Connecting my laptop to the tv

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hjrdee

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Quick question

I want to connect my Laptop to the tv and watch films saved on my laptop on the tv. My tv is about 6 or 7 years old and only has a big scart connection at the back of it. My laptop is about 3 months old so would have most modern connections I presume

Any ideas?

Thanks
 
your tv will need a pc / input connector and a tv that is 6-7 yrs old would not have one id say. you cant do it via scart
 
I disagree. You should be able to get an AV to SCART cable/adaptor or kit ([broken link removed] is just one example - not necessarily a specific purchase recommendation) depending on what AV output(s) your laptop has. What make and model is the laptop so we can tell what sort of outputs it has?
 
If your laptop has an s-video or a vga output, you can get it to connect up to the TV via the scart alright but it doesn't mean you'll get decent picture.
 
Joe Nonety said:
If your laptop has an s-video or a vga output, you can get it to connect up to the TV via the scart alright but it doesn't mean you'll get decent picture.
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Why not?
coola said:
how does this connect to the laptop
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What? The link I posted was about a kit that includes S-Video to SCART connectivity. If you Google or search eBay then I'm sure that you'll also find VGA to SCART connectors/adaptors.
 
yes. you will have the scart connection on the tv (hopefully) . will the laptop have an s-video connection, very very doubtful
 
Thanks for the replies, I'll post the specs of laptop later. I do know tho that it does have an s Video connection - 7 pin, not 4
 
coola said:
yes. you will have the scart connection on the tv (hopefully) . will the laptop have an s-video connection, very very doubtful
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Why not? Or some other AV out? The laptop is only 3 months old.

hjrdee said:
Thanks for the replies, I'll post the specs of laptop later. I do know tho that it does have an s Video connection - 7 pin, not 4
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So something like the kit I linked to earlier should allow you to do S-Video to SCART. Another option (the one that I use) is to use the front panel three RCA AV inputs on my VCR to route the signal into the TV from a laptop or digital camera etc. Basically there are usually ways and means. Even if you only had an RF/aerial/coax input on the TV you could probably do something!
 
Apart from the cable kit that I mentioned earlier wouldn't [broken link removed] and an S-Video cable do the trick?
 
Thanks ClubMan,

I guess its easier than I thought. I went to pcworld and spoke with them but they didn't really understand and said I may need a new telly to make it work....

However, as always askaboutmoney has more experts than your average store!! :D
 
I have a new laptop and wanted to connect to tv also.I bought a cable on Ebay for about a tenner.Its a 4 pin SVGA out from the laptop with a combined audio out from laptop.They included a scart adaptor which goes into TV.The connections into that are straight forward phono white and red for audio and yellow for picture.It works a treat although u have to tweak the resolution on the laptop to get a non-distorted picture-although I discovered just yesteday that windows vista has windows media centre which does this for u automatically.Anyway it works well.
 
If the movies are MPEG4 or DIVX you might get better results copying the files to a disc and playing them back using a cheap DIVX-compatible DVD player.
 
Technologist said:
If the movies are MPEG4 or DIVX you might get better results copying the files to a disc and playing them back using a cheap DIVX-compatible DVD player.
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Is there any single application that does this convertion?
Any ones I used caused the lip syncing to be off by a second or two. I've seen a guide to doing it on afterdawn.com but that required about 6 steps with 6 different applications.
 
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