FOAK: Laptop to TV cable

I have an Acer Aspire 9300 laptop with a couple of family movies on
it. I'd like to watch these on the big TV in the living room.

Which cable do I need?

TIA

 

That would rather depend on what inputs your TV can handle......

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Burning to DVD is probably a better option.

 

Two scarts and a load of coloured pluggy things

 

Buy a less pikey TV.

Mine's got a VGA socket, which is the easiest option of the lot.

 

Probably one of those S-VHS cables that look like a smaller DIN lead, most
recent TV's have a suitable input, generally used for a camcorder.
That's what I do with my Dell D600

 

Cable? How quaint.

 

Your laptop seems to have a VGA and S-Video outputs so you decide which one
you pick and wheer you want to plug it in.

Assuming the coloured inputs on your TV are component, I suppose this would
suit you:

 

I'm not sure how the f*ck I managed to press Alt+S when I wanted to press
Ctrl+V but anyhow.... as I was saying:

<http://www.tvcables.co.uk/cgi-bin/tvcables/BTXL18015-Component-VGA-Cable.html>


The easiest to find cable set around here was this:
<http://www.amazon.co.uk/Video-SCART-cable-Phono-Leads/dp/B000Q8L63Q/ref=pd_sbs_ce_title_2>

It uses the S-video output; I have one of those and it's not too shabby,
although I think vga-out offers better quality.

There's also some diy vga-to-scart tutorials around but I didn't bother
looking.


Geo

 

Given it's Cane, get one of these^^^^


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ginge says...

My girlfriend's got one of those...Oh, you said V-G-A ...sorry.

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CableS probably.

If yer big tv has a 'PC' connector then a 15pin SubD Male to Male (VGA
lead)[1] for the video plus a 3.5mm stereo jack to (probably) twin
phono connectors (for the audio) should do it.

Maplins, PC World, eBay .. decent high street electrical / HiFi shop
etc.

All the best ..

T i m


[1] These can be quite expensive (~20 quid) from the wrong places and
99p from eBay (I'm not sure if 'quality' comes into it for this
application).

 

I bought one of these from Maplin in Harlow.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?TabID=1&ModuleNo=35910&doy=29m12

Despite my weapons grade numptyness I've managed to get an output to
the TV[1] but only in black and white

Any pointers?

[1] more luck than judgement.

 

Sounds like you've picked a SCART socket without S-Video on it - so
you're getting the B&W composite picture.

Try a different SCART socket.

 

As someone mentioned up there. Got a proper tele with a vga input, you
pikey.

 

aha, didn't think of that. ta.

 

Sure as shit does. You can get away with a cheapy, but it's the cheapies
that cause the most problems (ghosting, etc). Of course, not all the
pricier ones are as good as their price suggests.
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Or it's looking for SECAM and you're giving it PAL.

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Ebay item 180200934828 seems a tad more competitive

 

Check the setup for the AVI inputs, most likely the one you have choosen is
in the wrong mode.
Change sockets or modes.