when i connect my hdtv up to my laptop, as you'd expect, sound comes out of the hdtv. can i make it come out of the laptop seakers? fyi, it hasn't bothered me yet, but i want to use my headphones at night, and the tv is too far away to simply plug in the headphones to the tv, short of getting a long ass headphone cable
Do you mean HDMI? Whatever it is, there should be a way to change the default audio output. On Windows 7 go to the taskbar, find the speaker icon, right click and select Playback Devices.
its right there in your winblows audio settings