Cast to TV

[piroska]

PC in office, TV also. Is there a way to cast stuff off PC to the TV? Seems a bit silly to Chromecast (haven't got one anyway) when they are both in the same room.  Some wired arrangement perhaps?

TV is not smart, just an old 32". It does have HDMI.

Or is Chromecast the easy less hassle way? This is a Linux PC.

[harm_less]

PC in office, TV also. Is there a way to cast stuff off PC to the TV? Seems a bit silly to Chromecast (haven't got one anyway) when they are both in the same room.  Some wired arrangement perhaps?

TV is not smart, just an old 32". It does have HDMI.

Or is Chromecast the easy less hassle way? This is a Linux PC.

We just use an HDMI-HDMI cable to use the TV as an auxiliary monitor for my laptop. That also tends to be more reliable than transferring the video file to a USB stick as our (not - smart) TV doesn't recognise the format of some of the video files.

[king1]

yep HDMI is the way to go if you have hdmi port on the PC, otherwise you can use the VGA cable for video (blue D plug), same as a PC cable, and a 3.5mm stereo cable for audio.

[Wainuitech]

HDMI-HDMI is the easiest way. Even works fine on a 10Mtr HDMI cable.

Our TV in the lounge has HDMI-HDMI from the PC under the TV, but the speakers are plugged directly into the 3.5mm on the TV Headphone socket running way better speakers than the inbuilt TV.

[Praktica]

PC in office, TV also. Is there a way to cast stuff off PC to the TV? Seems a bit silly to Chromecast (haven't got one anyway) when they are both in the same room.  Some wired arrangement perhaps?

TV is not smart, just an old 32". It does have HDMI.

Or is Chromecast the easy less hassle way? This is a Linux PC.

We just use an HDMI-HDMI cable to use the TV as an auxiliary monitor for my laptop. That also tends to be more reliable than transferring the video file to a USB stick as our (not - smart) TV doesn't recognise the format of some of the video files.

I use the same.

[piroska]

Ok, simple as that huh. Sounds good thanks