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Connecting to tv name of cable?

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  • 22-04-2007 11:07am
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    RAIN
    Registered Users Posts: 1,422 ✭✭✭


    I need a cable to run from my laptop to a lcd tv monitor for a presentation.Anyone know the name of the cable?Hmmh this is probly a very general question but even if someone has a link to a good site?that would be great.


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    formatman
    Registered Users Posts: 794 ✭✭✭formatman


    2 questions

    what model laptop and more importantly what outputs does it have

    then what inputs does the TV have ?


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    M450
    Registered Users Posts: 677 ✭✭✭M450


    hey,

    a bit more info is required!!
    over christmas i went to maplins in town, i think jervis st.
    i got my sister an s-video to scart cable, most laptops have an s-video out port and most TVs have quite a number of scart sockets...

    the only problem was the picture on the TV had no colour!!!
    I dont know what the reason for this was and actually never sorted it out because my sis had gone back to germany... :D

    DM


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    RAIN
    Registered Users Posts: 1,422 ✭✭✭RAIN


    Hey lads.
    Ya its a toshiba and it only has s-video ,usb and the one that looks like a scart with a screw at each side.Pretty basic stuff.Went to harvey normans but they werent much help they said the s-video would only run video onto the laptop but what M450s sister got is what i need so i mite check it out tomorow.


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    8T8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,757 ✭✭✭8T8


    The s-video port is almost certainly an output so ignore what the harvey normans guys said.

    Komplett sell s-video cables so this is what you need or try to find locally. Any place that sell cables for TV equipment should have an s-video cable try Argos, Maplins etc.


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    M450
    Registered Users Posts: 677 ✭✭✭M450


    the cable i got had both an s-video and 3.5mm (headphone) connectors which all went to the scart... connected fine, even though the headphones socket and s-video out port were on opposite sides of the laptop!!

    but i dont know why it failed to display the picture in colour on the tv... never actually followed it up!! sound was perfect...

    DM


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    Soundman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭Soundman


    M450 wrote:
    the cable i got had both an s-video and 3.5mm (headphone) connectors which all went to the scart... connected fine, even though the headphones socket and s-video out port were on opposite sides of the laptop!!

    but i dont know why it failed to display the picture in colour on the tv... never actually followed it up!! sound was perfect...

    DM

    Could have been a dodgy S-Video cable (it does happen even when new) or more likely the laptop was set up to output the video as NTSC as opposed to PAL-I format.


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


    Soundman wrote:
    Could have been a dodgy S-Video cable (it does happen even when new) or more likely the laptop was set up to output the video as NTSC as opposed to PAL-I format.

    That is most likely not the case, well not in my experience.

    I have posted many times on this very subject - it's to do with the way the cable is constructed. I went through five bloody cables before I got one from s-video.com that actually displayed a colour picture.

    No amount of changing settings nor driver updates worked - it was all down to the cable.


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