not be full screen, but something like this.

Therefore, in the screen settings, select our TV.

And we set the resolution for it, we recommend setting the resolution to 1024 by 768 (this is a standard resolution that is suitable for almost all TVs. If your picture is not full screen even at 1024 by 768, try other resolution options and choose your own). On our TV at this resolution, the picture is displayed in full screen.

Step 3 - Adjusting the sound

So, we have already configured the output of the picture to the TV, now we need to configure the audio output. To do this, go to "control panel - hardware and sound - manage sound devices".

In the window that opens, you will see a device called HDMI Output. These are your TV speakers. In order to enable audio broadcasting to them, you need to set them as the default device. To do this, click on the device icon with the right mouse button and select the "use default" item and the apply button. The sound will then be output to the TV.

Settings to be made on the TV

Now that all the settings are done, you can turn on the TV. To connect it to a computer, you need to specify the signal source in its settings. This is done simply. Go to the menu and look for similar settings there. In our case, on the LG TV, these parameters can be accessed by pressing the “input” button on the remote control.

You will see a menu in which you need to select HDMI and press the "ok" button on the remote control. After that, you will have a picture.

That's it, now you already know how to connect a TV to a computer and you can comfortably not only watch movies and listen to music, but also play video games.