how to connect pc to tv

PeteHerts

MothballsWallet wrote: »

I was trying to connect my Compaq laptop to my Panasonic TV using the S Video connector, but I think that's for camcorders to be connected to. But my TV's older, so only has 2x SCARTs and phono connectors rather than VGA ones.

You can buy scart adaptors that have a s-video input like this

MothballsWallet

Pete, I need to check my laptop's manual to make sure that the S-Video port can be used as an output rather than an input, but thanks for that suggestion.

sleep2much

I use one of these DVI to HDMI connectors,


my video card has two outputs, so I use the spare one, when I want to watch my computer on the telly I right click on the screen and set up the dual monitors, I also have to plug the sound in via the front outputs on my computer which means changing audio options and putting my built in audio as default, it may seem a lot of messing around but it only takes a minute in real life when you know what to click, I don't think you should use a S-video connection as the results can be pretty dissapointing.

PeteHerts

MothballsWallet wrote: »

Pete, I need to check my laptop's manual to make sure that the S-Video port can be used as an output rather than an input, but thanks for that suggestion.

As far as I'm aware if a PC has only 1 S-video then it's for output only but if it has 2 then it's in and out.
Remember you can also use jack to phono leads to plug into the scart for sound to your TV.

baron777red

ive bought a vga cable to connect from my pc to my tv, which has a vga input socket, and also a jack to 2 phono cable for the sound,

if that works i might get a vga switch box to plug in my pc so that i dont have to keep swapping the vga cable every time i want to watch whats on my pc through my tv

never doen anything like this before so i hope its gonna work :eek:

MothballsWallet

PeteHerts wrote: »

As far as I'm aware if a PC has only 1 S-video then it's for output only but if it has 2 then it's in and out.
Remember you can also use jack to phono leads to plug into the scart for sound to your TV.

There is just 1 S-Video port on my laptop; but looking at the settings for the video card, it looks like it only supports driving a TV through the 15-pin D-sub VGA port and not the S-Video port, but there may be a way round it.

PeteHerts

MothballsWallet wrote: »

There is just 1 S-Video port on my laptop; but looking at the settings for the video card, it looks like it only supports driving a TV through the 15-pin D-sub VGA port and not the S-Video port, but there may be a way round it.

Can you tell me what make and model your laptop is please.