Netflix, a Sansung HDTV, an old PC, working broadband ...... and us.

[Stinky The Clown]

We have a Netflix subscription that allows us to buy streaming movies in addition to getting the discs delivered.

We have a Samsung 1080p flat screen

We have several completely functional but little used WinXP boxes.

We have Verizon FIOS broadband.

We have experimented and have been able to send PC signals to the teevee and get it to display. But we never got the sound to work. We wound up watching on the teevee but listening through a tiny, tinny set of laptop speakers.

Is there any way to hook all this together so we can easily watch streaming movies from Netflix? Do we need new hardware? Do we have enough hardware and just need to know what to connect to what? Maybe we need some special cable?

Can anyone help?

[canetoad]

1. You will need to connect the audio port

of the PC to the television. Try an RCA cable with red/white plugs or maybe a mini phone jack.

[Stinky The Clown]

2. By this,do you mean the green minijack on the PC's sound card?

The green miniplug jack into which the PC speakers plug?

Is this the cable I need:

One Red RCA and One White RCA ---------- 2 wires ------- Y --------- one wire ------- Green Mini(1/8"?)Jack

[Warpy]

3. Actually, I'd suggest getting some decent speakers for the laptop

unless your TV has better speakers than most of them do or you're connecting to a home theater setup.

If it's the latter, you need a stereo jack to the computer's green port and a split on the other end with two RCA jacks.

[canetoad]

4. Aye, that's what I have

Rather than a TV I have a second big monitor on a long extension lead and a good set of 2+1 speakers. Makes all the difference.

[Stinky The Clown]

5. Well that was easy! Thanks to The Woman At Radio Shack

I took a picture of the back panel of my teevee and hauled myself to the local Radio Shack. The woman who owns the store was very helpful.

"Yes, you could get a cable that splits the headphone/speaker "out" to two RCA jacks and connect them to the teevee's audio "IN".

"Or you could plug in here" as she points to a fitting on my teevee next to the VGA jack. It is - tada - an 1/8" jack connection. She sells me a cable with 1/8" jacks at each end. One goes into the headphone jack on the PC and the other into the "PC IN" sound jack.

Now it all works and we're streaming netflix on the big teevee.

Very cool!

[Betty88]

6. mini to rca cable, computer to tv

put the mini in the computer sound card, or headphone jack, then RCA to the TV. I think you can get this cable for about 5 bucks.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882021056&cm_re=mini_to_rca-_-82-021-056-_-Product