Laptop to TV Cable

PGL

does anyone know if i can buy a cable which can connect my laptop to the TV? The TV is about 4 years old so the only connections are two SCART ports at the back and the yellow, white and red connectors at the front.

cheers

calex71

PGL wrote: »

does anyone know if i can buy a cable which can connect my laptop to the TV? The TV is about 4 years old so the only connections are two SCART ports at the back and the yellow, white and red connectors at the front.

cheers

what connections are on ur laptop?

Paul Tergat

I was recommended this one by someone in Bargain Alerts, came pretty quickly and is a snip at $2.50 with free shipping. Works very well - I have an older laptop and i assume yours too works with S-video cables

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.4723~r.32743617

Umiq88

Theres two possibilites

To watch you laptop on the tv screen
you will need the cable already shown or something similar if you dont have an svideo port on the laptop then you will need a vga to composite video converter on ebay there around 20e

To watch the tv screen on the laptop you will need a composite video to usb device again on ebay for around 10e and quaility is pretty decent recorded the grand slam match and quaility is pretty good.

PGL

thanks for your replies guys. I have a Toshiba A60 which is about 5 years old. It has a 4 pin S-Video jack, so the cable on the deal extreme website looks like it will do the job for me.

cheers

PGL

the cable arrived in the post this morning. when everything is connected up I am getting a blank screen (with no sound) on my TV. I have toggled the active display device button on the keyboard but no joy.

can anyone advise me on how to resolve this?

cheers

LovetohateTV

Press function F5 or F6 to switch the picture onto the tv.

Thats the way it work swith both of my laptops when i watch movies from my laptop onto my TV.

HOLD DOWN FUCT KEY AND PRESS F5 OR F6

PGL

I have used the Function Key + F5 (active display device changer) but no joy...... The message "No Video Input" appears on the TV screen. I have also restarted the laptop, while connected to the TV but that hasn't worked either.

Would the solution be to get a SCART adaptor, to which I could connect the red, yellow and white cables?

does anyone else have a solution?

cheers

LovetohateTV wrote: »

Press function F5 or F6 to switch the picture onto the tv.

Thats the way it work swith both of my laptops when i watch movies from my laptop onto my TV.

HOLD DOWN FUCT KEY AND PRESS F5 OR F6

ColonelCarnage

I am sure you must have already done this but I will say it anyways.....but is the right source for the cable selected on the television?

PGL

its a fair question, but yes the right source has been selected unfortunately...

ColonelCarnage wrote: »

I am sure you must have already done this but I will say it anyways.....but is the right source for the cable selected on the television?

PGL

any more suggestions folks?

gamer

theres a free prog you downoad, cant remeber the name ,search boards.ie tech aptop to tv,i post bac ater ,it sets up tv output for pal tv,europe, tv resotion,etc try set res to pal tv res ,go to dispay propertys advanced ,dispay 2,output to tv,pal b. i thin its 480x576.sdtv will not accept 1024x768,google pc to tv resolution.it works fine on my toshiba p4 cpu laptop.

gamer

theres a free prog you downoad, cant remeber the name ,search boards.ie tech aptop to tv,i post bac ater ,it sets up tv output for pal tv,europe, tv resotion,etc try set res to pal tv res ,go to dispay propertys advanced ,dispay 2,output to tv,pal b. i think its 480x576.sdtv will not accept 1024x768,google pc to tv resolution.it works fine on my toshiba p4 cpu laptop.
press fn key plus key with the square tv symbol to output signa to tv,you need to output standard pa tv resoution,otherwise you, get blank screen,press av av av av,to cyce thru tv inputs.

gamer

download powerstrip proram,install it,reboot pc, RIGHTCLIK DESKTOP,click display adaptor advanced ,options,select tv out,pal b, SET resolution to 720x576 .there should be 2 screen icons,clik display 2,set to tv mode, then press fn plus f5 ,or fkey that has a tv icon,square.google powerstrip download.

