Connecting your PC to Your HDTV For Dummies

by Admin on February 9, 2010


You can see video or pictures from your PC on your HDTV, or use your HDTV to search the Internet, by hooking up the correct cables to ports from computer to television. This video tutorial provides steps for networking your PC and HDTV.

{ 15 comments… read them below or add one }

hotchilango February 9, 2010 at 12:40 pm

I connect VGA pc to HDTV. I can see windows loading screen and computer brand etc. and when it gets to login screen>> this appears on a black screen>> NO SIGNAL

xy274 February 9, 2010 at 1:07 pm

i am not a dummy >:O

xXgodOFsnipexX February 9, 2010 at 1:19 pm

ok my tv only has vga connector and my vid card has DVI if i plugged dvi side in to the pc and the other side of the wire had a vga slot , would i stil get good quality?

phoobear66 February 9, 2010 at 1:26 pm

I agree. You did get right to the point. The others had too much information.. I do believe i can work with this.. Thanx..

sharkguy95 February 9, 2010 at 1:36 pm

This is what I needed. All the other videos give me to much information I dont need. You got right to the point, thankyou.

pistonsfreak3 February 9, 2010 at 1:50 pm

its called a 1/8 wire or something. if u just say tht at like radio shack, theyll hook u up

jon204 February 9, 2010 at 2:27 pm

i use hdmi on my hdtv to conect my pc ,ps3,and other devices

imapplhelper February 9, 2010 at 3:04 pm

just get a male-male cable aka headphone jacks ut with the jack on ether side of the cable

gamer3925 February 9, 2010 at 4:00 pm

it will work even if its not an hdtv, but u will still need the outputs and cables required to watch it.

hollocast February 9, 2010 at 4:53 pm

Thats the AUX cable (Green) like the cable the you connect from your PC speakers to your computer.

jring10 February 9, 2010 at 5:08 pm

at the 0:40 mark. What is the audio to audio cable you are using?

soupman500 February 9, 2010 at 5:35 pm

Will this work is my tv is not hd?

KILLCOMBO February 9, 2010 at 5:40 pm

so if you have a video card with a hdmi and use it you can still serch the internet??

LamKoodle February 9, 2010 at 5:50 pm

Exactly what I needed, I have an ati 4870 which doesn’t have it though ;(

sungodrah February 9, 2010 at 6:48 pm

holy sh..you know,exactly what i was looking for..i have a new hd tv and wanted to hook my emachines pc to it.
but i need about 10feet or less to do it,hmm hope they sell a long enough cable..

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