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Connecting PC to TV
Name: johnlee337 Date: January 23, 2004 at 09:24:45 Pacific OS: Windows XP Prof. CPU/Ram: AMD Athlon 1800/128MB pc2
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Sup guys I have these movies I had dl, and so I burnt the movie to a cd and I tried to watch it on my TV. I thought this would be a simple process and so I connected my laptop to my TV through s-video. I turned on the movie with windows media player and i can see the movie on my laptop but cant see it on the TV. I have 2 questions for you guys. 1) I thought that I had a s-video port on my laptop but looking at it closely it had 6 pin holes instead of 4. Everything else looks just like a s-video port but had 2 more pin holes on it. Is this a s-video port or something else? 2) If you want to connect your pc to TV is it as simple as connecting your s-video cable or do you need something called scan converter? Are there any simple way of connecting your pc to TV?
Name: 3com Date: January 23, 2004 at 09:29:11 Pacific
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You need to set the TV as primary monitor, because sometimes only one screen can show the video. you can do this in the display driver control panel.
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Response Number 2
Name: johnlee337 Date: January 23, 2004 at 10:17:22 Pacific
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Anthlon man Thx alot you were right i connected pc to Tv using the s-video cable and set tv as my primary and it worked. But I can get the sound to come out from the tv. Got any solution for that?
Thanks again Anthlon man!=)
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Response Number 3
Name: 3com Date: January 23, 2004 at 10:21:40 Pacific
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Hello again nice to help. try to plug the sound cable from your pc to the tv.
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Response Number 4
Name: bart2 Date: January 23, 2004 at 10:34:25 Pacific
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I believe Athlonman is correct. I don't think the s-video connector includes audio.
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Response Number 5
Name: 3com Date: January 23, 2004 at 10:37:23 Pacific
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only if you have a s-video scart with stereo jacks it has audio. but if you only use teh s-video cable, just connect a sound cable from your pc line out jack and directly to the tv.
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Response Number 6
Name: johnlee337 Date: January 23, 2004 at 13:00:39 Pacific
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Thanks to all you guys for your help. Now I can watch my movies I burnt to cd from my TV=)
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