Laptop to TV connection

quagmire · 08-09-2005 1:24pm #1

Can anyone tell me what is the best way to go about connecting my laptop to my TV, so that I can watch divX's etc.
My laptop has a VGA port, no S-Video port I am affaid.

Any info is appreciated

digitaldeath · 08-09-2005 2:37pm

A VGA out will require something like a HDTV I'm afraid.

If you have compostite out you'll be okay - it isn't great but does the trick. Plug that into a scart connector and bring the audio outta the headphone jack into the scart too!

quagmire · 08-09-2005 3:57pm

What is composite out?

blorg · 08-09-2005 4:08pm

You need something like this but AFAIK they are stupidly expensive (a lot cheaper the other way around, unfortunately.)

blorg · 08-09-2005 4:10pm

quagmire wrote:

What is composite out?

Composite video out is generally a phono socket like the red and white ones that carry stereo audio with a hifi, although on laptops in particular can also be a headphone-style jack. Will generally be coloured yellow. Can connect to just about any TV, possibly needing a SCART adapter (very cheap.)

quagmire · 08-09-2005 4:42pm

There are two yellow phono sockets beside VGA port. So if I got a lead that connected to all three and on the other end had a scart connector to connect to the TV, this should work?

digitaldeath · 08-09-2005 4:53pm

Have you look at your laptop's manual by any chance?

quagmire · 08-09-2005 4:56pm

Yes, Its the first thing I did but it does not mention connecting it to a TV only to a monitor.

blorg · 08-09-2005 6:13pm

Do you have a digital camera? If so, send a picture of the port. Yellow phono = good. Two yellow phonos = peculiar, maybe not so good.

spartacus93 · 08-09-2005 8:22pm

2 Yellow? Doesn't sound right. Yellow and white ok, but 2 yellow is strange. Anyway make and model of laptop please so we can have a peek at a picture of it on the net. And taking a pic of it with a digital camera is a very good suggestion

quagmire · 08-09-2005 8:39pm

Sorry got colours wrong was in work at the time. There is a red and a green coloured socket beside the VGA port. (Red has a little pictureof a microphone beside it and green has a picture of a set of head phones)
No pics I'm affraid but model is Sony VGN-S4XP.

blorg · 09-09-2005 8:43am

Red and green are headphones and microphone I'm afraid, I don't think that laptop has any video out other than VGA. Composite/S-Video output is rarer and rarer these days on laptops as the most common previous use for it - presentations - is now catered for just with VGA (almost all projectors will have a VGA input.)

Karoma · 09-09-2005 7:58pm

it's a major shortcoming re: design of the (Otherwise nice) S4 series IMHO... it is VGA out only.

[ Spec: http://www.vaio-link.com/specifications/specifications.asp?l=en&category=0&serie=VGN-S&m=1870 ]

Laptop to TV connection

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