Laptop To Tv Screen Transfer

[nam-thip]

Can any of you guys help me with the following?

I have an Acer aspire 4720z laptop with S-video output.

The Laptop is two years old.

I have two Samsung TV’s both with S-video input.

One TV is four years old whilst the other is one year old.

The Laptop has a 7 pin S-video output connection

Both Samsung TV’s have 4 pin S-video input connections

I want to transfer the desktop screen (watch videos etc) of my Laptop to my TV using an S-video cable.

Do I need a 7-pin to 4-pin S-video cable?

Is there a set-up procedure required on the laptop to transfer the screen to the TV or is it automatic.

Looking through the menu on the TV for S-video there is no ‘computer setting’.

The S-video choices on both Samsung TV’s are as follows:

VCR

DVD

Sat, STB

AV Recv

DVD Recv

Game

Camcorder

DVD combo

Here is what I’ve tried so far but to no avail.

1) Among the many cables I’ve acquired over the years I found a 4-pin to 4-pin

S-video cable which I connected to both Laptop and TV knowing the Laptop is 4-pin whilst the TV is 7-pin (I’ll try anything).

2) I made no changes to the laptop setting but when the S-video cable was connected to both laptop and TV I hit the FN+F5 keys hoping to transfer the picture but nothing happened.

3) I’ve tried every S-video setting on my TV from those given above and went through the FN+F5 procedure at each setting but failed.

Any ideas or suggestions?

[agent69]

1. From what I have read about s-video, the 7-pin socket will accept 4-pin jack. So I guess you should be okay with connecting both laptop and TV together using a 4-pin-to-4-pin cable.

2. when you the screen switching button (fn+F5) usually switch between the laptop built-in LCD screen and an external monitor connected through the VGA socket (15 pins).

3. Normally Windows will detect the s-video as a second screen. Look at the Display settings in the Control Panel. You just need to tell Windows to use the second monitor (TV via S-Video). It should allow you to extend the desktop or clone. Also some video driver may already have the support of multiple monitors.

Hope this is helpful.

[adammike]

I connected a PS3 to my old tv with a scart cable that came with it "no sound" tried everything, finally looked at the scart connection

and it had only half the teeth there was a gap in the middle section ,found an adaptor and it worked fine

So if the laptop has 7 pins the tv will need 7 pins.

[triplegee]

I bought a cable kit from Panthip for about 600 THB which had cables and a connector box with 4 connections on each side - including S-Video. It allows you to choose the connection that's best for your TV which in my case is the same cable that you'd use with a projector (VGA I think??). All cables came in the box.

Plug the 2 together and does as agent69 suggested (fn-F5) and what's on the laptop is on the TV. It also has cables for the audio so it's perfect for streaming sports coverage.

Edited May 13, 2009 by triplegee