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| 419945 | 2006-01-11 01:00:00 | I'm in the process of hooking my computer up to my TV. The chap at Harvey Norman tells me I need an S video cable that goes from my video card to TV and a sound cable that goes from my sound out to the yellow plug hole on the TV. Is this correct? Not that I don't trust Harvey's,, but... With this set up all I do is put a DVD in it's tray and then sit back and watch the movie on my TV. Correct???? |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 419946 | 2006-01-11 01:05:00 | Yes thats exactly what i have here oops hang on - yellow is video I think your sound should go to either the red or white input thingie |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 419947 | 2006-01-11 01:07:00 | Depends on the video card, and the TV. Does the TV accept S-Video cables? (These are small, about the size of a keyboard/mouse plug, but with four pins) or is it Composite? (These are a single pin, round plug) Usually the TV out on the PC is S-Video, so if your TV is Composite, you need an adapter. These usually come with the video card, but not always. I am not sure where you can buy one loose, maybe Dick Smith Electronics, if you don't already have one. For sound, you may want to connect sound card to TV, or not, up to you. If you do, and normally use PC speakers or something, you will need to swap these cables over when you want to use the TV's speakers. After the cables are connected, you will need to set the TV to it's input channel. If you can see the PC's desktop - great, that means everything is setup and you are ready to go. If not, try playing a DVD, and see if that works. The TV out may only switch on when video is being played. If you don't get anything you will need to setup the Overlay mode in the video card settings. Depending on the card, and driver version, these can be called pretty much anything, and be hidden in all sorts of places, so if the above steps don't work, post your video card make and model if you can. |
craig.b (6571) | ||
| 419948 | 2006-01-11 08:04:00 | I've run into trouble. I've got new cables but my plug that is supposed to go into my video card is the wrong one. The plug I need is a rond one about size of a PS2 but with nine pins. The video card is a gigabyte version of a X800XL. Neither Harvey's or DSE have one. The other end of the cable has a standard XVideo plug that fits into the xvideo hole on my tv. So no trouble at that end. |
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