Although mobile devices have become so popular and critical important in our lives, TV sets are still irreplaceable in terms of casual entertainment. We can play almost any movie on a smartphone, tablet or laptop, but the ultimate movie watching experience brought by the big screen of a TV set is definitely something you can easily give up. Therefore, connecting laptop to TV sets becomes a necessary skill for everyone. If you don’t know how to connect your laptop with your Samsung TV, Keep reading as two different ways to connect a laptop and a Samsung TV will be introduced today.

Part 1: Connect laptop to Samsung smart TV with HDMI

The first approach for connecting your laptop and your Samsung TV is by using an HDMI cable. The HDMI approach is also the most popular, and probably the easiest way for everyone to connect any external display, including the Samsung TV, to a laptop. As long as your external display device has an HDMI port, which is true for almost all Samsung smart TV models, you can easily connect the display to your laptop within a couple of minutes by using a HDMI cable.

HDMI stands for High-Definition Multimedia Interface. It is a proprietary audio/video interface for transmitting uncompressed video data and compressed or uncompressed digital audio data from an HDMI-compliant source device, such as a display controller, to a compatible computer monitor, video projector, digital television, or digital audio device. It can transmit both video and audio information from your laptop to the Samsung smart TV. With that feature, you don’t need an extra audio cable to transmit the audio individually. As long as you have a dedicated HDMI cable, you can transmit the entire media stream from your laptop to the Samsung TV. The following is a simple instruction showing you how to connect laptop to Samsung smart TV with HDMI.

Step 1: Get an HDMI cable. HDMI cables are easy to acquire. You should be able to easily find one on the local electronic store. After acquiring the HDMI cable, connect one end of the cable to your laptop, then connect the other end to your Samsung smart TV.

Step 2: After properly connecting the laptop and the Samsung smart TV through the HDMI cable, open your computer, right click on your desktop and go to “Personalize”. On the personalize window, click “Display” to reveal display settings. Then you should be able to see the option to change the display monitor. Since you have already hooked up the laptop to your Samsung TV, you should be able to set the HDMI device, which is the Samsung TV, to be the display device.

Step 3: If you find there are some problems with the Samsung TV display, you can press the Windows logo key and P at the same time on your laptop, and choose the “Duplicate” mode on the “Project” panel. Up to now, you should be able to see everything on your laptop’s monitor with the big screen of your Samsung smart TV.

Part 2: Connect Samsung smart TV to laptop through Wi-Fi

Besides using an HDMI cable, another solution for you to connect your laptop to the Samsung smart TV is utilizing the Wi-Fi network. Before start trying to connect your laptop to the Samsung smart TV through Wi-Fi, you have to make sure that your Samsung TV does have a built-in DLNA receiver.

DLNA is short for Digital Living Network Alliance. It was founded by a group of PC and consumer electronics companies in June 2003 to develop and promote a set of interoperability guidelines for sharing digital media among multimedia devices under the auspices of a certification standard. With the DLNA support, you can easily share photos, music and movies from your laptop or smartphone to your TV.

Fortunately, as the leading manufacturer in the TV industry, Samsung has made sure that almost all its smart TV models support DLNA. But still, you need to make sure that your specific TV set has a DLNA receiver so that you can successfully connect your laptop to the TV through Wi-Fi.

Windows 10 gives you a pretty intuitive and easy way to connect external devices through Wi-Fi. Here is how to connect your laptop to Samsung smart TV through Wi-Fi under the Windows 10 operating system:

Step 1: Make sure that your laptop and your Samsung smart TV are connected to the same Wi-Fi network.
Step 2: On your Windows 10 laptop, click Start, then go to “Settings”. On the settings panel, Open the “Devices” window, and then chose the “Connected devices” tab from the menu on the left.
Step 3: After entering the “Connected devices” tab, click the “Add a device” button. Then there will be a wizard guiding you to add an external device. Make sure you choose your Samsung smart TV as the new device to be added. After the wizard finishes, just click on your TV, follow the configuration guide and you are set.

Part 3: Enjoy movies on laptop via Samsung TV screen

In the above we have introduced two different ways to connect your laptop to your Samsung smart TV. Both of there approaches should provide you a pretty decent connection. After connecting your laptop to the TV with either approach, you can start playing a movie on your laptop and enjoy it from your TV. In order to make sure the movie has a good playback performance on the big screen of a Samsung TV, it’s suggested that you use a powerful media player like Leawo Blu-ray Player to play the movie on your laptop.

Leawo Blu-ray Player is a 100% free media player application. It has a great user interface, a simple software design and a stable digital video, Blu-ray or DVD playback performance. Leawo Blu-ray Player contains all media playback solutions you need for your leisure entertainment, including not only the support for all kinds of Blu-ray material, but also for DVD, CD, HD (4K), MPEG, WMV and 180+ other video and audio formats. With advanced image and audio processing technology, Leawo Blu-ray Player assures you to have the best movie watching enjoyment even on the big screen of a Samsung smart TV.

What’s more impressive about Leawo Blu-ray Player is that, the player can play Blu-ray and DVD across region, and even facing the encrypted Blu-ray or DVD discs, it can also handle with ease. With other practical features like Virtual remote controller, Useful power manager, Custom skin / language / background, Snap screenshots and the Blu-ray to MKV conversion function in the premium version, Leawo Blu-ray Player can definitely be one of the best choices you can have for your multimedia enjoyment. Now let me show you how to use Leawo Blu-ray Player to play a movie material and customize the movie playback performance.

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Step 1: Download and install Leawo Blu-ray Player on your laptop. Since Leawo Blu-ray Player provides both Windows and Mac OS version, you need to download the right version of Leawo Blu-ray Player according to your laptop’s operating system.

Step 2: Launch Leawo Blu-ray Player, then click the green “Open File” button to browse and import your movie file into the player application. If you are playing a disc, just insert your disc into your CD-ROM and then click the button labeled by the name of your CD-ROM to import the movie. After importing, the file should start to play immediately.

Step 3: You can also open your media files by directly double clicking the video file after associating the FLV video format with Leawo Blu-ray Player. To associate a media format, hit the short key “F5” to open the settings menu of Leawo Blu-ray Player, then navigate to the “File Associations” tab. Make sure all of the common media formats are checked so that you can open these files directly next time. It’s also suggested that you change the default media player of your computer and set Leawo Blu-ray Player as the default player application for your convenience.

Step 4: Leawo Blu-ray Player provides various customization settings. While you are playing any media file, you can move your mouse to the upper left corner of the video to reveal the quick setting buttons. With the corresponding button, you can freely change settings for subtitle, video, audio and more performances. You can also press the hotkey “F5” to call out the settings window mentioned above and change more customization settings.

Part 4: Conclusion

Today we have provided the detailed guides of how to connect your laptop to your Samsung smart TV with two different methods: through HDMI, and through Wi-Fi. Both of the methods are easy to operate and can provide a stable connection. After connecting your laptop and your Samsung TV, it’s suggested that you use a free but powerful player application like Leawo Blu-ray Player to make sure you have a good video watching experience on the big screen of your Samsung TV. With the powerful media playback ability provided by Leawo Blu-ray Player, I’m sure you will have a great time with your movie and enjoy whatever you are watching on the Samsung TV.