  hide cookie message 2,851 Tutorials  How to plug in a laptop
to a TV via HDMI  Laptop to TV tips and tricks  Here's you how
to use an HDMI cable to connect your Windows laptop to an HDTV
so you can watch anything you can view on your laptop on your
big HD screen. We'll also show you how to control your HD TV
from your PC.  There are two approaches to this taks: you can
either mirror what is on your laptop's desktop so that it
appears on the TV, or set up the TV as a second monitor, by
extending your desktop onto a second display. Here, we're going
to explain how to undertake the latter task, as it is
straightforward, and allows you to use your laptop as a great
big remote control. (Mirroring the content of your computer on
your TV screen, is a little harder to set up because you need to
match the best resolution for the TV with a workable resolution
on the computer itself.)  You'll need a laptop with an HDMI port
and a TV with an HDMI input - pretty much any HDTV will have
one, but not all laptops have HDMI