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**Raylo** · 06-09-2009, 04:23 AM

You can't unless you have a media center PC, or a media extender, or jack a laptop PC directly into your TV. i.e., until they build a browser in the TV you will need a computer in the loop. This has got to change....

The easiest way for me to do this is to take my laptop and connect a VGA cable to the TV PC vga input and the headphone audio out to the TV PC audio input and select the PC source on the TV. Then I can watch anything that can be accessed on the computer, including web videos like youtube, network tv shows, live webcasts, etc. To use this method you need a TV that has "PC input" in the sales jargon.

06-09-2009, 04:23 AM	#7 (permalink)
Raylo TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Maryland, USA Posts: 525 OS: XP Desktop, Vista HP Notebook, XP Notebook	Re: What does it mean when a TV ad says it has an ethernet hub ? You can't unless you have a media center PC, or a media extender, or jack a laptop PC directly into your TV. i.e., until they build a browser in the TV you will need a computer in the loop. This has got to change.... The easiest way for me to do this is to take my laptop and connect a VGA cable to the TV PC vga input and the headphone audio out to the TV PC audio input and select the PC source on the TV. Then I can watch anything that can be accessed on the computer, including web videos like youtube, network tv shows, live webcasts, etc. To use this method you need a TV that has "PC input" in the sales jargon.