Connecting to Home Entertainment Systems

You've used your wireless laptop to download that great song or movie, you listened or watched, and now you want to blast it over the house stereo or watch it on the big screen.

There are many ways to accomplish this.

It's possible to simply walk your mobile computer over to your stereo or television and make a connection using good, old-fashioned cabling.

A number of possible output connections on your mobile computer can be used to achieve this, including your USB connector. For a summary of the different possible ways to connect a mobile computer to a stereo, and the pluses and minuses of each, see http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/howto-pc-audio.html.

Connecting a mobile computer to a television or ...

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