Had I wanted to insert an AV receiver into the mix, say to handle surround sound, I would need to do a bit of research first. This direct connection provided me full HD video and sent audio through my TV’s speakers.
In prepping for this post, I took two laptops and a netbook purchased in 2008, 20 (respectively), then in-turn connected all three of them to my Toshiba HDTV (a 2008 purchase) without any issues whatsoever.