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Recently I have downloaded some movies. I have watched them on my laptop. So I thought it would be good to watch them on my 42 inch tv. Bought a cable to connect my laptop to my tv today. Connected it correctly and played the move. Now the picture was the ok but no sound from the tv?

There was sound and picture from my laptop but no sound from my tv with picture only.

Do I need to adjust any settings etc?

Thanks for any suggestions.

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Recently I have downloaded some movies. I have watched them on my laptop. So I thought it would be good to watch them on my 42 inch tv. Bought a cable to connect my laptop to my tv today. Connected it correctly and played the move. Now the picture was the ok but no sound from the tv?

There was sound and picture from my laptop but no sound from my tv with picture only.

Do I need to adjust any settings etc?

Thanks for any suggestions.

begs

The question is: the cable you use to connect to the TV is what kind of cable? Has it Audio wires as well or is it an coax cable only?

You have to explain in more details what you use and have done.

Cheers.

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Recently I have downloaded some movies. I have watched them on my laptop. So I thought it would be good to watch them on my 42 inch tv. Bought a cable to connect my laptop to my tv today. Connected it correctly and played the move. Now the picture was the ok but no sound from the tv?

There was sound and picture from my laptop but no sound from my tv with picture only.

Do I need to adjust any settings etc?

Thanks for any suggestions.

begs

I'd be interested to know more about this as the way I watch movies on the TV is to copy the .avi files to a USB flash drive and plug it into a DVD player that has a USB port.

This is OK for normal, low definition movies and TV programmes, but USB 2.0 isn't quick enough for high definition - you get stuttering/jumping of video and/or sound.

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Just connect a sound cable from your audio out on the computer to the audio in on the TV?

Audio out is usually a 3.5mm connection, audio in on TV 2 chinch connectors. Would be good to know what kind of cable you got? DVI - HDMI, DVI - DVI, VGA - VGA? Most TVs have DVI and/or VGA inputs as well as the standard HDMI.... If you have no idea what you have just post some pix of the cable... :)

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a cable like this should do the trick.

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The red & blue pair go onto the tv. The black jack plugs into the headphones socket on your laptop.

and as nikster said, post a pix. Would be especially good if you can take the photos of how you hook them up.

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The cable I bought in Tuk Com Pattaya Tai has the following printed on it : E306534 AWM 2919 80degree C 30V VW-1 low voltage computer cable LIANKEXUN.

At each end of the cable is what I call the plug its a 15 pushin and has two side screws. (sorry for the non tech description)

It does deliver high quality picture, no juddering etc etc.

I will go back and get an audio cable.

Thanks

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As downloaded movies are in divx or xvid format I just burn them on to a re-recordable DVD or CD and play them in my DVD player. Most players now will play these formats. I just re-use the DVD/CD for the next movie.

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The cable I bought in Tuk Com Pattaya Tai has the following printed on it : E306534 AWM 2919 80degree C 30V VW-1 low voltage computer cable LIANKEXUN.

At each end of the cable is what I call the plug its a 15 pushin and has two side screws. (sorry for the non tech description)

It does deliver high quality picture, no juddering etc etc.

I will go back and get an audio cable.

Thanks

begs

OK, you've got your TV hooked up through a VGA cable, and are effectively using it as a monitor!

This cable does not carry audio, for this you need the extra cable described above!

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You may need to check the TV manaul on which audio sockets you can use with the VGA video input as there may be more than one set if your TV can take multiple inputs.

Now on your TV, the audio sockets may have red & white colour coding and the audio cable has red & black. Just match the red plug to the red socket.

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You may need to check the TV manaul on which audio sockets you can use with the VGA video input as there may be more than one set if your TV can take multiple inputs.

Yes good point! Our BenQ LCD has a 3.5mm jack for the VGA audio rather than RCA connectors. Yes, I had to go back and get the correct cable, serves me right, RTFM :)

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