Psp Tv

William Gates

Hi guys, bit of help please.

I'm thinking of getting a PSP lite and would be very interested in the ability to play films etc from the PSP onto my TV.

But what I'm not sure of is if my TV is compatible and/or how to check if it is.

The TV is a Daewoo (DTP-28A8GB), prob about 5 years old.

What I've managed to find so far is.......

What cables are required for TV and video output?

If you have a progressive-scan enabled TV, you will need a Component cable. The Component cable supports all PSP content.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Any help would be much appreciated.
If you have an interlace-scan TV, you will need an AV or Composite cable. The Composite cable supports all PSP content, with the exception of game content.


Sorry, but that's double dutch to me so I'm still not too sure what sort of cables I would need to get.

William Gates

OK, I also found this from the Sony site........


Output is in NTSC video format, so if your TV does not support this, no picture will be displayed

So how do I find out if my TV output is in this NTSC video format?

Dman001

Does your tv have a yellow, white and red input?

William Gates

Yes it does.

ongarite

The Slim output is component only and progressive scan at that, the PSP Slim only outputs a 480p TV signal.
Only anyway good for a HD compatible TV really, an old Euro SCART TV won't work.

William Gates

OK thanks, so there's no way that it will work on my current tv, is that right?

ongarite

Correct.

William Gates

Cheers for the info. That's a pity.

Similarily, is it therefore also not possible to connect my laptop (Dell Inspiron 9400) to the same TV in order to play movies that I have on my latop on the TV?

ongarite

What cables are required for TV and video output?

If you have a progressive-scan enabled TV, you will need a Component cable. The Component cable supports all PSP content.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Any help would be much appreciated.
If you have an interlace-scan TV, you will need an AV or Composite cable. The Composite cable supports all PSP content, with the exception of game content.

Actually reading that again if you can find a PSP Slim AV cable you can watch video output only to your TV if it has AV connector (red, white, yellow). Quality will be pretty poor. No PSP game output.

William Gates

Cool, thanks for the advice Ongarite, I don't have much of a clue about these things. It's only for movies etc I want it for, not games so that should be OK.

What about playing movies from my laptop onto my TV, do you know if that is possible and if so how?

ongarite

You do now that the PSP doesn't play AVI or WMV video files, only plays MP4 files. Any stuff you may have aquired elsewhere will have to be converted first from PC to PSP then output to TV.

Take any queries about laptop to computer hardware or laptop forum.

William Gates

Will do thanks, is it a big job to convert them?

ongarite

Google Xvid4PSP or PSPVideo9.

GothPunk

ongarite wrote: »

Actually reading that again if you can find a PSP Slim AV cable you can watch video output only to your TV if it has AV connector (red, white, yellow). Quality will be pretty poor. No PSP game output.

Well I'm using the AV cable and a Scart convertor, and you're wrong about the quality. Most UMD movies are encoded at 720p (the same as DVD) so the quality is great. Although converting your own videos to a 720p MP4 file on your PSP could take some time. Especially if your PC/Laptop is a bit slow.

ongarite

UMD movies are 480p, anything above this would be a waste of pixels and space on UMD.
With CFW you can play MP4 in this resolution also.

animaX

William Gates wrote: »

Cheers for the info. That's a pity.

Similarily, is it therefore also not possible to connect my laptop (Dell Inspiron 9400) to the same TV in order to play movies that I have on my latop on the TV?

I bought the composite cable and hooked it up to my tv and it comes out in black and white!! Tv does not support NTSC. Sony are such retards.

As for the laptop, it is possible if you have an s-video output on the laptop (thats how i hook it up to my tv)

William Gates

Animax, any chance u could explain to me how the laptop to scart tv works?

My laptop has s-video out.

I've been to Malpins and they gave me....

1. A lead which connects the s-video on my laptop to the scart on the TV.

2. A lead with a red/white/yellow jacks on both ends. One side goes into the lead (connector) above and the other into the front of the TV.

That's as far as I've got, haven't been able to get anything working yet.

animaX

Ok, its off topic but what the hell! Here's how i did it, its a bit messy and the solution is not s-video quality but it works.
First, note that on my laptop i have to press ctrl+alt+F2 (NOT fn+F8) in order to transfer the video to tv (and ctrl+alt+F3 to return to laptop). I dont know if its the same for your laptop. Try ctrl+alt+F2 with the set-up that maplins gave you. Note also that you can change your 2nd-screen settings by going to the display settings in the control panel. Go to the setting tab and rightclick on screen number two. If it still doesnt work then this should:

First of all you need an audio cable like this:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?ModuleNo=31700&doy=13m11
This will run from your headphone socket on your laptop.

Then you need some sort of s-video cable like this:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?ModuleNo=220482&doy=13m11
A 4-pin cable will do, even though your laptop probably has a 7-pin connection.

Then you need to turn it all into a scart using something like this:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?ModuleNo=13372&doy=13m11

Unfortunately, when i did this the picture ended up in black and white (i dont know if that always happens or if it was an issue with my tv). To get over the black and white issue i did this:

You need an s-video to composite converter like this:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?ModuleNo=28733&doy=13m11

Then you need a phono lead like this:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?ModuleNo=9619&doy=13m11
to connect the converter to the yellow input in this:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?ModuleNo=13372&doy=13m11

So in total you have:

For video: s-video to converter, then from converter to yellow input

For audio: headphone socket to red&white inputs

Then it should work! Its messy but its worth it to be able to play any video file on tv!