13 Jan 10 How To Connect Your Computer To Your Home Theater
These days a computer can do much more like an entertainment device than ever before. You can watch online videos, listen to music, view photos and more!
But who wants in their home office on a desktop computer sitting or sitting at a laptop computer to do this? "I do not," said the Cat. " Listening through cheap computer speakers and watching videos on a computer monitor is not my idea of real entertainment, how about you?
Why not connect your computer's audio and videoto your home entertainment system? You can watch TV shows, movies and videos on your HD TV or other TV with appropriate inputs. You can listen to music through your stereo when AUX, VIDEO, or any other input with a standard RCA has access.
Connect computer video to the TV:
To connect the video, your computer must have a benefit for which your TV via an input matching.
Almost every computer has a VGA output connector of a kind offor this looks almost rectangular (see) a location of where you connect your computer monitor to the rear end of the desktop computer.
Another video output port can have many computers have S-Video. This is a round connector. S-Video connectors have 4 small round holes (2 on each side) and a small rectangular hole in the ground. S-video cables have a round end with 4 small metal rods and a small rectangular piece of plastic on the bottom.
However, many TVs do not knowVGA inputs and have only some have S-Video inputs. If you do not, you must ensure that there is at least one RCA video (input is a very standard connection that is used to) record players, VCRs and CD players connect to other devices. If your TV has come since the early to mid 1990s, it has very likely, a standard RCA video input.
If your TV has an RCA video input does not have, you just buy a VGA to TV converter. This connects to your computer VGA output and provide RCA andS-Video connectors (the standard inputs are on most TVs since the 1990s).
Make sure you have the proper cables for your TV. Depending on what type of input your TV uses, you are an RCA cable, an S-video cable or a VGA cable required.
Computer sound port on the TV, stereo and home theater system:
Now the hard part is out of the way, the sound is simple. Simply buy a Y-cable. It should contain a stereo male 1 / 8 "at one end and two RCA males on the the other end. Ask your local electronics store, which is a standard cable they will all most likely carry in-stock.
Connect the stereo 1 / 8 "male end of the green jack on your computer (usually on back of desktop computers and on the front or) side view of notebook computers, where you would normally in your speakers connection to connect.
Alternatively, you can connect to 1 / 8 to the headphone jack on your computer. "(Note: any device with a headphone jack can connect to your home to connect to> Theater, like an iPod with the same cable!)
Connect the two RCA males on the L and R input jacks on your TV, home theater or stereo. And that's it! So make sure to choose the right setting (AUX, VCR, etc.) on your stereo or receiver.
Enjoy online content in all the glory to the content of TV, DVD, CD has fallen, and on the radio! There are already tons of online content available on major broadcasting sites, and it will be more than the future be movedforward.
If you do not have a DVD player, but it is a DVD drive of your computer, this setup will turn your computer into a DVD player! Once the connection is established, call the store from whom you purchased your computer and ask how you play a DVD on the computer.
