connecting computer to tv

[Stephen]

As far as your computer is concerned the TV is just another monitor. the
tricky part depends on the TV and what kind of TV it is and its inputs. My
old CRT was a PITA to get working, but my newer TV has VGA and HDMI so it
plugs in and the computer looks at it trats it like another monitor. Now
some graphcis cards are much happier about this process than others. Nvidia
if you are using their Drivers makes it a cakewalk, ATI a little less so,
opensource drivers are really hit or miss, and sometimes depend on the
tools you use to manage them. Ubuntu/mint are not bad in this regard at
all. I have had other distros slap me in the face with having to manually
configure my configs to even have the other screen show up.

in all it should be pretty easy unless you have to deal with converting to
TV that does not have ready computer friendly inputs.


On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:25 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:

> If you have an LCD TV, then all they are is giant monitors.  All you'll
> need to do is plug it to the VGA port on the back if it has one.  If it
> doesn't have one, hopefully you have a DVI or HDMI port on your computer.
>  If you have and HDMI port on your video card, just pickup a cheap HDMI
> cable and plug it in.  If you have a DVI port on your computer, you'll need
> a cheap DVI to HDMI converter.  They can be had for just a couple of
> dollars on amazon, including shipping.  Then you'll just need to get an
> HDMI cable and plug it in.
>
> If you have an older CRT based TV, then you'll either need a video card
> with a TV out capability, or you will need a scan rate converter to convert
> the signal to something that the TV can recognize.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
>
> On 01/29/2013 09:38 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>
>> xbmc looks good but what I was wondering was what I needed to do to get
>> it to work. From my research it seems that all you need to do is plug it
>> in and start it up but it seems that is the windows way of doing it.
>> Does it work that way  with Linux too? Another thing, could I do
>> something where I it is like I have two screens with on monitor so I can
>> surf the web and watch d/l movies ? Like one computer with two screens
>>   and each screen is doing something different. Gee, I have a dual
>> processor One processor for each screen!
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Vimal Shah <vimals at sokikom.com
>> <mailto:vimals at sokikom.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     This might offer a few ideas:
>>
>>     http://lifehacker.com/5900626/**create-a-kickass-seamless-**
>> play+everything-media-center-**the-complete-guide<http://lifehacker.com/5900626/create-a-kickass-seamless-play+everything-media-center-the-complete-guide>
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>>     On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         I'm going to hook my tv up to my computer.... what do I need to
>>         do? What do I need to d/l to facilitate this?
>>         :-)~MIKE~(-:
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