Make your HDTV as a Computer Monitor
Connecting your computer to HDTV is one of the best thing to do to make most out of your TV.
Here are the few items that you can enjoy by connecting them.
1. Play videos/movies stored on your computer.
2. Play the photos slideshow for a bigger and brighter view of your pictures.
3. Play PC video games (you probably will need a wireless game controller or wireless keyboard and mouse)
4. Browse internet (you will be needing a wireless keyboard and Mouse)
5. Last but not least playing You tube on your computer.
There are lot of options to connect your TV to your computer depending upon the output ports available on your computer.
HDMI cable is the current state of art technology that lets you transfer huge amounts of digital data between electronic devices.
If you dont have a HDMI port on your computer you can use the DVI to HDMI connector that is available on Amazon.
Also you can buy HDMI cable on Amazon for a cheap price using the following link.
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Once you have your computer display going on TV, you would want to control the input(Keyboard and Mouse) in a better way rather than using computer Keyboard and Mouse. Obviously easier option is to do it from the computer that is connected to TV, but it will be a cumbersome process to go to the computer every time you want to pause a movie or to get to next photo in the gallery.
Best way is to control wirelessly using wireless Keyboard and Mouse, they will act like your DVD player remote while watching movie and like presentation device (kinda one of those laser pointing devices) while watching photos.
To buy wireless Keyboard and Mouse on Amazon click here
If you have a Mac computer then you can use a product called Apple TV from Apple company itself. They call the mechanism as AirPlay and it can be used to project screen from your other iOS devices like iPhone and iPad. Also they recently released a new version of Apple TV that can handle High Definition data of 1080p. Besides rendering your Mac screen on to your HDTV, Apple TV device also allows to access hundreds of Movies and TV shows from the built in iTunes application.
Apple TV has got much more features, you can play Netflix, YouTube, and Vimeo videos, Catch up on MLB, NBA, and NHL games — live or on demand, Enjoy your movies, music and photos from iCloud.
In a way Apple TV product is like a internet streaming player that does pretty much same thing except accessing iTunes and iCloud and projecting the iOS device screen to HDTV. Also remember that a streaming player cannot project your computer PC screen to your HDTV. They might be putting out newer versions of Streaming Players in future that can project PC screen to HDTV. To learn more about streaming players go to our section of Streaming players .
Here is the link to buy the newest version of Apple TV from Amazon.
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