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Television. Can be used to display video and project audio or it can be used for video display only. Questions regarding the functionality and usage of TVs to watch broadcast programmes are off-topic.

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VGA connected Monitor flickers when TV source != HDMI/PC

I have a PC with inbuilt graphics card that is connected to my TV through a HDMI cable and to a monitor through a VGA cable. When the monitor is on and the tv is on with it's source set to HDMI (ie, ...
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Cannot Cast to my TV anymore

I have a Windows 10 Pro (version 1511) and a Samsung series 6 LED TV. I was able to right-click on a media file, select "Cast to device", and choose my TV from the menu, and this will play the media ...
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Watch a large video file on a TV screen via HDMI

I am planning to buy a TV screen for a reasonable price (don't know which one yet). I have on my laptop large video files (+- 7GB per file, 1080p, 5000 to 10000 kbps) and I would like to know if an ...
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How can I fix letterboxing / stretching?

I'm using a Samsung syncmaster 2032mw TV as a pc monitor, it works perfectly fine over vga but I want sound and there's no space / sockets for the speakers I have. I opted to use HDMI which is perfect ...
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How to give a 5GB video file to a friend, so that it'll play on their TV? [closed]

I have a .mov that I'd like to bring to an event and show people. It is 5.33 GB and I have it on my Mac. I have a 16GB flash drive, and the host has a TV with USB input. I'd like to get that file onto ...
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Why doesn't a 4K TV give 4K resolution?

I have designed the front page for a website that contains a lot of information. I have fixed the size of the page to 3530x2070 which should easily fit on a 4K screen with a resolution of 3840x2160. &...
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How to use gnutv with dvb-c

I was using gnutv with DVB-T for some years, just with the commandline gnutv -channels ~/channels.conf -out file somefilename STATION_NAME channels.conf generated by w_scan -f c >channels_dvb-c....
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Photos streamed to Samsung TV are too small

I would like to stream my photos from Win10 PC to Samsung TV using Right-click on photo, Play to -> Samsung TV. Generally it works fine, but the photos are like thumbnails on the TV. I was looking ...
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I broke an LCD tv screen, could it be dangerous? [duplicate]

I accidentally broke my TV(Strange circumstances led to a cracked screen. I've read that it can be dangerous and deadly because there could be something called MBBA inside. It's an LG smart TV (I don'...
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Set window to open up on a specific monitor

I am using Windows 10. I have a dual setup with a monitor and a TV. I use the TV only when I watch movies, sports, etc. Otherwise I keep it turned off. When I press a window sometimes it opens up in ...
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Inputting audio signal to a PC

I want to have my TV and PC connected to the same sound system which is a "custom" surround 4.0. I currently have wired 2 speakers to the line out of my integrated PC sound card and 2 speakers to the ...
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Bell Fibe. Offsite TV control via VPN

I have a VPN server set up behind my Bell Fibe router via port forwarding on an old Mac with FreeDNS. Connection works perfectly and all other services inside my home are accessible. Is it possible ...
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Tv shows lower res than PC is outputting

I just upgraded my graphics card, on the old one I used a dvi-I to vga adapter to my tv, however if i tried using an HDMI cable I got the proplem where the tv would show a pixzelated screen, I assumed ...
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Tower PC no longer connects to TV via HDMI cable

I have a PC connected to a TV via HDMI. It was working just fine until one day I turned both on and it wouldn't give me a signal. The problem is with the PC but I haven't managed to diagnose it. I ...
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How do 1080p text and computer sources look on a 4K Display?

