How to display a website on a TV screen

Last updated September 23, 2026

You can show a website on a TV through the TV's own browser, by casting it from a laptop, or with digital signage software that keeps the page on screen all day without anyone looking after it. Signage software has one catch: many large sites, from social networks to news sites, refuse to be shown inside another page, and on a screen those stay blank. Pages built to be embedded, such as public dashboards and status pages, usually work, and so does your own site if it allows embedding.

With Screenbird, for example, you paste the page's address into the Website app and push it to any paired screen. The setup form loads the page first, so in almost every case you know before it reaches the TV whether the site allows it. Once your screen is paired, that takes about two minutes.

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The end result, live on your TV.

What you need

  • A TV or monitor with an HDMI input
  • A media player: Amazon's Signage Stick and the Fire TV Stick 4K are the simplest plug-and-play options; smart TVs and Windows, Mac, or Linux devices work just as well
  • A Screenbird account (free trial, then $18 per screen per month)
  • The web address of the page you want to show, starting with https:// and open to anyone without a login

Can't I just use the TV's browser?

For a quick look, sure. For a page that has to stay on screen all day, the quick routes each give out in their own way:

  • The TV's own browser needs no extra hardware, but shows its address bar and menus, falls back to the home screen after a restart, and cannot be managed from anywhere else.

  • Casting from a laptop or phone shows any site you can open, but only while that device stays on, awake, and connected. Close the laptop and the screen goes dark.

  • A DIY kiosk (Raspberry Pi or mini-PC) runs unattended, but you build and maintain it yourself: no remote management, no scheduling, and nobody restarts it when it hangs on a Sunday.

Digital signage software exists for exactly this job: it shows the page full-screen without browser bars, lets you manage and schedule the screen from anywhere, and on a dedicated player like Amazon's Signage Stick, comes back on its own after a reboot or an outage. What it cannot do is show a site that forbids it, and the steps below show you how to spot that before it reaches the TV.

Step-by-step with Screenbird

For the full click-by-click walkthrough, see the Screenbird Knowledge Base.

1

Create your free account

Sign up for Screenbird in your browser. Nothing to install on your computer, and the trial starts right away.

2

Pair your screen

Install the Screenbird player on your TV or stick. It shows a 6-character pairing code. Enter that code in your dashboard to connect the screen.

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Add the Website app

In Files, click New and choose New app. Then pick Website from the app browser.

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Paste the page's address

Give the app a name you will recognize later, and paste the full address of the page, starting with https://. Copy it straight from your browser's address bar, so you get the exact page and not just the home page. In the same form you can set the zoom, so the page fits the screen, and switch on Auto refresh to have the screen reload the page.

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Check the preview

The setup form loads the page the way the screen does. If the page shows up, you are good to go. If the preview stays blank, the site most likely does not allow being shown inside another page, and the TV would stay blank too: try another page, or see the first question below.

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Send it to your screen

Click Send to screen, choose the screen, and the page appears within seconds, full-screen and without an address bar.

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The result

The page is now on your screen. A page that updates itself, like a news feed, a live status page, or a dashboard, stays current on its own.

Your own website

Your events page, news, or opening hours in the lobby, from the site you already keep up to date.

Status pages

A public status page for your systems or services on the wall in the office or the support room.

Public dashboards

A report or dashboard your tool can publish as a public, embeddable link.

Questions people ask

Almost always because the site does not allow itself to be shown inside another page. Site owners switch that off with a setting called X-Frame-Options or frame-ancestors, and a signage screen shows every page inside its player, so the page stays blank. It is common: when we checked 35 popular sites in September 2026, 24 of them blocked it. Nothing on the screen can get around it. Use another page, ask the site's owner to allow embedding, or put the content in a design or an image instead. Two other causes: the page needs a login, or the address starts with http:// instead of https://.
Paste the address into the Website app and look at the preview in the setup form. It loads the page the way the screen does, so in almost every case a page that appears there appears on the TV, and a blank preview means a blank screen.
No. A screen has nobody signed in, so a page behind a login stays blank. For your own documents and reports there are apps that connect your account instead, such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and Power BI. How to display Power BI on a TV
A page that updates itself, such as a news feed or a live dashboard, stays current without any help. In a playlist, the page loads fresh every time it comes around. For a page that only changes when it is reloaded, switch on Auto refresh in the Website app and set Refresh (min): the screen then reloads it at that interval, from 1 to 60 minutes, without a blank flash.
Yes. Set Zoom (%) in the Website app, and the page scales on the screen anywhere from 50 to 200 percent.
No. Browsers do not let one page scroll another site's page from the outside, so the screen shows the page as it loads. Put what matters at the top of the page, zoom out so more of it fits, or show several short pages one after the other in a playlist.
The field takes a web address, not code. If a site gives you an embed code, copy only the address inside it: the part between the quotes after src=, starting with https://.
Use the https:// address. Several players, including Android and Fire TV devices, refuse to load a plain http:// page inside the player, so it would stay blank. If a site has no https:// version, it cannot be shown.
A web page cannot be stored for offline playback. If the player is offline when the page is due to load, it shows a neutral Screenbird placeholder instead of a browser error. For a screen that has to keep running through outages, uploaded images, videos, and designs are stored on the player and keep playing.
Yes, using Split Screen. Divide the screen into zones and put the website in one of them, next to a clock, the weather, or your own slides.

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