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Connect your PC to your HDTV, and control it from across the room |
September 26, 2013
Peter asked me for the best way to connect a PC to an HDTV, and, once connected, how best to use it.
Even in these days of Internet-capable HDTVs and set-top boxes, you still occasionally need to connect a PC to your television. You may have an Internet-capapble smart TV, a connected Blu-ray player or game console, and a dedicated streaming machine like a Roku, Chromecast, or Apple TV. But inevitably, at some point, you're going to want to watch streaming content from a Web site that none of your devices support. And you will want to watch it kicked back in an easy chair or with friends. That calls for a real television.
So eventually, you'l need a way to connect your PC to your HDTV--and a way to control the PC from across the room.
And yes, I know that a Chromecast can send virtually any Web-based video stream from a Windows PC to an HDTV. But in my experience--assuming you're not using a Chromecast-supported service like Netflix or Youtube--the experience is well below that of connecting your PC directly to the television as described below.
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Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2048281/connect-your-pc-to-your-hdtv-and-control-it-from-across-the-room.html#tk.rss_howto
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