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| 1234834 | 2011-10-01 04:37:00 | Hi all I want to watch movies on our old(ish, 8year) tv and best would be over the toshiba satellite pro s500(vga) . My son connects and plays wii on it so I should be able to watch movies from a laptop? Would someone be able to tell me what cable/adapter I need to get for this? Thanks |
notechyet (4479) | ||
| 1234835 | 2011-10-01 05:08:00 | Assuming the TV supports only S-Video or Composite, and the laptop only outputs VGA, you need a VGA to S-Video converter, such as: www.trademe.co.nz My friend has one and it works well. They are pretty cheap though so I don't know how long it lasts. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1234836 | 2011-10-01 06:25:00 | Assuming the TV supports only Composite, and the laptop only outputs VGA I assume thats's what I got? 3222 So I need a VGA cable and I need a composite/S-Video cable, is that right? |
notechyet (4479) | ||
| 1234837 | 2011-10-01 06:36:00 | That one there is composite (Single yellow RCA plug) S-Video is a black one with 4 pins (Mini-DIN - same plug as a PS/2 keyboard though that has 6 pins) |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1234838 | 2011-10-01 06:41:00 | svideo plugs are usually on the back of tv's. | 8ftmetalhaed (14526) | ||
| 1234839 | 2011-10-01 06:41:00 | The (front/AV2) connection you have there is composite video (the lowest quality), you may have better options at the rear (AV1 and more?), take a photo of them. So I need a VGA cable and I need a composite/S-Video cable, is that right? No, you need 1 cable to adapt between VGA and whatever inputs you have. www.trademe.co.nz or similar. |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 1234840 | 2011-10-01 06:54:00 | Assuming the TV supports only S-Video or Composite, and the laptop only outputs VGA, you need a VGA to S-Video converter, such as: www.trademe.co.nz My friend has one and it works well. They are pretty cheap though so I don't know how long it lasts. This is what I have done, too mean to buy a new TV when the old one works perfectly well |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1234841 | 2011-10-01 08:29:00 | This is what I have done, too mean to buy a new TV when the old one works perfectly well Nothing wrong with that |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1234842 | 2011-10-01 17:44:00 | hi all thanks. here below the rear of the TV box. So would I have to connect to the AV1? The trademe link shows a very short cable. Are there any other ones available? Would we get low quality images on the TV due to those "old connections" ? 3223 |
notechyet (4479) | ||
| 1234843 | 2011-10-01 20:18:00 | No. Do NOT buy the cable feersumendjinn posted! They ONLY work if the laptop supports TV- THROUGH the VGA connector. They do NOT convert signal\format. Unless you know for sure your laptop does this, that cheaper adapter cable will NOT work. Normally you will need an actual converter device such as the one I linked to. However for either device, an extension cable can be used. Picture quality is never going to be better than a PC monitor (TV is low resolution) but for DVDs or gaming it would be fine. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
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