There are many ways to connect your non-smart TV to the internet. You can mirror content from your laptop or smartphone by casting or using an HDMI cable. You can use a WiFi adapter for the non-smart TV. Let’s look at some options.
Don’t worry if your television is not a smart TV and does not have built-in WiFi. If it has an HDMI port, there are many simple and affordable ways to convert it to a smart TV that can connect to WiFi without issue.
1. Purchase a streaming device.
This is the best option to convert a non-smart TV to a smart TV. A streaming device has an operating system and comes with an in-built wifi adapter to connect to the internet.
These streaming devices also come with preinstalled streaming apps like Netflix, YouTube, etc. Just plug them into the HDMI port of your TV.
There are many popular streaming devices available, like Google Chromecast, Roku, and the Amazon Fire TV Stick. To learn more about them, go to the Best WiFi TV Sticks page.
2. Use an HDMI cable
If you are not a regular viewer of streaming apps, then you can also consider an HDMI cable. You can connect an HDMI cable to the laptop to mirror everything on the TV screen.
Almost every laptop comes with an HMDI port. So this is a cheaper and easier solution to enable a non-smart TV to connect to the internet.
For phones, special Miracast devices that mirror the phone screen to the TV are required, or an HDMI cable and a converter. To be honest, connecting an HDMI cable to the phone is not a reliable and easy method. So I will only suggest this method for connecting to your laptop.
3. Mini PC Sticks
A mini PC stick is a portable microcomputer on a stick. This way, you can convert your non-smart TV to a PC. These micro-PCs come with preinstalled Linux or Windows.
It also includes an in-built WiFi adapter for connecting to a Wi-Fi network. Although it is a bit more costly than the above-mentioned methods, you can also consider it.
4. Gaming consoles
If you already own a gaming console, then you can connect a TV to the internet using these consoles. Almost all gaming consoles, such as the XBox and PlayStation, include everything you need to connect your TV to WiFi. And you can download your streaming apps to access the streaming services over WiFi.
