Often on the back of the more expensive and newer big screen TVs there will be a monitor input. However, if there is not that, look to see if you have an s-video port on your laptop/computer which you can use to hook into the TV. In addition, you can use the headphone jack to connect to the audio-in port on your TV so it is like using your computer on your TV! I use the s-video setup all the time when I want to watch an episode like House that I have on my computer but do not want to spend the time to burn to DVD.