PC to TV

Verb

I want to connect my brothers PC to his TV as he lives in a smallish apartment in the city. I thought it would be a much simpler thing to do than it really is. When I went to look at his PC the other day he has no S-Video connection. So if it was to be made possible it would have to be through the VGA connection on the back of the tower that his monitor connects to. I also wanted to connect it to his TV with a scart as it’s an oldish TV (its not that old it does have build in digital TV) but it does have an S-Video connection on the TV. Can anyone please help me make this possible?

MercilessKiller

You have 2 options.

1) If he has a new tv with a VGA input, buy a long VGA cable.

2) If not, you need to buy a new graphics card (not too expensive for tv out) which has S-Video

Unless anyone has any other ways that's all I could suggest

missile

Get a new Sony all-in-one and just plug it in to the TV socket. Maybe expensive solution but it worked for me! Sold on my old DELL to offset some of the cost.

see http://www.laskys.com/pcs_and_laptops/pcs_and_apple_desktops/pcs/sony_vaio_lt1m.html?cm_mmc=Google-_-Killer_Campaign_PPCPM-_-SONY_VAIO_LT1M-_-SONY_VAIO_LT1M

Verb

I was hoping that I would be able to connect to the VGA on the PC tower then to the S-Video on the TV then connect the sound with Jack cables. That’s if this is possible. Does anyone know?

MercilessKiller

Those types of converters aren't cheap:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=37141&doy=21m12&C=SO&U=strat15

You'd be better of buying a graphics card.

worto03

yup - I'd go with buying a new grapics card too, you'll only need a basic one as long as it has s-video out on it & it should come with the drivers\software to let you clone the screen to the tv or stretch the desktop over the 2 screens.

It's how I used to connect my last tower to my TV.

worto.

Verb

Thank all. I still have another option. I have another PC at home that I dont use. I will have a look at that to see if that has a S-Video. Hopefully it will. Am I right in saying that I will be able to connect it straight to the TV by a S-Video to S-Video cable or can I do it with an S-Video to Scart as I have seen these for sale. Can they be used on a PC. Failing all this I will go and buy a graphics card.

MercilessKiller

You'd be better of using S-Video direct. Why pay more for an S-Video to Scart adapter?

sleep2much

I have a fairly top end graphics card and connect it to my tv with an s-video cable, I have to say the results are mixed, the normal computer display looks rubbish and will not fit the screen correctly, plus it's blurred, but if I display media centre or media player to watch a film the picture is good, I'd hoped for a lot better, I guess these new lcd tv's are a lot better than my crts' resolution.

MercilessKiller

That's because of the hz that the tv can display and the difference between a PC monitor and a CRT TV, and also what an S-Video transfers.

S-video cables are made for video out really.. so watching media files and video's on your tv. If you want to use your tv as a monitor you need a DVI VGA cable to an LCD TV that supports it.