How to connect a laptop to a TV and not only ...

In this article I would like to share my experience on connecting various home appliances and suggest starting with how to connect a laptop to a TV.

When I bought my first laptop, I was happy for a long time with its mobility and compact size. But after a while I had a desire to watch my favorite films and photos on the big screen of the TV, and I began to look for ways how to connect the laptop to the TV.

Having typed in the search engine: "How to connect the laptop to the TV?", I received a large number of answers and recommendations. I will try to systematize instructions received by me.

We check both devices for the presence of an input and an output for their connection. Modern technologies offer us three main types of ports and connectors, these are:

1. Four-pin analog video connector - S-video. By using this connector, you only need one cable to connect the devices.

2. The connector used for a normal connection to a computer monitor is VGA. It has fifteen contacts and uses analog technology. The multimedia data transmitted through this connector does not lose its qualities. This is the simplest method and the most common.

3. Digital rectangular port with 24 contacts - DVI. On laptops it is quite rare, but in stationary computers it is used very often and starts to displace the standard VGA connector.

In my case, there was a VGA connector in the laptop and on the TV. Since I use the Windows 7 operating system, I did not have connectivity problems, because this operating system practically defined and configured everything.

And if, after connecting the VGA cable to both devices, the image did not appear on the big screen, you need to go to the "Control Panel", then in "Screen Settings" and in this section manually specify the extension parameters and the screen to which you want to display picture.

Here we have in a concise form disassembled how to connect the laptop to the TV, proceed to the next case - how to connect the TV to wifi.

Finally there was such a convenient thing, like wi-fi. What does this direct connection mean?

With it, without the help of wires, it is possible to connect many different devices, for example, two or more computers (laptops), smartphones, laptops and TV sets. In general, there are a lot of options for building your small network, and besides all of them without providing an access point and a router. The connection setup is very simple, and the technology itself is completely safe, because it is based on WPA2 ™ encryption. In general, this technology works by analogy with Bluetooth connections, only at a speed of 12 times faster and with a larger coverage area.

Before connecting the TV to the wifi, I tried to connect it to the smartphone. First, for the TV it is necessary to purchase an adapter in addition (so that he could receive and view incoming signals). During the connection of the device, exchanging information about themselves, check the compatibility of their work and request a password for the connection. In my case, a virtual access point is a smartphone, since it is a functional device.

Even in this article you could describe how to connect the TV to the router, but this is such a laborious process that most users prefer to contact specialists.

An inexperienced user should pay special attention to such a factor as the compatibility of devices among themselves and the propiska of the correct data redirection route. The main point is to configure parameters that meet the requirements.

It is possible to sum up (my opinion) - it is better to entrust the connection to the specialists. Since connecting a TV to a router is a very serious process. But if you are not too lazy and find detailed instructions on how to connect the TV to the router, you can safely consider yourself a specialist and configure the connection.