Laptop To Tv

[roietrory]

I want to watch some movies (.avi) which I have on my laptop on the TV. What piece of equipment do I need to connect my laptop to the TV.

[LivinLOS]

I want to watch some movies (.avi) which I have on my laptop on the TV. What piece of equipment do I need to connect my laptop to the TV.

If the TV has a VGA input its a simple VGA cable.

If its an old CRT / non flat panel it will be cheaper to buy a media center or AVI playing DVD. The thing you would need then is called a trasncoder and it is quite complex to set up (custom timing and resolutions etc).

[3zie]

It will depend on the age of your TV but if he is not older than 5 years a VGA-cable should do it. just connect your tv like you should connect your notebook to a normal PC-screen. There are shortcut key's on your notebook to switch from notebook screen to tv screen.

[Beggar]

A cable :-)

The rest depends widely on the out-ports of your computer and the in-ports of your TV. So you have to tell us this.

Then it depends on the type of the graphic card & the driver. This is where often the final problems start...

[paulfr]

If you buy a good DVD player [2-3000B] it will have a USB connector on the front.

You can then use a flash drive to bring the avi to the DVD player and it will play on the TV

Most good DVD players will also play MP3's, show jpeg photos, and even rip a song to mp3 for later play.

[monty]

If your TV doesn't have a vga input, most laptop's have a video out.

The above is a regular s-video plug, you either use this to connect to the s-video input on your TV, or use a s-video to composite (rca) lead.

Many laptops also have the 7 pin version of the above.

Looks like this:

This plug (on a laptop) also can output component video. You'd need a special cable for that. In a plug like this you can also put a regular s-video lead!

Obviously the above is only for the video signal, so you will also need

a cable for the audio, jack to rca, plug the jack in the headphone socket on your laptop and the rca in the audio in on your TV.

Looks like this:

[d0ndela]

I want to watch some movies (.avi) which I have on my laptop on the TV. What piece of equipment do I need to connect my laptop to the TV.

As said, it depends very much on which out- and in-takes there are in your equipment.

If your laptop has a decent graphics card, there might be a Super Video outtake in it:

If you have this outtake in your laptop you can check if the same intake is on your TV. If not then check if there is a yellow AV intake, where a plug like this would fit:

And if it's new it might have a HDMI outtake, your TV should have the same then:

Either way, all these cables should be available in every computer store you find.

[roietrory]

I want to watch some movies (.avi) which I have on my laptop on the TV. What piece of equipment do I need to connect my laptop to the TV.

As said, it depends very much on which out- and in-takes there are in your equipment.

If your laptop has a decent graphics card, there might be a Super Video outtake in it:

If you have this outtake in your laptop you can check if the same intake is on your TV. If not then check if there is a yellow AV intake, where a plug like this would fit:

And if it's new it might have a HDMI outtake, your TV should have the same then:

Either way, all these cables should be available in every computer store you find.

Thanks for all your replies. I guess I will have to buy a .avi playing dvd player. I have a Compaq Presario CQ40 and my TV is about 5 years old. I have just been home and the back of the TV has lot of slots for the red, white and yellow cables. Guess I.m snookered then.

[d0ndela]

So your television has yellow slots, thats great. Then you just need to find the s-video slot on your notebook, I'm sure you have one, almost all models have that slot.

[astral]

Yellow just means video, not necessarily S-Video to match the notebook,

though you can get cables from RCA to S-Video.

[Jockstar]

If you have an Xbox and they both share a wireless modem then you only need a program called Tversity. No cables needed.

[seank]

If you buy a good DVD player [2-3000B] it will have a USB connector on the front.

You can then use a flash drive to bring the avi to the DVD player and it will play on the TV

Most good DVD players will also play MP3's, show jpeg photos, and even rip a song to mp3 for later play.

I bought a cheap DVD player in Carrefour for 1300bt and use it as Paulfr has mentioned. It has a USB connector on the front and plays .avi and mp3.

[jfchandler]

I had the exact same situation at home recently....and resolved it easily... I wanted to port NFL football game broadcasts received via the Internet on my laptop to my nearby TV.

Here's an item available for purchase from Amazon.com that does the trick very inexpensively, covering audio and video connections all in one cable... I'm guessing something similar could be found at Pantip or FortuneTown, but I haven't seen it yet.

At FortuneTown, I did find a S-Video cable (for the laptop video out) going to an RCA video in (for the TV) that cost about 100 baht...

Here's the item I purchased from Amazon...

The green plug is an stereo mini jack that goes into your laptop's headphones port to carry the audio. The opposite end of that cable has the red and white RCA connectors to carry the audio into your PC. The other cable with yellow connectors has a SVideo connector at one end for your laptop and an RCA video connector at the other end for the TV.

My laptop has the S-Video port that supports Video Out...and so my onboard graphics card likewise has settings that support a second monitor or TV... For this to work, your laptop has to support Video Out....I believe...

[Johan78]

One of these should do it, worked for me anyway.

[moo9]

Does anybody has experience with USB to HDMI interfaces?

I like to connect my Laptop by HDMI to a flatscreen 1080p TV.

THanks for any hint.

[Mercury]

DVD player with front facing USB port or get into cabling.

If you have no remote for the laptop, then get the DVD and at least have a remote for that.

[astral]

Does anybody has experience with USB to HDMI interfaces?

I like to connect my Laptop by HDMI to a flatscreen 1080p TV.

THanks for any hint.

A quick Google brought up this link http://www.cooldrives.com/usb-hdmi-adapter-dvi.html

Also read this thread http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Watching-Mov...ve-t238818.html

I am currently waiting for my local supplier to get me the WD box mentioned there

and will report once I have it.

I like the idea that it will decode High Def material I can download.