Laptop to TV: Audio still heard from laptop, not tv speakers
 

This website is more helpful than a Google search sometimes! I had no idea how to even look this up!

I can easily just set my headphone jack to default, but once I plug in a mini into the laptop that connects to my TV, should it automatically override the laptop speakers?

Windows 7 Ultimate.

The most I've done with this is getting my parents' laptop to their TV at home. All I did was connect a 3.5mm jack from the headphone portion of the laptop to the 3.5mm jack on the TV and the sound was on the TV after that.

That's the beauty of an HDMI-out on a laptop. :lol:

Totally agree as that's how it always was for me too. Weird...I'm thinking it's something to do with my audio interface which when hooked to my TV, I am not using any longer as the default.

Maybe you plugged it into the microphone jack?

Grab a set of headphones and plug them into your laptop and see what happens. If you are still having the same problem then you either:

1. Have a broken headphone jack
2. Have some setting in windows that is messing up
3. Have it plugged into the microphone jack.

If you don't have the same problem, then the wire you are using to connect to your tv is either defective or the wrong wire.

If one set of headphones doesn't work, plug in 2. If still have problem, home audio not your game.