HDMI : Laptop to TV

We got a new Sony Bravia LCD tv last week. We were curious to use HDMI feature available with the new TV. It worked well with a blu Ray DVD player. When we used laptop to TV, we got the picture but the sound failed.

Here is what we did, to play video from laptop to TV via HDMI cable.

Step 1. Insert the HDMI cable at the Laptop end and the TV end.
Step 2. The LCD TV provides about 3 HDMI ports for connecting various devices like : DVD Player, setTop boxes, camcorders, video game Consoles ( PlayStations etc)play. Now, via the TV remote, enable the correct HDMI port from which the laptop is connected to the TV, so that the picture signal from laptop is made available to the TV.
Step 3. Go to the control panel and ensure that the sound signals are tranmitted via the HDMI port and not the headphones port..

If the headphone port is enabled, the HDMI cables will not carry the sound signals.We went wrong here. Go to the control panel in the laptop and make the following changes to the 'Sound' settings of laptop : 'disable' the Speaker/headphone port and 'enable' the HDMI port only, and play the video..

Now you can n'joy HDMI video from Laptop to TV!!