In At The Bleep End
Saturday, June 30, 2007
http://sewelldirect.com/connecting-your-pc-to-your-tv.asp
1. Get a video card with TV-out. There are cards with composite (yellow RCA), S-video, and component (red, green and blue RCA) outputs for standard and component high definition TV's.
2. If your TV has a digital HD input (DVI or HDMI), you can connect a DVI video card directly to the digital input.
3. You can also get a PC to TV converter. These are perfect when you don't want to upgrade your video card (especially with laptops, small multimedia PC's or integrated graphics). The PC to TV converter connects the VGA out on your computer to composite, S-video, component or even high definition component. You can also use a wireless PC to TV converter if your computer is in another room or far from your TV.
Remember that running the video out of your computer will only send the video signal and not audio. If you're playing anything with audio, you would still have to use your computer's speakers if you don't send the audio to the TV along with the video. Fortunately, it's not hard to get the audio to your TV.
Computer audio is usually outputted to a 1/8" (3.5mm) jack common on headphones and computer speakers. You can simply run a 1/8" (3.5mm) to the RCA audio on your TV (a common audio interface on TV's). If you don't have a spare headphone or speaker jack on the computer, or if you want a high quality surround sound, you can add a sound card to your computer.
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One of these should do it...
http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/57791
