I don't know from experience, but I imagine a similar arrangement exists if you wanted to go directly from your Mac to the TV.
Lots of newer Macs come with built in HDMI output and there is a handy dandy Thunderbolt to HDMI adaptor, or Thunderbolt to VGA all of which generally work pretty well. There are also third party USB 3 video adaptors but I have no experience with them.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
