Playing movies from your laptop through an HDMI cable, displayed on the TV

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Playing movies from your laptop through an HDMI cable, displayed on the TV; Is it possible?
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sdcpro	Jul 14 2010, 01:41 AM Post #1
Level 9 Posts: 2,243 Group: Members Member #1,460 Joined: Dec 21, 2009	Johnny Justice recently posted a topic that had me thinking: is it possible to play a movie that's stored on your hard drive onto your TV via HDMI cable? I backup quite a few movies onto my hard drive and it would make things 10x easier if I didn't have to burn them to a disc. Thanks for any advice



KeeL246	Jul 14 2010, 01:45 AM Post #2
Posts: 1,711 Group: Founding Members Member #15 Joined: Jan 27, 2009	Yes you can do this, it is just like using a seperate monitor instead of the one on your laptop, I'm not 100% sure you can do it though HDMI, but I know it's possible.



Andsy	Jul 14 2010, 01:51 AM Post #3
Hurf n' Durf Inc. Posts: 1,480 Group: Members Member #1,443 Joined: Dec 14, 2009	Aye, several new laptops have a HDMI-out for this very exact reason. Having a brief look, Buying an after market USB to HDMI adaptor may be a bit more $$$ than most people are willing to pay though.
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Richard	Jul 14 2010, 01:54 AM Post #4
Link Posts: 1,764 Group: Members Member #1,499 Joined: Jan 7, 2010	Yep :). Just hook it up to your TV and use it as a monitor. It is just like doing it with a desktop. Though some laptops only have hdmi in not out which is weird.
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sdcpro	Jul 14 2010, 02:40 AM Post #5
Level 9 Posts: 2,243 Group: Members Member #1,460 Joined: Dec 21, 2009	Interesting. I will have to try it out hopefully it's as simple as it should be lol



Andsy	Jul 14 2010, 03:18 AM Post #6
Hurf n' Durf Inc. Posts: 1,480 Group: Members Member #1,443 Joined: Dec 14, 2009	You may need to press one of the 'F' buttons at the top of your keyboard. It'll have a little monitor symbol on it. I wanna say F6, but I think it changes model to model. But naw, should be fine.
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eSkilliam	Jul 14 2010, 04:24 AM Post #7
Gamer. Graphic Designer. Geek. Posts: 2,001 Group: Moderator Member #980 Joined: Jul 10, 2009 Currently Playing Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Dorrs Twitter @eSkilliam	They started making USB external video cards for laptops, so if your laptop doesn't have HDMI, you may look into that. Laptops for a while now have had S-Video so that might be a lower quality option if you have that. Most of the newer TV's have VGA also, which your laptop should have also, which would be high quality and work. Like Andsy said, there may be a series of keys, or something in the video options you may have to change to set it up as a second monitor, or a clone of the first. If it is a clone setup though, you will probably have to choose one as the primary and one as the secondary, and video will only play on the primary(in a lot of cases), so set that one as the one you want to watch it on.
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