Sometimes we just settle on watching good movies in a small screen of our laptop even though we are sitting in the living room in front of a 60 inch LCD TV. We all have an idea that computer can be connected to your Plasma TV or LCD TV. But the main question is how can we connect the "computer to the TV?" or "what is the cable that I will use?".
What we need to know to connect your TV from your is if our computer has:
VIDEO CARD WITH TV-OUT (Video Out)
Normally we do need some kind of connection on our PC to connect to the TV, we're looking for a TV-out connector. TV-Out only means: VIDEO out in such a sense that our TV could be able to handle it. A lot of laptops do have a TV-Out as well.
DOES MY PC HAVE A TV-OUT (Video Out)?
Commonly, you will be able to identify this by looking at the back of your PC, look for the VideoCard (your VGA monitor is also connected to this card!). Most videocards by ATI and nVidia (but not all!) have such a connector. It's a MUST for a modern videocard. S-Video (also known as Super Video or S-VHS) Commonly, a TV-Out connector is a S-VIDEO connector. It looks a bit like a connector for your mouse/keyboard (see A and B in the pictures below).
These come in several variants; - with Video-IN and Video-Out signals in one connector - using Composite video or Super Video - only S-VIDEO - only Composite video Usually special cables come with these cards, that convert the connector to a more common connector, like a tulip connector for composite video.