How to Use HDMI to Connect Your Laptop to Your TV

If you’re like me, you keep getting those Cable TV or satellite TV bills and wondering why you keep spending money when there’s so much terrific content available on the Internet for free or very little cost. Between Hulu*, YouTube* and a streaming-only subscription to Netflix*, for $10/mo you have access to thousands of movies and hundreds of episodes of TV series.

Maybe it’s time to cut that cord! Problem is, I have a nice big HD television and it’s far nicer for viewing this content than any of my computer screens. The solution? Hook them together. That’s what we’re going to do in this article: I’ll show you how to use a simple HDMI cable to connect your laptop to an HDTV, then tweak Windows* so you can watch anything you’d like on that big screen, even while controlling it all from your PC laptop or desktop computer.