Some asked me to post a hit: And I want to offer a THANK YOU for all the prompt
responses. I know I can count on solutions here. I hope this helps. We are going
to try the S-video with the Averkey as the TV and laptop are several years old that
that should have the best outcome.
my laptop will connect with an S-video cable. At cablestogo.com
<http://mail.ccpsnet.net/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://cablestogo.com> you can
purchase a s-video to composite cable with the s-video on one end and the tri-color
composites on the other end. (make sure the laptop actually has an s-video
out...not all do, but newer ones most likely will.)
The computer signal is digital. The TV uses an analog signal.
For the 2 to work together, you need a signal converter for analog to
digital (they are manufactured by several different vendors and have
different names, such as presenter or scan converter or TView or
iAverKey). With these units, while the computer is off, you just
connect the convert box to the computer using the monitor out plug and
then piggy-back the monitor through the converter box and then plug an
RCA cable out from the converter box to the video in on the TV - you
don't usually have to change any settings in the display when you do
this (unless the computer resolution is too high for the converter -
some of my older ones need 600X800 resolution but the newer ones work
fine with 1024X678).
Some computers have a built-in scan converter as part of the video card
- if so, there is usually a s-video connection on the same card/slot as
the out from the computer to the monitor (right beside the monitor
connection). In this case, you will need to use a s-video to RCA
converter cable if you television does not have s-video input. You will
also need to change the display settings on the computer. On my
computers, we have to tell the display to "clone" the image and then it
is visible on both the monitor and television.
Oh, I just read another answer to your question....
If the TV in question is an analog one, you can still connect with an SVHS cable,
provided the TV has an SVHS input jack......
Before I retired in 2000, we connected computers to Zenith TVs in the late 90s as
they had SVHS inputs.
Of course the computers did not have SVHS ports, so we had to use converter boxes
to link the computers and the TVs....
The laptop you are talking about surely has a port for an SVHS cable and if the TV
has an input for SVHS, you should be good to go!
Ah, SVHS is for VIDEO only. You'll need to get a separate "Y" stereo cable, if the
teacher also wants to have sound....
If you get desperate, you might be able to hook the laptop to a VCR which, in turn,
is hooked to the TV.
The problem is trying to convert the laptop to an analog
TV. If you have one of the newer LCD/Plasma units, no problem.
It sounds like you don't so you will have to get a video converter
for the video. You can easily transfer the audio with a 1/8" plug
that has RCA audio plugs on the other end. The video converters
are not something that most AV departments have on hand. Your best
bet would be to go to a place like Radio Shack, Best Buy etc
and tell them what you want to do.
I've used an AVerKey 300 converter. It connects computers to TV sets
You will need an S-video cord.
I have a laptop hooked to our television system through my channel one
box so that I can display daily announcements. I had to purchase an RF modulator.
The laptop has S-video so that S-video on laptop hooks to S-video on modulator.
The modualtor then connects to TV with AV jacks. Here is a link to one on amazon.
I purchased the one I have at WalMart for under $25.
http://www.amazon.com/Automatic-Video-Selector-RF-Modulator/dp/B000165AOY/ref=pd_sim_e_title_2
<http://mail.ccpsnet.net/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.amazon.com/Automatic-Video-Selector-RF-Modulator/dp/B000165AOY/ref=pd_sim_e_title_2>
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Computers and televisions have different "scan rates". You can't hook one to the
other directly or you see a scrolling black line where the scans mismatch. You need
a little device called a "scan converter". The typical brands are AVerkey, or
DPLink.
You need something that transforms the computer
signals to TV signals (that's not a technical
explanation, but it's sort of accurate). Our teachers
use Averkey boxes. They cost about $90 each. I
bought them from Tiger Direct
You probably need an AverKey. We got ours from Camcor in Burlington, NC
(phone 800-868-2462). The cost $99.98 and are called AverMedia Imicro
scan converters.
Carol DeMasi
Library Media Specialist,
Chesterfield Community High School
Chesterfield County, Virginia
Carol_DeMasi@ccpsnet.net
804-768-6156
<mailto:Carol_DeMasi@ccpsnet.net>
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