How to view movies on Laptop on HDTV
 

I want to connect my laptop to my HDTV. How do I do that?

I have a VGA out and S-Video out on the Laptop.

If you know the websites/stores where I can get the right connectors,
do let me know.

Thanks.

How to view movies on Laptop on HDTV
 

PGPS wrote:
I want to connect my laptop to my HDTV. How do I do that?

I have a VGA out and S-Video out on the Laptop.

If you know the websites/stores where I can get the right connectors,
do let me know.

Thanks.


If your HDTV has VGA or S-Video inputs you should have no problems. You
can find cables at many places, like Radio Shack, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, etc.

How to view movies on Laptop on HDTV
 

On Mar 20, 2:21 pm, Bob Nielsen wrote:
PGPS wrote:
I want to connect my laptop to my HDTV. How do I do that?

I have a VGA out and S-Video out on the Laptop.

If you know the websites/stores where I can get the right connectors,
do let me know.

Thanks.

If your HDTV has VGA or S-Video inputs you should have no problems. You
can find cables at many places, like Radio Shack, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, etc.

Thanks, but what's the best way I could do it, if I want to upconvert
the Video playing on my Laptop (DVD) to 720/1080p?

S-Video I think doesn' t help to upconvert.
Would a VGA cable work?, ie, is it used for high quality?
Is there a VGA to Component video cable ??

Thanks.

How to view movies on Laptop on HDTV
 

"PGPS" wrote in message
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On Mar 20, 2:21 pm, Bob Nielsen wrote:
PGPS wrote:
I want to connect my laptop to my HDTV. How do I do that?

I have a VGA out and S-Video out on the Laptop.

If you know the websites/stores where I can get the right connectors,
do let me know.

Thanks.

If your HDTV has VGA or S-Video inputs you should have no problems. You
can find cables at many places, like Radio Shack, Wal-Mart, Best Buy,
etc.

Thanks, but what's the best way I could do it, if I want to upconvert
the Video playing on my Laptop (DVD) to 720/1080p?

S-Video I think doesn' t help to upconvert.
Would a VGA cable work?, ie, is it used for high quality?
Is there a VGA to Component video cable ??

Thanks.



There are VGA to Component converters. SVGA may support HD (over 720i) if
the HDTV has a SVGA input. Then there are also usb external devices that
can convert your laptop's output to whatever cable you want to use on the
HDTV. But...what's inside the laptop? Can it produce an HD signal to the
cable you use? What kind of graphics card is it using (Not a real card of
course).

Nate

How to view movies on Laptop on HDTV
 

PGPS wrote:
On Mar 20, 2:21 pm, Bob Nielsen wrote:
PGPS wrote:
I want to connect my laptop to my HDTV. How do I do that?
I have a VGA out and S-Video out on the Laptop.
If you know the websites/stores where I can get the right connectors,
do let me know.
Thanks.
If your HDTV has VGA or S-Video inputs you should have no problems. You
can find cables at many places, like Radio Shack, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, etc.

Thanks, but what's the best way I could do it, if I want to upconvert
the Video playing on my Laptop (DVD) to 720/1080p?

S-Video I think doesn' t help to upconvert.
Would a VGA cable work?, ie, is it used for high quality?
Is there a VGA to Component video cable ??

The DVD is 480p, so it would have to be upconverted somewhere. The HDTV
might do as good a job as anything else. VGA is 480 pixels vertically.

How to view movies on Laptop on HDTV
 

On Mar 20, 11:49 am, "PGPS" wrote:
On Mar 20, 2:21 pm, Bob Nielsen wrote:

PGPS wrote:
I want to connect my laptop to my HDTV. How do I do that?

I have a VGA out and S-Video out on the Laptop.

If you know the websites/stores where I can get the right connectors,
do let me know.

Thanks.

If your HDTV has VGA or S-Video inputs you should have no problems. You
can find cables at many places, like Radio Shack, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, etc.

Thanks, but what's the best way I could do it, if I want to upconvert
the Video playing on my Laptop (DVD) to 720/1080p?

S-Video I think doesn' t help to upconvert.
Would a VGA cable work?, ie, is it used for high quality?
Is there a VGA to Component video cable ??

Thanks.

S-video is limited to standard def only. It would be a pretty lame
laptop that did _not_ output better than 640x480 VGA.. Why put an
external monitor on the laptop if its crippled to vanilla VGA?

Initially I used VGA out of my HTPC for the first couple of months.
Then I went to an ATI 9600 with DVI out. The DVI and VGA were both the
same resolution (1280x720) With the VGA I could see a trace of
smearing on vertical lines from low grade cable, but flawless with
DVI. BTW, I'm a video engineer by trade and to me a 'trace' would be
un-noticeable to most folks unless pointed out. Keeping the cable
short will minimize the degradation.

VGA to component is not hard but I don't think it can be done with
passive mixing I.E it needs power.

GG