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01-13-2009, 03:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: PA. | | | Calling all laptop users.
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Anyone have a connection from your laptop to a tv as a monitor? Is there such a connection? Help?
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01-13-2009, 04:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Newark, NJ | | | depends on what outputs your lappy has and what inputs your TV has.
My laptop has a digital monitor out and my TV has an analog monitor in...so with the right cable I can do it.
Some also have S-video out/in |
01-13-2009, 04:04 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Lincolnshire, UK | | | If you've got a hd laptop you can do it with hdmi as well, if you've got a hdtv with hdmi that is. |
01-13-2009, 04:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: PA. | | | i have the standard monitor out. My tv has rca inputs and an av jack in.
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01-13-2009, 04:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Modesto, CA | | | Goto to best buy/walmart/radio shack and they should have a converter box. I still have one from my old tv, used to watch Divx movies on it.
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01-13-2009, 04:24 PM
|  | Funkify your Life | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Bucket, RI. | | If the monitor out is DVI and the RCA jacks are component (Red, blue and green) you should be able to use something like this: http://www.monoprice.com/products/pr...seq=1&format=2
EDIT:
Maybe not this particular adaptor. It says it will only work on compatible ATI graphics cards.
Personally I use a cable with a DVI on one end and a HDMI on the other. To get audio I have an optical output on the sound card that goes to my receiver.
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01-13-2009, 04:27 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Kohlman Bassworks | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Hampton Roads, Virginia | | | Yes. Mine has a HDMI connection. |
01-13-2009, 04:31 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | Depends on the laptop and the TV. My Macbook has a Mini-DVI out, my TV has a VGA in. I use a Mini-DVI to VGA adapter and a cable.
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01-13-2009, 05:00 PM
| | Son, I am disappoint. | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Gig Harbor, Washington | | | I've got HDMI and VGA on mine, i might try HDMI later on our plasma screen.
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01-13-2009, 05:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Ampeg SVT  ............i might try HDMI later on our plasma screen. | Surfing TB on a 50" plasma is sweet!
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01-13-2009, 05:21 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: santa fe new mexico | | | vga cable is the name for it and your tv needs a vga in |
01-13-2009, 05:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia | | | Yeah, it's an s-video cable. Your laptop either has it or it doesn't. It looks like a round port (like a ps-2(mouse/keyboard)), but bigger. |
01-13-2009, 05:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Belfast, Ireland | | | Anything wrong with using an s-video/vga - rca/scart and just connecting them up?
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01-13-2009, 05:52 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | You can buy an adapter to convert VGA to NTSC but the picture is not exactly pristine. I suggest buying a converter where you can return it if the picture doesn't meet your expectations.
Audio is easy.
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01-13-2009, 05:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Wantagh, New York | | | VGA or HDMI are your only good options without spending a ton of money on converters and other stuff.
S-Video is my opinion is garbage and useless. |
01-13-2009, 07:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | If you use a converter to change VGA to NTSC, IMO you won't get quality as good as S-Video.
Anything is POSSIBLE - but how good the picture will be depends on the connections available on each end. It would be good for the OP to do more homework online.
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01-13-2009, 07:38 PM
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Originally Posted by MJ5150 Surfing TB on a 50" plasma is sweet!
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01-13-2009, 08:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: PA. | | | i have a VGA out
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01-13-2009, 08:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: West Side SA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Atoz +1. I'm doing it right now. | yeah, whatever - 1/32 of the screen is TB and the rest is pRon.
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01-14-2009, 04:00 AM
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Originally Posted by MJ5150 Surfing TB on a 50" plasma is sweet!
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