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Laptop to TV connection

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  • 27-03-2006 1:49pm
    #1
    ublinia2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 114 ✭✭


    I wish to connect a laptop to a tv for the purpose of using the bigger screen to display powerpoint or also to show a DVD?

    How can I do this and what do I need - cables etc? How much do all these cost?


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    JackieChan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭JackieChan


    Ublinia,
    You may an s-video connection on your laptop already.It would be a small circular connection, usually with an icon of a tv with an aerial beside it.
    The cables can be got from PC World,Peats,Maplin,etc...


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    ublinia2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 114 ✭✭ublinia2


    How much would the cable cost and would every tv be able to accept the other end of the cable?


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    JackieChan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭JackieChan


    You can get different connectors on the other end of the s-video.
    You can have another s-video connector which many TVs use.
    Link: http://www.peats.com/cgi-bin/shop/db.cgi?view=1&id=5289&type=6&path=11x153x307
    You can also have a video phono connector.
    Also, you will need to sent the audio seperately.
    http://www.peats.com/cgi-bin/shop/db.cgi?view=1&id=6385&type=6&path=11x153x452
    Very easy using a 2 phono cables and an adaptor to fit your speaker output on your laptop
    http://www.peats.com/cgi-bin/shop/db.cgi?view=1&id=9079&type=6&sid=1343515x0


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    William Gates
    Registered Users Posts: 208 ✭✭William Gates


    So once you have s-video connection on your laptop and those cables is that all you need or does the TV have to have some certain devices?


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    Naked Lepper
    Registered Users Posts: 1,514 ✭✭✭Naked Lepper


    I got the video s a while back
    connected it all up

    tv didnt have a video s port so i connected it to the back of a SCART plug which had a video s input (this came with the cable) and plugged it into one of the scarts..

    what i ended up with was a fuzzy black and white image on my tv and also videos didnt play (VLC, WMP etc came up as a black box on the screen)


    ended up giving up on it and the 35 euros i spent in dixons was a bit of a waste i suppouse!


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    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    Naked Lepper wrote:
    what i ended up with was a fuzzy black and white image on my tv and also videos didnt play (VLC, WMP etc came up as a black box on the screen)

    Do a search - I have posted many times on this very topic, complete with the solution.

    Bottom line - buy a cable from s-video.com.


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