I've never seen a monitor that can display text in its non-native resolution without looking fuzzy. While Video, Images, and Games look decent, you can tell that scaling is occurring. Now, there are ...
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TV screen turns off/flickers when connected to computer through HDMI

My computer is connected to three displays: Cable: DVI - Display: 27" computer monitor Cable: DVI-HDMI - Display: 24" TV Cable: HDMI - Display: 50" TV (routed through an Onkyo 5.1 surround sound ...
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watch a 1080p movie on 1080p TV on my computer that has a 720p display

Good morning everyone, I have a question. If I watch a 1080p movie on 1080p TV (Or 4K movie on 4K TV), on my computer that has a 720p display, so is it run as 1080p (Or 4K) or just as 720p? PS: My ...
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Common video format for TV (old decoder) playback

I have a PHILIPS TV/Monitor. I want to watch movies from USB flash drive directly on the TV. The problem is - PHILIPS do not have any updates for the TV software. I requested an update, but request ...
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I'm using a TV as a monitor. Why are my resolution choices so limited when the TV supports more?

I am trying to use this tv as a monitor. As you can see, this tv supports 1920x1080 full HD. However, when I plug it into my Windows computer (which can easily support this, it supports it on other ...
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Can a hometheater be connected to PC?

I am planning to buy Samsung 32J4300 TV. And I want to connect Logitech Z-906 5.1 Speaker System with it. Q1. Can it be connected to my TV. I am asking this because I have tried to connect my ...
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Display PowerPoint on TV without Dedicated PC [closed]

I would like to display a PowerPoint presentation on a TV screen. The only way I know of to do this is to hook up a dedicated computer to the TV and run the PowerPoint on the PC. But, I'm wondering if ...
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Sharing a smart tv signal

If I have a new, up to date in 2015, samsung smart tv with comcast cable in my LR is there a way to use screen mirroring / wi-fi to watch that movie in my kitchen...on my tablet or on another smart tv?...
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HDMI not recognized on Samsung TV

I know it's not exactly what SU is about, but I didn't know where else to turn at this point. I'm trying to hook up a Samsung LA32S81B television to my/a computer using HDMI. This is a moderately old ...
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What cable do I need to perform this connection

I want to output audio from my laptop to my TV. I output the video using VGA. Here is the picture from my manual. I need options 6. The one where there's a VGA cable and a sound cable. I don't ...
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Monitor (TV) shows as active even when turned off

I have my primary PC with the monitor (DP) and TV (HDMI) connected. When I turn off the TV, my PC till shows that TV as active display. Any ideas?
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ffmpeg .mpg to DVD (via DVDAUTHOR) 4:3 aspect ratio wrong

I have tried to get a 4:3 aspect ratio correct for DVD-TV presentation, but nothing seems to get it right. So, I made a TEST 448x336 px T.MKV movie that has a white background and two squares of ...
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Can a TV decode audio passed to it from a HDMI port?

Simple question: A movie is being transmitted via the hdmi port of a tv from a device like laptop/computer/mobile . Which device does the audio decoding ? Will it always be the device sending the ...
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How to connect desktop to box-type tv through IPTV Set-Top box with HDMI cable

I have an old box-type tv, desktop, iptv set-top box and HDMI cable. The iptv connects to the tv with red,white,yellow cables, and it also has HDMI port. So, I tried to connect pc to the iptv with ...
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Starting xbmc fails with TV connected, "unable to create GUI"

I got an Banana Pi with Bananian running on it. I installed xbmc on it. When I connect my Banana Pi to my TV with a HDMI cable it shows an TTY as expected. When I try to run xinit /usr/bin/xbmc --...
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Windows 8.1 and a Sharp Aquos

I just bought a new Laptop with Windows 8.1 on it. My previous laptop had Windows 7 and was perfectly able to duplicate and display perfectly on my TV with a HDMI connection. After I updated that ...
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hdmi screen extend lagging and no sound

When i use my tv as an external monitor (hdmi screen extend) it workes fine until i choose my tv as default speaker. then all my videos starts to lag and there is no sound what so ever. When i was ...
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Wirelessly transmit computer screen to TV? [closed]

We've got about 7 Ubuntu-based machines which we want to be able to display on a TV screen at will (but only one at a given time). What's the best way to do that? We haven't bought the TV yet, if ...
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Select Google music track on Android to play via Nexus Play/Fire TV/Apple TV -> AV receiver [closed]

I'd like to achieve the following setup: My music library stored in Google Music An app on my android phone that allows me to select a track from the library That track then plays on my home audio ...
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uTorrent .. How to Set Order in " Prioritize by file order "..?

