Comments on: How to connect your Laptop/PC/Computer to your TV

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:36:31 +0000

Hi,

I connected my Sony Vaio Laptop to Sony Bravia LCD TV….however, the LCD Monitor does not show fullscreen. Also, when I run a movie on my laptop, it displays on the lcd, however, there is no audio on the TV?

By: Gable

Gable — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:49:05 +0000

Many of the recent posts are general questions about cables and sounds etc. I recommend looking at this page about connecting computers to TVs at:

http://www.hillcrestlabs.com/loop/connecting.php

By: Jewbacca

Jewbacca — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:46:39 +0000

ANSWER TO BLACK AND WHITE VIDEO

If you are using a S-Video Cable or S-Video Cable adapter, check how many pins are in the S-Video end of the plug (connecting to PC). If there are only 4 pins, you will only get black and white. You need a better cable/adapter. I have 2 pcs hooked up to 2 tvs in 2 locations. I use a S-Video-to-RCA adapter on both. On one there are 4 pins and I get black and white. On the other there are at least 7 (from my memory) and I get full colour.

By: JJ

JJ — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:27:55 +0000

Can you connect a Laptop to a TV without wires i.e. Wireless?

By: Peter Smith-Round

Peter Smith-Round — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:13:27 +0000

Hi, I have a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo lap top which I want to connect to my Samsung 32″ LCD tv (Samsung LE32R87BD). I am using a VGA cable which works on other lap tops I have had but not this one? If I turn the TV off at the wall and turn it back on again I get a glimse of the laptop screen but then it goes black. Frustrating as hell..!!

Any tips would be welcome!

Peter

By: Tricia

Tricia — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:35:01 +0000

How do I get the sound to work? I bought a HDMI to VGA cord but the TV has another RCA spot that says audio in am I supposed to hook something to this?

By: Nicole

Nicole — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:40:22 +0000

Thanks for the great tips. Pictures and videos are always good to have. My laptop is now showing up on my TV!

By: srikanth

srikanth — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:59:57 +0000

How to connect my dell inspirion 5150 to TV? My location is India, hyderabad. Kindly give me advise and suggest what cable I should use!

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:46:20 +0000

Hi my father has a hdtv and has the pc/vga connector and has the yellow.. white.. red.. and the s video on it.. now we connected it to both ends using the same white.. yellow.. red.. and s vid on the pc vga on the graphics card but nothins workin… nothing is showin on the screen the tv keeps goin in off mode.. is there anything im missing out? iv tried changin the g cards res to the same as the tv but still nothing. please help.

By: Frosty

Frosty — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:03:20 +0000

I have a Samsung DLP and a Sony Vaio laptop running Windows 7, my laptop recognizes the Samsung DLP but I can’t get the TV to PC mode to recognize the laptop, I’m using a VGA, any suggestions?

By: steve blackburn

steve blackburn — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:19:48 +0000

hi, been using advice and have successfully connected old dell pc to new lcd samsung via s-video from pc converted to scart into tv. No problem except, tv picture is too big and when I use the mouse up/down/left/right on the perimeters of monitor it moves the tv screen around!!!! Any ideas, using nvidia geforce4 mx 420. thanxxxx

By: vicky

vicky — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:19:33 +0000

some one please help me

i have Compaq presario C700 notebook (vista compatible but using XP) and Sony Bravia 32′Lcd TV.i am using VGA cable to connect it to tv but the tv shows no signal.i am switching from tv to pc mode.

how can i resolve this problem.

thanks for help.

By: Gable

Gable — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:42:52 +0000

S-Video will support color, but only analog signals and standard definition (old). Even composite supports color (RCA yellow jack), but again only analog St Def.

Neither S-Video or composite carry audio. That must be wired separately. Same is true for VGA.

If nothing is showing up on the TV, perhaps double check that you have the TV set to the right input.

By: Gable

Gable — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:38:03 +0000

Maybe the blu-ray is not working because it is locked due to some obscure licensing/legal reason. If everything else (website, Hulu, etc) shows up fine on your TV monitor. This is just a guess. If the problem continues, you just have to contact the mfg of your laptop.

By: Ravishankar

Ravishankar — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:56:26 +0000

UPDATE SOLUTION FOR BLACK AND WHITE VIDEO ,

Update found solution got pinout of my dell laptop and shorted pins 3 and 4 i.e passed a small wire from 3 hole to 4 hole and then inserted the s plug into laptop, now I am getting super colours pins 3 and 4 are for Y grayscale and C colour. Refer the pinout of Svideo pin of your laptop and short the pins containing Y grayscale signal and C colour signal

ravi.exe@gmail.com