Connect Toshiba laptop to Toshiba Tv

Poppy9

I have a Toshiba Satelite L300 1AQ laptop and Toshiba XV553DB Tv. What lead to do I need to connect them so I can watch catchup TV via TV?

Do I need to change any settings on my laptop?

Also will the sound come through the TV?

Thank you.

hotkee

Just need standard pc - monitor cable - the laptop should have a port which looks like this

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/x30monitor.gif

Providing your TV has an equivalent port, then you need a standard monitor to pc cable.

Boot laptop and it should automatically work (thats what normally happens but cant say definitely for your laptop or tv, I have done that with a Toshiba laptop and a Sony tv).

Sound should come with that.

KKP

So if I've read this right, you want your laptop's display to clone to the TV?

Both have VGA interfaces, so you'd need a VGA to VGA "male" cable, and as for audio, no - you would need to use a different method entirely. Which would be costly as that laptop doesn't have any alternative to the VGA connector. Are you familiar with standard video\audio interfaces? (SCART, VGA etc)

KKP

hotkee wrote: »

Just need standard pc - monitor cable - the laptop should have a port which looks like this



Providing your TV has an equivalent port, then you need a standard monitor to pc cable.

Boot laptop and it should automatically work (thats what normally happens but cant say definitely for your laptop or tv, I have done that with a Toshiba laptop and a Sony tv).

Sound should come with that.

Thats incorrect - VGA is a video only standard (Video Graphics Array).

Nor will it "work" without user changes to the system.

Poppy9

hotkee wrote: »

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/x30monitor.gif

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I have a port that looks like that but without the side things to screw into. See below it's external monitor port.

So could I borrow the lead from my main PC (not laptop)that connects the computer monitor to the desktop computer and just plug into my laptop and TV and watch this programme that I want to see.

hotkee

hotkee wrote: »

Sound should come with that.

Ok I am wrong about the sound.

I have a Toshiba Equim M50, I just plugged a normal pc vga monitor cable into laptop and into the back of a sony tv.

Rebooting the laptop then I got the picture display from laptop on my tv.

The sound was still generated by the laptop though - I could in my case, plug some audio cables in I think into the headset of the laptop and into the back of the tv and get the sound to the tv (but I did not try that in my case).

I just placed the laptop near the pc and it basically felt like I was watching a tv programme.

KKP

hotkee wrote: »

Ok I am wrong about the sound.

I have a Toshiba Equim M50, I just plugged a normal pc vga monitor cable into laptop and into the back of a sony tv.

Rebooting the laptop then I got the picture display from laptop on my tv.

The sound was still generated by the laptop though - I could in my case, plug some audio cables in I think into the headset of the laptop and into the back of the tv and get the sound to the tv (but I did not try that in my case).

I just placed the laptop near the pc and it basically felt like I was watching a tv programme.

At the very least, you would usually need to press the VGA\LCD function key on your laptop keyboard for that to happen. That doesn't always work depending on model, so it would require display driver settings changes (accessible from Control Panel in Windows) to have the machine clone its LCD display to the TV.

hotkee

KKP wrote: »

At the very least, you would usually need to press the VGA\LCD function key on your laptop keyboard for that to happen. That doesn't always work depending on model, so it would require display driver settings changes (accessible from Control Panel in Windows) to have the machine clone its LCD display to the TV.

I didn't have to do anything with my model - it just worked - the only thing I had to ensure was that I rebooted - simply plugging a cable from laptop to tv whilst laptop was on did not work - I did this last month when I was showing some tv show to a visiting relative.

I did then try to do a similar thing later with a Dell d400 laptop and a different AOC PC/Monitor Combo - that didn't work.

Poppy9

I did it:T:T:T

I found a lead that came with DD Toshiba Tv so it could be used as PC monitor. Plugged it into my laptop and the TV, rebooted and switched to PC mode on Tv and it worked. The sound was the only disappointment as it came from my laptop.

KKP

hotkee wrote: »

I didn't have to do anything with my model - it just worked - the only thing I had to ensure was that I rebooted - simply plugging a cable from laptop to tv whilst laptop was on did not work - I did this last month when I was showing some tv show to a visiting relative.

I did then try to do a similar thing later with a Dell d400 laptop and a different AOC PC/Monitor Combo - that didn't work.

Well, it may be a quirk of the particular software configuration of the OEM. With a clean install I've never had a machine switch displays by itself...