Tips and Tricks for Your New Laptop

Tip 1: Do you see HDTV on your laptop
Did you know that you can see your favorite TV programs without TV? With the right accessories, you can use high-definition television on a laptop computer.

There are many portable high-def tuner, receivers and antennas for laptops. Also can be found, many of HDTV content decisions on the road. A common misconception is that high-def signals are available only through cable and satellite broadcasts. However, all free-to-air TV stations in Australia are now broadcasting HD signals. This includes cable favorites such as The Comedy Channel and National Geographic, but at least their HD Sunrise resolve.

The Netcomm Banksia Digital HD USB TV tuner, Elgato EyeTV DVB-T stick and the U3 Compro video Mate DVB-T Stick cost between $ 100 and $ 200 and offer a variety of DVR functionality. You may want to signal availability in your area before buying. Like when you deal with old-fashioned rabbit ears, signal strength depends on the topography and atmospheric conditions.

Tip 2: Transfer YouTube videos on your HDTV
You can watch Internet video on a tiny laptop monitor. But why not close your laptop with your state-of-the-art HDTV and watch that ridiculous YouTube video in the living room?

There are many options for connecting your laptop to your HDTV, but you can through inputs and outputs. Unless your laptop has been built specifically for home theater use, it probably does not have several options, a video output signal to an external display such as your HDTV.

Look at your laptop graphics card and adjust the best connection option that both the display and the laptop share. DVI is becoming more and more frequently (instead of analog VGA), it is your best bet for a quality connection (that is, HDMI ports on your HDTV). S-Video is a more likely option, it appears as a single, black, four-pin cable. It is a few steps below DVI in terms of quality, but it is far from being the worst. The bottom line in the area of video quality is one of the composite video port (the yellow cable, which is usually accompanied by red and white audio jacks).

If you are limited to a composite video connection on your laptop, you may prefer to upgrade your laptop if you plan on watching a lot of Internet video on your TV. Consider a Windows Media Center laptop, such as the Toshiba Qosmio G30. Standard component cable (red, green and blue) will work together with HDTVs, but it is limited to higher-end home theater PCs and laptops.

Tip 3: See DVDs on a long flight
Imagine that you have an eight-hour flight with just your laptop and a few discs for a while. Unfortunately you can not get enough juice from the battery to cover your trip.

The powers that have heard, your anguished cries of boredom and have implemented a useful new feature in the current generation of laptops. Shell programs allow you to play DVDs and music CDs to browse and media files and saves battery life and skipping the hassle of booting the OS every time you want a movie or listen to music. Check with your laptop manufacturer to see if it offers a proprietary shell program for playing CDs and DVDs.

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