Watching streams on a TV

Most people prefer watching Movies, TV shows, sports etc on a television set rather than on the pc screen. Almost all graphic adaptors are equipped with a TV-out feature that allows you to plug your pc to a TV or VCR. The TV-out socket comes either in the form of S-Video or RCA (picture 1) connections (or both). Most TV sets come equipped with RCA (picture 2) and Scart (picture 3) input sockets. if the cable you got with your graphic adaptor (picture 4) does not match the kind your TV has you can use an adaptor (picture 5). You can find these online or on the street for pennies.

If you dont want all the hussle associatd with cables, or if the TV set is too far from you computer (a cable longer than 10 meters may result in a reduced quality of the video signal) you might want to consider buying a wireless transmitor. Google "A/V sender" to find out more about these devices.

Figure 1: RCA and S-Video TVout sockets

Figure 2: TV RCA input socket

Figure 3: TV Scart input socket

Figure 4: RCA (left) and Scart connectors

Figure 5: RCA/S-Video - Scart adaptor