How to connect Macbook to HDTV

Hello Mac community,
When i first bought my macbook back in late 2011 it came with OSX Lion already installed. I bought an hdmi cord and a thunderbolt attachment cord (idk what its actually called but the hdmi cord goes into the smaller one which in turn plugs into my macbook) and would connect it to my HDTV and run movies and music etc through my computer onto the tv. I had no problems with it until i upgraded to OSX Mavericks and yeah no more explaining needed. After that it switched to this new 'airplay' thing which requires an apple tv i assume? anyway i saved all my important info and restored to factory settings and installed lion back to it. however, for some reason i am still unable to stream ANYTHING to the hdtv. It still displays airplay (airplay devices not detected) or something to that nature and will not register my hdtv as even being connected. its alittle frustrating to say the least. is there anyway to fix this because it used to work perfectly fine until the upgrade.
thanks for your help and for reading this long post.
p.s. i do have osx mountain lion now installed which i used to also stream from. if that helps at all?

Your postscript prompts me to ask: When you boot from that Mountain Lion installation instead of Mavericks, does the connection still work there? If it now fails on Mountain Lion, suspect a hardware problem instead of a Mavericks problem.
I think Mavericks should still support a display through the MDP/TB-to-HDMI adapter/cable alongside any AirPlay options. What brand is the adapter?

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