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dvd queery

  • 16-01-2009 7:20pm
    #1
    kopykat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72 ✭✭


    i just wanted to know is their a way of playing a dvd on my laptop and watching it on a television screen,is there a cable i could get and where could i get one if such cable exisis???cheers


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  • #2
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    It can be done. How to do it depends on the TV you have and the laptop you have. If you have a flatscreen TV it probably has a VGA port which you can just connect to the VGA port on the laptop with this

    If not then it depends on whether your TV has a SCART socket and if your laptop has a S-Video port. If so you could use an S-Video to Scart cable - for under a tenner in PC World.


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 14,344 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Depends on the TV/Laptop i think.

    My PC is relatively new, as is my TV, so all i needed was a HDMI-HDMI cable and i was grand (although i didn't know that until a member here -newbie2- informed me of it).


    So pretty much, just see what connections you have on your laptop/TV and set the TV up as a second monitor on your laptop. Open whatever media player you are using in the second screen and full-screen it.


    Power City are pretty affordable wire-wise in my opinion.


    I'm sure there are other people posting here who an offer you much better advice than i ever will be able to, but i just thought i'd post anyway. Does no harm. :)


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