Hi, I have an interesting one here: I am using a Dell Inspiron 5000 Laptop. I am trying to make use of the TV-Out facility of my laptop using the S-Video socket. Everything is working absolutely perfectly - I am able to see the display on the TV as well as on the laptop screen. However, When I try to play a video using Windows Media Player, I can see the video on the laptop's screen, but on the TV I only get a dark grey/black box where the video should be. The rest of the Win Media Player shows up on the TV I'm just not getting the actual box with the video on it. I've tried switching it to full screen mode but that makes no difference - Except that the grey/black just expands as you'd expect for full screen mode. Every thing else is working perfectly as far as the TV Out capability is concerned. I just can't watch motion picture films. I know that the graphics card (ATI Rage Mobility 8MB)is correctly installed. The problem is occuring in both Windows ME AND Windows XP. Every thing is installed properly and working fine. I've messed about with the PAL & NTSC Region settings of the laptop S Video settings but still no joy. I've tried just about every setting within Media Player. Stumped. Just hoping someone out there might have some clues. Thanks Simon

Did you install the Divx codec?

Hi, I had the same problem on my Dell PC. Its to do with the macrovision protection on the ATI card. Bascially you cannot display media content on two screens at once. Go to the control panel>display>settings>advanced>displays and set the TV as the primary screen. Hope this works