!$*@ the guy who invented this cable.

[Locut0s]

If you have never sold computer retail you won't probably know what I'm talking about. And yes I'm not being totally serious here it's 1/2 a joke.

"I want to connect my laptop to my TV"

I don't think a day goes by that I don't hear this phrase. It's always a laptop with just VGA out and a TV with just RCA and similar in. They never believe me when I tell them there isn't a simple cable that will work (well 90% of the time it won't anyway). "No. I've seen the cable (see pic)".

:'(

Tech note: The cable above really only works for instances where a device can output a composite signal through the VGA port. Not the case with just about all the laptops and vid cards out there.

 

[sandorski]

I think I have one of those in my scraps box.

 

[Anneka]

) To many cables for my taste. What happens with good old wireless

 

[Locut0s]

I think I have one of those in my scraps box.

Try connecting your PC/laptop to your TV with it. :twisted:

 

[Locut0s]

) To many cables for my taste. What happens with good old wireless

Yeah don't get me started on the people who want to do the same wirelessly. Again not that it can't be done but they want like a simple USB thumb drive to do it.

 

[sandorski]

Try connecting your PC/laptop to your TV with it. :twisted:

What happens if I do? D:

 

[Locut0s]

What happens if I do? D:

You get to magically control everything you see on TV with your computer. Just type what you want your fav TV characters to do and they do it! All possible with this $2.99 cable!

 

[sandorski]

You get to magically control everything you see on TV with your computer. Just type what you want your fav TV characters to do and they do it! All possible with this $2.99 cable!

Sweet!

I think it came with my 9800Pro, or some other vidcard.

 

[Anneka]

You get to magically control everything you see on TV with your computer. Just type what you want your fav TV characters to do and they do it! All possible with this $2.99 cable!

Or something in your house explodes.... Your risk

 

[The Boston Dangler]

Sweet!

I think it came with my 9800Pro, or some other vidcard.

the all wonder 9800 pro had a similar one, no vga plug

 

[zokudu]

I know what you mean OP. Had that all the time when I worked at BestBuy.

 

[Texashiker]

I use something like that here at the office for web conferences. Its an adapter that goes from s-video and converts the signal to cable, and RCA jacks. Our adapter came from radio shack.

We do webinars for continuing educations credits for our nurses. I stream the visual through the laptop and onto a 34 or 36 inch TV, then dial into the audio part with the phone. The conference room sits about 25 - 30 people, and its easier for them to see the TV, then to see a small laptop.

Adapters like in the OP can come in handy, a couple of the laptops here in the office do not have S-video output.

 

[ShawnD1]

Tech note: The cable above really only works for instances where a device can output a composite signal through the VGA port. Not the case with just about all the laptops and vid cards out there.

My $500 laptop from 2006 can do s-video without an adapter. Your laptop sucks.

 

[bobdole369]

Yup the video card has to support the cable. i can't tell you how many people I've run into that expect that this will just "work". Usually "bob" did it once.

 

[ShawnD1]

Yup the video card has to support the cable. i can't tell you how many people I've run into that expect that this will just "work". Usually "bob" did it once.

Understandably they would expect it to work on their $1000 laptop when it works fine on my $500 laptop from 5 years ago. Technology is supposed to get better, not shittier. Having a laptop that doesn't support svideo is like finding out the car you just bought doesn't come with a cigarette lighter.

 

[alkemyst]

and this is off-topic because????

 

[slayer202]

do that many people still have non-hd tvs?

 

[Jeff7]

do that many people still have non-hd tvs?

My parents. I think they've got a 27 or 30" Trinitron, and evidently no desire to switch to anything else. (Partly because they don't want to change to widescreen.)

 

[dank69]

Try connecting a 5870 eyefinity to a 3007wfp-hc.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Having a laptop that doesn't support svideo is like finding out the car you just bought doesn't come with a cigarette lighter.

Most new ones don't. They still have the 12v DC port, but the push-in lighter is a few bucks extra (the parts department will usually have a box of 'em.)

 

[mmntech]

Most new ones don't. They still have the 12v DC port, but the push-in lighter is a few bucks extra (the parts department will usually have a box of 'em.)

The only cars that still do AFAIK are Volkswagen and Audi.

TV-out was always crap on computers anyway. The screens would never scale properly and text would be blurry. I have no idea why you'd still want to use a computer with a non-HDTV.