How to Hook a Computer up to TV

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Hooking up the computer to your TV can be economical for personal use and for business use. For example instead of buying those huge and costly projectors you can use the big screen LCD TVs for your official presentations. Hooking up a computer to you TV is not a big deal, it is simple and easy, you can probably do it yourself without the help of a technician. All you need to do is just follow the steps below.

Step1: First, decide what type of computer you have to hook to your TV. Is it a desktop computer or a laptop computer? Generally, most people will have a desktop in their house and office, so let’s take the desktop into consideration.

Step2: Now, the second thing that we need is to check which TV you are planning to use. Is it your CRT TV or HD TV (LCD)? Let’s take the CRT TV into consideration as most often that is what people use in their houses.

Step3: Now, you have to check what type of video output your computer has, the video output maybe one of three types: S-video output, VGA output or DVI output. However, most of the computers will have VGA output, but the latest computers might have DVI output. So, let’s take VGA (Video Graphics Array) output.

Step4: Check the input for your CRT TV, generally it has S-Video input.

Once you have verified all the above information it is very easy to hook computer to your TV. For that you will need a converter box which will help you to convert the VGA output from your computer to TV signals that can be connected through S-Video input in your CRT TV. You need two cables; one will be VGA cable and the second will be S-Video cable.

Here you can connect your computer to the converter box using the VGA cable and from the converter box you will have to use the S-video cable to connect your CRT TV input. This will complete the connection.

The main thing is to get audio. For that you need to have the 3.5 mm RCA cable. Connect the RCA cable from speaker out-port of you computer to the audio right/left which is at the back of CRT TV so that it will produce sound from your CRT TV instead of computer.

Once you hook the computer to your TV you need to adjust resolutions from your desktop so that you can get a better picture output.

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Originally posted 2010-04-08 03:46:40.

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