Conneting to TV

[Roy Dennis]

On this site: www.s-video.com there are some demonstration videos showing different setups maybe Worth a visit.

They also sell all the set up cables and accessories.

Roy.

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by Stela

It's a Dell Inspiron 15.

15 what? (1525,1526, etc.)? If you let me know what that is then I can look it up on Dell's site and get pictures of the laptop to look for outputs.

Also there has to be some type of output plug on the laptop to send the Secondary Monitor to a TV or full size computer monitor. Are you sure that RS232 isn't actually a VGA output? Without an output of some type this laptop will not be able to hook-up to a TV at all.

Originally Posted by Stela

Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD - Supports up to 384MB shared video memory.

This may be a factor in how well this works, but first you have to be able to hook up.

Your audio is no problem. you will need a cable with an 1/8" plug to either a 1/4" plug or to RCA plugs (Left and Right channels. The easiest and best would be the 1/4 plug since you only need one. Be sure that both are Stereo plugs and not Mono.

[billyo]

if your laptop has no s-video most likely your laptop came with just a vga out, you'll need to get a pc to tv converter, you can get this from www.aitech.com, it's called "Maxview pc to tv video converter", their about $70-100, i had one a while back,this comes with a vga ,rca and s-video out, what you'll have to do is connect the vga of the converter to your laptops vga and connect either the s-video or the rca of the converter to your external monitor/tv,someone in the forum suggested a site where you can get a cheaper ($26.00) similar product, i just can't remember the sites name, but it's called "video converter" (LKV 2000 ) i bought one and it does work...i was just wondering why you don't have an s-video,since most Dell laptops has 'em,i have 2 Dell laptops( E1505 & E1405) and bought came with a 7 pin s-video.

[Stela]

Thank you Dale and Billy. I took the PC to Best Buy and it is a VGA output. I'll look around for a tv converter. Thank you very much for your help!!!!

[RIKKI TIKKI]

Originally Posted by Stela

Thank you Dale and Billy. I took the PC to Best Buy and it is a VGA output. I'll look around for a tv converter. Thank you very much for your help!!!!

Stela,

Try monoprice.com ( Great Site for cables, converters, adaptors, etc. ) and check out this converter ( it's quite a bit cheaper than what you will find at Bestbuy or Radio Shack ) it's the one I use and find it's compact size and ease of use superior to the Gigaware version offered by Radio Shack, which I tried first!

http://www.monoprice.com/products/pr...seq=1&format=2

[Stela]

Thanks Rick. I just placed the order and the price was very good. Thanks again.

[billyo]

Rikki was right that was the site i got my converter from www.monoprice.com, make sure you get the KLV 2000 ( video converter )