Thursday, February 27, 2014

How to Connect a Mobile Device to Your TV


If you are tired of watching TV on small screen of the mobile devices, there are two solutions to sending video from your small screen to your big screen. One way is by wireless devices, such as Apple TV, Google Chromecast. However, it obviously will cost a lot. Plus, if your wireless network doesn’t offer a strong signal, the wireless streaming will never be the best option. The other way to streaming video from your phone to TV is by an HDMI cable, and in some cases, an adapter.
 

How to connect an Android smartphone or tablet to TV?

Most Android mobile devices support streaming videos to an HDTV through Mobile High Definition Link, or MHL. In this case, if your HDTV happened to have MHL built in, all you need is a micro USB-to-HDMI cable.

The MHL Consortium publishes a partial listof MHL-supported devices on its website. If you don't see your mobile device listed, check with the manufacturer. Older TV HDMI ports don't include MHL, so you'll need an MHL-to-HDMI adapter to supply the power, such as Koopower’s $8.98 microUSB-to-HDMI MHL adapter. You may need to plug your device's charger into the adapter to provide extra power.

How to connect an Apple mobile device to TV?

Apple sells its Lightning Digital AV Adapter that can help you do that. Actually, it just likes any other HDMI adapter: on one end, there is a lightning plug and on the other end is an HDMI port. Then you only need an HDMI cable to go from the adapter to your TV’s HDMI port and the TV doesn’t even need to support MHL. However, Apple doesn’t sell an adapter for its older devices like iPhone 4/4S. As The $49 Lightning adapters work with all iPhones, iPads and iPod touches with the Lightning port. If you want to stream the video in your iPhone 4/4S to TV, Koopower’s $16.99 30-pin digital AV adapter will meet your demand.

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