Originally Posted by Mad Hatter:
“Not got a lot of money in the bank so am happy to buy a reasonably priced cable.
When I plug in the cable, it wont all suddenly work will it? I have been looking online and I have to go into my Control Panel and start setting up different things to enable me to watch catch up tv.
Any very simple instructions please? Many thanks.”
Plug one end of lead into a HDMI port on TV.
Select the HDMI input you have used on TV (won't see anything just yet)
Plug other end of lead into HDMI port on Laptop
And that is pretty much it.
You should now see the background image of your desktop on the TV. You can then drag any program screen off the edge of the laptop and it will appear on the TV. Presumably if using catch-up TV you are using a browser so just drag that over to the TV and do whatever you need to to access the service.
I have a HP laptop (different model range to yours) and both it and my previous HP laptop simply detected the telly as soon as it was plugged in and set the TV display as an extension of the laptop desktop. So no fiddling around in Control Panel required.