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Watching your laptor on your tv

  • 21-02-2007 10:23am
    #1
    hybie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 104 ✭✭


    I've got a question bout watching your laptop on your tv...

    I've got a VGA cable and with that i can watch my laptop on a new 15" tv that i have that has a vga connection.

    Now I want to watch it on a bigger tv that i have but its fairly old...it has rca sockets but not scart or vga. I've a scart to rca adaptor and i was told by friends that if i got a got a scart-vga adaptor and connect all three, it should work.

    So basically it would work...laptop vga to vga to vga-scart adaptor to scart-rca adaptor.

    Would it work?


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  • #2
    ZENER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,163 ✭✭✭ZENER


    If you give us the model of laptop and TV we could probably help more.

    For now though, the VGA output from any computer uses a signal that is incompatible with a standard TV set unless (as you've discovered) the set has a VGA connector as many modern LCD/Plasma TVs have.

    However most laptops nowadays do offer some form of connectivity in the shape of a CVBS (composite - yellow RCA Phono connector) or S-Video (5 pin mini-din connector). Perhaps the laptop has one of these, as I said if you give us it's make/model we can offer more advice.

    I have never seen a VGA to SCART adaptor and doubt it would work with the older TV you describe anyway.

    ZEN


  • #3
    hybie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 104 ✭✭hybie


    Thanks...it's a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo L1300. It has a 7-pin s-video connector and a VGA and that's it.

    Yeah I asked around yesterday and looked on ebay and couldn't see a VGA-Scart adaptor or cable. I did see on ebay a VGA-RCA cable but it said something about s-video as well. At the back of my tv I have no red socket just yellow and white for audio and visual.

    That works fine with my PS2 where i have three cables, I just have no socket to put the red into but it works away because I think red and white are basically the same.


  • #4
    ZENER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,163 ✭✭✭ZENER


    If you bought the laptop new it probably came with an s-video to composite video connector, do you recall seeing it in the packaging ?

    I think it's also possible to buy this adaptor. The bottom of this page shows what you need. This site also gives you an idea.

    As for the red, white and yellow connectors from the PS2, the red and white are the audio left and right channels while the video comes from the yellow plug.

    ZEN


  • #5
    $ausage$
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 691 ✭✭✭$ausage$


    Hey folks!

    I have a question kind of like yours.

    I want to connect my 42" Plasma to a 17" TFT using scart to vga.

    Am I crazy or will a starrd vga to scart do ok?

    any info would be great !

    Cheers!

    1Love

    Jonny


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