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Linking laptop to TV
Apologies for asking a perhaps obvious question. There is a (football) game I need to see next Saturday via streaming (hopefully). It would be great to able to link up my Acer laptop to the TV and watch it via the TV. My laptop is modern so has an HDMI socket (as does the TV). Would someone out there kindly advise as to what I need to buy to facilitate this. Thanks.
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Apologies for asking a perhaps obvious question. There is a (football) game I need to see next Saturday via streaming (hopefully). It would be great to able to link up my Acer laptop to the TV and watch it via the TV. My laptop is modern so has an HDMI socket (as does the TV). Would someone out there kindly advise as to what I need to buy to facilitate this. Thanks.
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Is that it, Mr. Thompson? Great but I thought I needed a VGA cable or something? Perfect! Thank you for your help.
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All our laptops link to the TV with just a simple HDMI cable.
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Is that it, Mr. Thompson? Great but I thought I needed a VGA cable or something? Perfect! Thank you for your help.
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Will do. Next question (if I get lucky with a stream) is how then do I stick the transmission on a HDD/DVD please.
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Will do. Next question (if I get lucky with a stream) is how then do I stick the transmission on a HDD/DVD please.
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Bolivia-Brazil, so I think the BBC won't do that one - unfortunately! Thanks for your help.
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Hardware wise that's it. To get the sound on the TV you will most likely have to change the audio output device from the laptop speakers to digital output over the hdmi cable. You may have to change your desktop resolution. Using both displays mine works best at 1280 x 720. My graphics card peaks at 1600 x 900. Experiment before the big match ?
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I think it Depends on each brand as to the specific use of hdmi features. My Toshiba laptop + a relatives brand new win8 Sony laptop are both plug n play for graphics and sound to the tv.
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