Do you want to share your downloaded movies or your latest digital photos to your friends? The same goes for showing your good trip videos or PowerPoint presentations to your family from your laptop onto your beautiful widescreen high-definition television (HDTV). So how to connect your computer to your TV,Toshiba Laptop Battery especially the popular HDTVs? Here’s a quick walk-through method how to connect a laptop or pc to your TV/HDTV.

Part 1: Know about Jacks or Ports for Connecting Laptop to TV
To connect your computer to a TV, your computer needs to have an output port that matches one of the input ports on your TV. There are five basic types of jacks, or ports involved:
1. Composite/phono plug (RCA) – An RCA connector, sometimes called a phono connector, is used for analog audio and video components. Three round colored sockets are standard — left audio is white, right audio is red, and composite video is yellow. These are standard jacks on older TV’s and laptops . A three-prong cable, readily available at any computer or electronics, is the easiest way to make an RCA laptop to TV connection.

Converters/Scalers – This is the most powerful method that involves using a scan converter box, which takes a VGA signal and converts it into S-Video or component video. Besides, Converters/Scalers accept various resolutions in and can output selectable video output formats.So you can have inputs and outputs like these: 800x600->1080i, 1280x1024->720p, etc.
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2. S-Video – This is probably the most common way out there currently because an S-Video cable is cheap as heck and just about every TV under the sun has a S-Video port. Toshiba PA3591U-1BAS Battery You’ll have to make sure you laptop is equipped with this port. Remember, there are two types of S-Video cables: 4-pin and 7-pin. Most laptops and PC’s are equipped with a 7-pin port, so if your TV only has a 4-pin S-Video port, then this method will not work.

3. VGA – If you have a HDTV, then you will be better off connecting using a VGA cable.Sony PCGA-BP1N battery, Sony PCGA-BP2NX battery,Toshiba PA3591U-1BAS Battery It gives much better quality than S-Video and as with S-Video, the cable is very cheap. You usually won’t find a VGA port on regular TV’s though, so this option is if you have an HDTV.

4. DVI - DVI stands for Digital Visual Interface with “digital” being the key word there. The digital signal will give a higher quality picture than either S-Video or VGA. Of course, your computer will need to have a DVI connection and your TV will need to be an HDTV. Sony laptop battery This cord is definitely not cheap, it ranges anywhere from $40 to $80.

5. HDMI – Using HDMI will give you the best quality by far. No computers that I know of yet have HDMI ports, but you can get a DVI to HDMI cable to connect it to your HDTV. HDMI is compatible with DVI. If your HDTV has an audio input, you might be able to connect a separate audio cable from your computer sound card directly to the TV. Otherwise, you'll need to connect the audio signal to a different device, such as external computer speakers or your home stereo system.

Part 2: Step by step to Connect your Laptop/Computer/PC to your TV after choosing the right cable
1. Turn off your computer and place it within easy reach of your TV. Disconnect the monitor, but leave the mouse and keyboard connected.

2. Connect the right video cable from your computer's output to your TV.

3. Turn on your TV and set it to the input that matches the output on your computer. You might need to refer to the user's guide included with your TV for instructions on how to do this.

4. Turn on your computer.
Make sure both screen aspect ratio and pixel resolution of TV and laptop are compatible. You should see Windows displayed on your TV. If the screen looks stretched, or part of the screen seems cut off, you probably need to adjust the screen resolution in Windows. You can adjust both picture ratio and resolution with the Display Settings on the Control Panel of a PC laptop. Mac laptops automatically adjust settings for screen resolutions and ratios; if necessary, the adjustments can be tweaked in System Preferences. If you can't see Windows on your TV, you might need to reconnect the computer to your monitor and adjust the screen resolution before you connect to your TV.
Note: Cables for VGA, DVI, and component video don't support audio signals. Sony PCGA-BP1N battery, However, HDMI cables do support audio signals, but not all HDMI-enabled video cards support audio.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said today that the Government IT strategy, including mention of how open source technology can reduce costs:

... We will promptly publish the data and make the community content in applications to real needs. It does not require large-scale government IT infrastructure, technology and open source, which will be freely available. All you need is the desire and willingness to give up control center.

A simple statement: "IT infrastructure" usually refers to hardware and software. The equipment is not "freely available, even in cases where the free and open source use management and development efforts of free software, not all at once.

The closest to a free IT infrastructure is something like Apps Google, which are not open source, but funded by advertising by Google on the confidence that they make money, if you agree with the platform.

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This is not the first time platitudes was made by the government. Over the past 12 months, the Office of CIO consistently sources as key to reducing capital expenditure in the public sector on major projects to open. We work with Ingres daily public institutions and the implementation of this policy had not seen in practice, and so the announcement with caution. Currently, there are a lot of current contract negotiations with the MoD Oracle, which will be published in the theory of competition, Sony PCGA-BP2NX battery, but, unfortunately, takes place behind closed doors to replace.

We therefore urge the Government to implement the ideas put forward today: to take measures to open public procurement of IT, this thread is in the public and to establish penalties for such facilities assessment software with open source. fail

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