I want to hook up a dual monitor situation using my standard computer monitor and my hd video game tv. Last time i moved, the monitor input/output stopped working. I had upgraded my graphics card which has some monitor out/put inputs on it, so i hooked my computer monitior up to that. OK. how do I go about setting up the HD tv to the computer. There is a s video output available on the graphics card. Can you plug in more than one device into the graphics card? Do I just need to buy a s-video cable and plug it into the hd monitor and the svideo output on the graphics card? By the way, not looking for HD quality. Just want to be able to watch hulu or youtube while working on the computer.

Ok. I have been told not to use the S-video,. but to use the 2nd VGA port on the card and hook it to the HD tv. End of topic, unless someone tells me I am wrong to do it that way.

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You have not supplied enough info. Which graphics card model do you have? Does it have HDMI or HDTV Out output capability? What ports are available on the card, possibly via a wiring "dongle", and the "hd video game tv."? Tell us which models they are! 1. - poorest looking result - legacy TV Out outut to the "hd video game tv." Legacy TV Out output is processed on the card to conform to the relatively ancient legacy TV display standards - you can only display on the TV in certain resolutions, and the vertical refresh rate is locked to either 60HZ or 50Hz depending on the TV standard. The pixels are relatively coarse on the TV - text and fine detail of Windows is a lot less clear, video is okay but not as good as on a monitor. You connect via either a "SVideo" port on the card to a legacy SVideo port on the TV (4 pin holes) , or via a legacy composite input on the TV - a single RCA jack, usually Yellow, which is usually right beside two RCA jacks for audio - usually Red and While, to a single RCA port on the card if it has that, or to a standard legacy SVideo to composite adapter plugged into the "SVideo" port on the card (4 pins to a single RCA jack). You use either a standard legacy Svideo cable - 4 pins both ends - or a single cable with male RCA plugs on both ends, preferably one meant for video (it's usually thicker than those for audio because it has better shielding). The "Svideo" jack on graphics cards is not an actual legacy SVideo port, which has only 4 pin holes - it has more pin holes than that (typically 7 or 8, never more) , but it's wiring and pin layout is compatible with a standard legacy 4 pin SVideo cable - the uses for the connections in the other pinholes in the "SVideo" jack varies somewhat. If the "hd video game tv." even has a legacy Svideo port - it may not - it has 4 pin holes. SVideo output is slightly better than composite output. On a HD graphics card, the port that looks kind of like a SVideo port is usually actually NOT compatible with plugging a standard legacy 4 pin SVideo cable into it (it has 8 or more pin holes) - in that case you use a wiring "dongle" in the port and plug into a jack or jacks on that instead - you may or may not have legacy SVideo support from a "dongle", as well as HDTV TV out support (three RCA jacks for HDTV) - you need two different "dongles" to have support for both.. 2. Better - HDTV Out output - the "hd video game tv" has composite HDTV inputs - three RCA jacks (NOT Yellow, Red, White) - and the graphics card has HDTV Out capability, available by connecting a wiring "dongle" that has 3 RCA jacks for HDTV (NOT Yellow, Red, White) to a port that looks kind of like an SVideo port on the card but a legacy 4 pin SVideo cable is incompatible with it. HDTV Out output is also processed on the card but it's a much newer TV standard. You use 3 cables, RCA male on both ends, preferably ones meant for video (they're usually thicker than those for audio because they have better shielding). (a single legacy composite RCA connection won't work connected to any of the three RCA jacks for HDTV) 3. Much better - VGA (EVGA) output, or DVI output, if the "hd video game tv." has a VGA port (much more common) or a DVI input port, and the graphics card has two appropriate monitor ports, or an adapter one one of the two to convert a DVI port to a VGA one (you can't convert a VGA port to DVI use - not enough connections). Your "hd video game tv" display is then just as good as a monitor display, except you may be limited to fewer resolutions and vertical refresh rates on it. You use a VGA or DVI video extension cable - usually male on both ends, if the port on the TV is the usual female. All of the above have no support for sound. If you want sound to go along with the display on the "hd video game tv" itself , you also need to either - connect the red and white RCA audio jacks on the "hd video game tv" to the Line Out or the headphones jack on your computer, which is probably a stereo 1/8" jack, via an appropriate cable, two RCA male on one end, 1/8" stereo plug on the other end. - or if the "hd video game tv." has an 1/8" stereo audio input jack, via a cable that has an 1/8" stereo plug on both ends. - a HD graphics card may have two RCA jacks for sound available - usually Red and White - via connecting a wiring "dongle" to the card - on the same "dongle" that has a legacy composite single RCA jack, usually Yellow. In that case you need two cables, RCA male on both ends, or 1cable, two RCA male on one end, 1/8" stereo plug on the other end. 4. Best - a HDMI output connection - the "hd video game tv." has a HDMI input port, and the graphics card has HDMI capability and has HDMI output available, either via HDMI port, or via a DVI to HDMI port adapter on a DVI monitor port. The HDMI connection includes sound support for the TV. However, HDMI cables are relatively expensive.