Play Movies on TV From Your Laptop for Cheap

Posted by tuxchick on Sep 24, 2010 11:14 PM EDT
Linux Today; By Carla Schroder
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An easy and cheap way to connect any laptop with a VGA-out port to a TV or home theater receiver. Use your TV as a big computer screen or watch movies. This won't be a big deal to ace multimedia gurus, but it's a medium-big deal to me. It's been on my to-do list for a long time to make a multimedia PC to serve up music and movies to my home theater system. There are all kinds of great media servers in Linux-land, like MythTV, GeeXbox, XMBC, LinuxMCE, and many others. Until I build one of those, I wanted a simple way to play movies from a laptop...

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