Re: Connecting computer to TV & Stereo?

[daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On New Year's eve I had a video of my son's model trains he wanted to play
for the grandparents.  I didn't realize before we left home that my Fujitsu
notebook didn't have any kind of video output other than VGA.  I copied the
file over to my father-in-law's Dell Inspirion.  I've got a Latitude for
work and I knew that it came with a little pig-tail adapter that plugs into
the back to break out composite and s-video but I didn't have it with me.
Ultimately, we found out that you could plug the s-video cable directly
into the jack.  I still had to play around with either the resolution or
refresh rate to get it to display correctly on the TV.  Since then I've
bought a cheap VGA to composite video adapter off of eBay but I haven't
tried it out yet.

Dave Parnin
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Nishikawa Standard Company
Topeka, IN  46571
daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx





                                                                                
                              
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Folks:

I'm experimenting with connecting my computer (Dell Inspiron 600m
laptop) to my TV to play videos.

The laptop has a S-Video out connector ... and it seems to work fine
when I use the s-video adapter provided with the laptop (I connect it to
the video in connectors on the front of the TV).

My question is this: What's the best way to connect the computer to both
the TV for video and my stereo amplifier for audio?

I assume that S-Video provides both video & audio. Is there a S-Video
cable that can split the video & audio into 3 connectors so I can hook
up to the S-Video IN connector on the TV and the audio in on my stereo?

I am *NOT* very sophisticated when it comes to audio/video ... so I'm
not 100% sure what I'm doing.

david
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