Desktop vs. Laptop

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by JonPyle

Well I'm going to run my first show Wednesday night. In my test run it sounds great, from my laptop (Compaq Presario) which is ran into a Behringer PMP2000 Powermixer to two Peavy 115 speakers... I am concerned about my video quality and may need some upgrades. I'm using a Sabrent PC to TV converter which is fair, but not for video shows. Any suggestions?

I play a lot of video in my show using a VGA to RCA video converter with quite acceptable picture quality output to 40" + TV sizes.

If you have HDMI connectors on both your laptop and Monitor this gives you excellent picture quality although you will need to disable the sound going through the same connection.(Read how to do that here http://forum.mtu.com/showpost.php?p=108439&postcount=7)
One draw back with this set up is if the connection is to a monitor fixed to a wall the connections are usually at the back and hard to get to which is one reason I stick to the RCA video in, which is normally located in an easy to access place.