Are you looking to connect pc to tv so that you can use your TV as a computer monitor? What are you going to need in the way of connectors and adaptor and cables to do this? Do you know where online to look for this information? We all know that there is so blasted much information already online. The question here becomes one of "ferreting out" the right information. By this we are referring to the proper information for your specific make and model of PC and TV.

When you first look into the connect pc to tv idea you need to take a close look at a couple of things. The first being the backs – and sides in the case of most laptop/ notebook computers today – of both the PC and the TV that you want to connect. You need to see what type of connectors and ports are on each one. It is very important to know what types of connectors and ports are on each before you even start. Yes, it is very true that you might not even recognize what they are. You might not understand what does what in terms of the input and output functions of each.

There are some of us out here that would not know a VGA Adapter/connector from a USB port. Some have not cotton-picking idea what an HMDI or a DVI input happen to be. These are things that you really need to understand before you even think to connect pc to tv. Knowing which of these you have on your PC as well as on your TV makes a great deal of difference! You need to know all of this so that you know if you actually need to buy any type of adapter or adapters to do this.

There are several different types of Cables that you are going to need in order to connect pc to tv properly. Here again you need to know what type of connectors you have on both the PC and the TV. For some you may simply need 3.5 millimeter PC cables that have a center-prong end on them to connect the two together. In other cases you might need USB Cables to complete the necessary connections.

Here again we will say that there are going to be times that you are going to need certain types of so-to-speak "universal adapters" so that you can connect pc to tv the way that it needs to be done. The entire point here is having the proper equipment for the job.