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Watching video on my Fire TV from PC using HDMI cable

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February 08, 2024, 03:42 PM
kz1000
Watching video on my Fire TV from PC using HDMI cable
Am I doing something wrong? My desktop is showing on my TV, but nothing else shows up. No wireless connection involved, PC > HDMI cable > TV.



I know, I need to clean my TV screen.


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"The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind."
-Bomber Harris
February 08, 2024, 04:14 PM
radioman
go to change display settings and make sure it is on "duplicate" rather than "extend displays"


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February 08, 2024, 04:58 PM
nhtagmember
is your tv input capable of handing the output resolution of your laptop?
February 08, 2024, 05:17 PM
architect
What happens when you skip the Fire and connect directly from the laptop to the TV via HDMI?
February 08, 2024, 05:38 PM
smschulz
quote:
Originally posted by radioman:
go to change display settings and make sure it is on "duplicate" rather than "extend displays"



^^^^ this
February 08, 2024, 06:33 PM
83v45magna
Works fine, been doin' it for 20 years.
February 09, 2024, 09:10 AM
kz1000
quote:
Originally posted by radioman:
go to change display settings and make sure it is on "duplicate" rather than "extend displays"


Thank you! That did the trick, only issue is my monitor is square and my TV is rectangular so it changes the resolution to fit the TV. No problem, since I don't use both at the same time. The sound comes out of the computer but not the TV how would I fix that?


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"Yidn, shreibt un fershreibt"

"The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind."
-Bomber Harris