cute girl

yes you can buy a scart to scart cable in any electrial shop ,ie powercity comets,any high street shop,just tell them what your doing

cute girl

PGL wrote: »

the cable arrived in the post this morning. when everything is connected up I am getting a blank screen (with no sound) on my TV. I have toggled the active display device button on the keyboard but no joy.

can anyone advise me on how to resolve this?

cheers

you need to put your tv into av mode,then on pc rightclick you will see a box with display properties,click on setting,number 1 and 2 will come up ,click on 2 and bottom of box you will see extend my windows ,click on that and ok it,you will see on tv then that its extended from your pc

gamer

buy single svideo cable, plug in to front tv ,rca yellow, red,blue is sound in, scart unit,has a svideo, sound 2 r,,l, 3inputs, video is ALWAYS yellow, set signal to scart IN,SWITCH IN, plug cables into unit, plug scart unit into tv, turn on laptop, THEN turn on the tv LAST.press av 4 times on remote,
go to grahics propertys advanced,icon,screen 2,display 2,set to tv,d1 is laptop screen.res MUST BE 720X576 PAL B,EUROPE, I,M ASSUNIMG TV IS NOT a hdtv.peats svideo,cable,2euro,scart input unit size 3x3inch approx, cost 4euro .
GOOGLE SVIDEO CONNECT pc to tv.4 a diagram,info.
on 3 laptops i had,i had to install POWERSTRIP,OTHERWISE screen is bw or blank.
USE MUST use EXACT PAL TV RESOLUTION .LOW RESOLUTION,TVS DONT TAKE 1024PIXELS.GO TO http://www.svideo.com/compaq1700.html ,MAYBE YOU COULD BUY A an svideo to scart cable in peats,or maplins.
LOOK 4 key fn with a tv icon,with a small icon, go2 toshiba com support, dl manual,for the laptop, read pc tp tv display.the pc res must be perfect EXACTLY 720X576 to get a good picture, ps prog allows you to setup up CUSTOM PAL TV low resolution mode, its the only program that can do do that ,on my laptop i have to use it if i wanna use a tv sdtv.

PGL

guys

thanks for your response, but unfortunately I am still not having any luck with this...... i am at my wits end!

gamer

plug pc svideo out into, av in of vcr or dvdrecorder,set vcr,dvd to AV ,or l1
chanel,then tv remote press av av av av, after connecting vcr ,dvd to tv via scart 1,av1.
I,M assuming you have powerstrip installed.
what pc have you,eg dell 520x ,post model,name here.svideo on de tv maybe faulty,maybe theres a special button on tv 4 svideo in.

the_syco

gamer wrote: »

download powerstrip proram

Second this: it's the dogs bo||ox. Once installed, the ATI program saw my TV (TV is about 10 years old, I'd say), and I was able to view my stuff on it.

gamer

DOWNLOAD ,riva tuner this may help in tuning setting s output modes for your graphics card,
on winxp, i had 3 laptops,i had to get POWERSTRIP installed inorder to get the res DOWN to sdtv pal,576 ,otherwise the picture was crap ,RES WAS TOO high for sdtv ,depends what card you have,what grahics driver software is installed, on VISTA notebooks theres is
USUALLY proper graphics drivers installed, whereas you just go to graphics propertys set tv output on,set res 720x576.press fn plus tv f5
NOT every1 wants to run vista ,eg on a p4 laptop with 1gig ram, winxp is twice as fast ,vistas designed for dual core cpus ,ideally with 2gig ram .
MY PC is dual core turon x2 1,5 ghz , i still run xp cos its faster,it should not be
necessary to run ps on a vista pc unless you wanna setup very specific custom
res like 700x400 ,ps has a number of unique functions,its not just 4 tv outputpost back here laptop model eg toshiba 510x ,graphics card type,eg geforce 250.

nizarol

hi guys, I followed extend to tv instructions and it worked (Aldi selling cable kit for 8.99). however when I booted up the next day to watch a movie a pop up screen asked me to select type of output (I think), I selected Line Output and now I still have image on tv but black&white and no sound. Stupid of me I know, normally I just close these windows. Any advice?