You can expand the content available on your home TV by leveraging your home's internet connection. I your TV does not have built in internet connectivity, then you can just connect a laptop to your TV that will allow everything that you do on your laptop to be shown on your TV screen.
If you have an internet connection in your home, that connection can be leveraged to dramatically increase the content available on your TV. Many of the higher end television models can now be purchased with internet connectivity, which is of course the easiest option to connect your TV to the internet but it is not necessarily the cheapest. If your television does not have built in connectivity, then the next best option is to connect a laptop to your TV and then direct the output from the laptop to your TV screen.
Most TVs except for very old models will have an input panel on the front of the TV, which is typically used to connect up gaming systems to your television. This panel usually has connections for red, white, and yellow cords, plus an extra connection for an S-Video cable and these connections can be used to connect your laptop to your TV. You will need an S-Video cable and then an audio cable that will connect from the audio out port on your laptop and will have red and white audio plugs on the other end. These are very standard cables that can be found at any Radio Shack store. The red and white audio plugs from the laptop cable will go into the red and white connections on your TV. You connect the S-Video cable from the laptop to the TV and the yellow connection on the television is not needed as it is an alternate to the S-Video. Virtually all laptops have an S-Video connection because laptops are typically used for presentation purposes in which case this connection would be used to connect the laptop to a TV or an overhead projector.
Once the laptop is connected to the TV, then right click on the desktop of the laptop and go into the graphics options to change the output display option. You can either set the output to go to only to the TV or to go to both the laptop and the TV, which is what I usually do, as I find it a little easier to see the output directly on the laptop where the keyboard is. Once you have this configured, basically everything you do on the laptop will be reflected on your TV screen therefore any videos you can watch on the internet are now available on your television. I also like to use a wireless mouse, which I then can basically use like a remote because I can start and stop what I am watching from a distance.
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