Help Needed to Connect my laptop to my TV

Annibelle

Is it possible to connect my laptop to my TV, it is our daughters birthday soon and I thought it would be nice to display all of the photos we have stored on the laptop on the TV screen.

chuckles1066

Annibelle wrote: »

Is it possible to connect my laptop to my TV, it is our daughters birthday soon and I thought it would be nice to display all of the photos we have stored on the laptop on the TV screen.

if it's got the relevant input port and you have the necessary laptop-tv cable then yes

Annibelle

Thanks, we have the cable but cant get the picture to appear on the TV screen. I am afraid we are not great with this type of thing.

amcluesent

>cant get the picture to appear on the TV screen<

Is there a Function key on the laptop that shows a screen icon? Try pressing that key+Fn together to get the laptop to use the external display.

Blacksheep1979

what/how are you trying to connect the two together with?

Annibelle

We have a cable that plugs into the tv directly into the usb port on the laptop.

espresso

Can you give any more details about this USB cable that plugs into your TV? If it is just a cable it won't work!

geekgirl

I used to use a an s-video lead that plugged into the laptop with a scart on the other end that went into the TV. Then had to go into monitor settings and fiddle in there.

You need to make sure you have the right ports on the laptop. John Lewis are really good if you take your laptop in and ask them to show you which lead you need.

Good luck.

Blacksheep1979

of course they're good to you - they charge 10x the price that you can get a lead elsewhere.

geekgirl

Blacksheep1979 wrote: »

of course they're good to you - they charge 10x the price that you can get a lead elsewhere.

I didn't say you have to buy it from them did I. In the early days I asked them loads of questions that they were helpful with but didn't really buy much from them. And they do the price match thing as well, so if you see it cheaper elsewhere they will match the price.

Blacksheep1979

If you're willing to go down the hassle of waiting for them to track down and pretend the price doesn't quite match their price match promise guidelines or just buy it elsewhere in the first place. Wouldn't say that they're that knowledgeable either, would reccomend maybe going to a small independent pc shop if you have to .

If it's an lcd/plasma screen tv you should be able to connect the monitor out from the laptop to the tv or if it's a older style crt tv then if wanting to use an s-vid cable first make sure that the tv supports s-vid as you can't just use an s-vid to scart cable on any tv.