Tips for connecting a PC to a TV

I'm not entirely sure which sub I should be posting this in, so I'll just drop it here under Hardware.

Is it actually possible to set up my PC with a TV via HDMI so they act as two separate displays? Basically, I want to have a movie playing on the TV while I'm simultaneously doing other things on my computer monitor—like browsing Reddit or hanging out on a forum, for example.

Yeah 😁

But it really comes down to how much you know about setting it up and what kind of GPU you're running—though I doubt you'll run into any issues 🙂

Right now, it’s basically just mirroring everything—whatever I’ve got running on my PC shows up on the TV too.
Can you walk me through how that actually works?

I'm running a GTX 1060, $533 😁 so it should be decent enough,

Go into your display settings and switch it to extended desktop instead of mirroring or whatever else you've got it on right now.

Brandon Bailey said:Just go into your display settings and switch from mirror mode to extended desktop, or whatever it's called.

Exactly what he's saying...

Here’s the breakdown
Windows 7
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976064

Windows XP
Windows XP Support