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How to connect my laptop to my TV?

geek84 · 2015-02-28 16:27:15

Hi Folks I have an Acer Aspire 7720G laptop. I often watch films from Netflix on there and would ideally want to connect that to my flat screen TV, to enable me to watch the films/programs on a bigger screen!! The laptop has the following ports: VGA port DVI port Gigabit Lan port USB ports S-video port S/PDIF port. My TV…

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benson1980 Posts: 842 Forumite

14 May 2015 at 4:08PM

If you've got a movie file on your computer have you tried just dragging and dropping it into the chrome browser? Then you can cast the tab.

This won't work for avi files though. Either use something like videostream app, or convert the avi file using handbrake.

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