Connecting TV to Laptop to watch movies

Be like Nutella

Quick question if anybody can help me.. will this lead connect a laptop to a TV to watch a movie? Do I need to change any settings to make it happen?

http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/1083820/c_1/1%7Ccategory_root%7CHome%2Bentertainment%2Band%2Bsat%2Bnav%7C14419512/c_2/3%7C19780832%7CTelevision%2Baccessories%7C14419521/c_3/4%7Ccat_14419521%7CHDMI%2Bcables%252C%2Bscart%2Bleads%2Band%2Baccessories%7C28589753.htm

thanks in advance sorry if wrong section

once your laptop has hdmi it should work automatically when you connect the two with hdmi and select hdmi as the source on the tv.
you can have problems sometimes but see if that works first.
hdmi cables €1.50 if you have a dealz store near you. it's only 1m long though.

Be like Nutella

sound thanks for that! so choose HDMI as source on the TV cool stuff cheers

Eoin

You may have to play around with the resolution on the computer to find one that the TV supports. That caught me out the first time - but we've a relatively old LCD telly though. Edit: that may have been using VGA actually, so it may not be a problem for HDMI?

willietherock

Be like Nutella wrote: »

sound thanks for that! so choose HDMI as source on the TV cool stuff cheers

How do you actually go about choosing the source?

shanec1928

willietherock wrote: »

How do you actually go about choosing the source?

the menu that you can either access on the remote or on the tv. and then select hdmi 1

coylemj

shanec1928 wrote: »

the menu that you can either access on the remote or on the tv. and then select hdmi 1

Or 'hdmi2' or 'hdmi 3' or 'hdmi side' if that's on the menu i.e. it depends on which HDMI port you connect to.