HDMI on Laptops

lindabea

Hi, Probably a silly question, but I have to ask.... most laptops these days have an HDMI port - can someone please tell me what you would use this for? The only thing I can think of is connecting a blueray, but why would you do this when presumably, you can play it directly on the laptop's dvd drive?

neilwoods

To hook the laptop upto your HD Tv and use the tv as a monitor

Nilrem

The HDMI on a laptop will almost certainly be for outputting, not inputting.
Basically it's to let you hook it up to an external display (TV or monitor) to use that either instead of, or in addition to the laptops screen.

Most laptops for the past 10+ years have had an external monitor connection, it's just changed from the old 15pin VGA to the newer, better HDMI one

marleyboy

The HDMI port on your laptop, will mean your laptop has a HD graphics card installed, meaning it can be hooked up and used on a HD Television.

lindabea

neilwoods wrote: »

To hook the laptop upto your HD Tv and use the tv as a monitor

Most TV have VGA input for doing this; presumably, HDMI will do exactly the same thing but perhaps a better image????

lindabea

Thanks guys - you all answered my question. I can't keep up with all this ever changing technology. As soon as you get used to something, something new will replace it - my poor brain can't take any more!!!

custardy

lindabea wrote: »

Most TV have VGA input for doing this; presumably, HDMI will do exactly the same thing but perhaps a better image????

better image & sound

Inner_Zone

lindabea wrote: »

Most TV have VGA input for doing this;

Most TV's had VGA input for doing this. It now getting rarer as HDMI dominates.

Nilrem

custardy wrote: »

better image & sound

Aye, although some HDMI connections only do the video part, mainly early ones in PC video cards as laptops seemed skip that step.