This is cool feature to download TV serial.... But but i want to know how to set order ? If original order is wrong then ? When you use feature " Prioritize by file order " then utorrent downloads ...
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PC connected to HDTV via HDMI, no signal during boot sequence

I just assembled a computer with an Asus Z97M Plus motherboard and an EVGA GeForce GTX970 card (model 04G-P4-2974-KR). The display is a Philips 32PFL5605D/78, which is a 32" TV with 1080p resolution ...
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How to exploit the Sony Direct-rR-Bravia mode with windows 7?

I bought a new TV (Sony) and I set it in WiFi direct mode. On my laptop, I see a Direct-rR-Bravia wireless connexion. I set the key and tried to connect to it. The link switchs continuously between ...
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Overriding/fixing TV HDMI EDID with Windows

My Samsung JS8500 TV provides a default EDID with only 2 channel audio to Windows/Nvidia. e.g. under audio playback devices, or the monitor device in the Device Manager, the number of audio channels ...
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Hard drive working on TV but not on computer(s)

I have Seagate external powered 1TB hard drive. Its around 5 years old. Around 1 year before I brought Samsung LED TV which supports USB drives to watch media content. After that I use to switch that ...
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Streaming PC with windows 8 to a TV over network

I have a LG TV. I have noticed that I can stream most movie files, for example mp4. files using windows media player, by right clicking on the video->Play to -> LG TV. I am interested if I can stream ...
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Does HDMI connected LCD monitor produce sound from my computer?

I Have a question about using an HDMI-connected LCD TV. When I use 'extend' to extend my desktop to my TV, how do I get the audio to (appropriately) play from the TV? For example, when I put a movie ...
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pc to tv ( black screen)

I have a desktop PC and recently I tried to connect it to the TV instead of the monitor. My monitor uses the resolution 1280x1024 (5:4 ratio) and the TV uses 1366x768 (I guess this is the right ...
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Network based monitor output to smart TV

TL;DR I want my TV to act as a PC monitor but due to the distance between my TV and computer, a normal (VGA/HDMI etc) isn't an option. How do I achieve this? I've got a server, that has windows 8.1 ...
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Start VLC command line but not successful stream

Hi i used this code worked with my old tv-tuner (it connected direct with my PC and i used tv digital for streaming. Start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc" dvb-t://frequency=522000000:...
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How to fix video and audio out-of-sync (sometimes)?

I have a avi video file which plays perfectly on Linux (using e.g. mplayer) and on one TV, but when using another TV the audio happens to be out-of-sync with the video by about 5 seconds! This does ...
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Live TV streaming with Tvheadend works fine on laptop, but not on home server

I have a DVB-T TV tuner USB dongle (Afatech AF9013/AF9015) which I'm using in conjunction with the latest version of Tvheadened and the latest stable build of Kodi. I ultimately want my small home ...
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Why does TV interfere with WiFi?

In my home, we get internet and TV both over an optical fibre. The setup is, this Optical terminator -----Router----Switch---Set top box---TV--Wii U | | ...
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Locking the first screen, but leaving the second screen unlocked

I have an LCD monitor connected to the computer via VGA, and I have a TV with computer connected via HDMI, and the desktop is extended between Monitor and TV. When the computer is locked (should be ...
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Watch TV shows so that I can continue where I left off [closed]

I have several TV shows or series on my harddrive such that folder one contains all of the West Wing TV series and folder two contains all of the Simpsons TV shows and folder three contains all of the ...
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How to switch audio from computer to TV (hdmi)?

At the moment my laptop is connected to the TV via hdmi. Both devices are active and can play sounds. Although I'm quite tech savvy, audio has never been my forte. My conundrum is this: While ...
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How do I watch TV channels broadcast using DVB-T2 television standard on my computer and tablet

I am clueless on what one need to do in order to watch TV channels that is broadcast using DVB-T2 television standard on computer (Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 OS) and tablet (Android tablets). I know ...
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