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Connecting laptop to TV

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  • 15-12-2005 3:39pm
    #1
    tinkerbell
    Registered Users Posts: 6,423 ✭✭✭


    How do I go about connecting my laptop up to the TV?

    I have all my videos that I've taken on my Fuji camera on the laptop, and it'd just be easier hooking it up to the TV rather than us all squashing up and gathering around the laptop to watch them.

    Oh and my laptop is a HP Pavilion ZD8000 series.

    Any help would be very very much appreciated :) Thanks in advance :)


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    #2
    ressem
    Registered Users Posts: 2,426 ✭✭✭ressem


    According to the HP website those laptops have an svideo port.

    So you've to look at your TV and check the connectors that it can take.
    1 or more of
    Scart, RCA, co-axial antenna connection

    Then look for an appropriate adapter. Perhaps HP provided an Svideo to RCA connector?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svideo
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_jack


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    #3
    smashingpumpkin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20 ✭smashingpumpkin


    Hi

    Ive exactly same question. I want to show photos on my TV from Laptop.

    My TV has RCA ports, so if I buy an RCA Jack, will this work?? My Laptop is a Dell Inspiron 9300.

    Thanx a mil


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    #4
    david
    Registered Users Posts: 3,684 ✭✭✭david


    Youre laptop should have an S-video out, so i'd say you could get a S-video > Single RCA cable to view them if youre tv doesnt have s-video in


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    ButtermilkJack
    Registered Users Posts: 632 ✭✭✭ButtermilkJack


    After much recommendation, I bought a cable from this crowd in the US. Very fast delivery, very competitive price, very happy customer! Less than a week and I had it in Dublin.

    Not great for working with laptop, ie: using as a replacement screen, (although maybe that's just my TV needing some tuning) but perfect for what you guys want. Watching movies etc.

    Well recommeded it!


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


    A word of warning - the vast majority of laptops have s-video out. A certain percentage of TV's have trouble with this when using a standard s-video to RCA cable. The only cable known to work is from the crowd ButtermilkJack mentioned.

    I went through four s-video cables before I got one from s-video.com that worked.


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