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Posted by: UncleBuck Apr 16 2006, 01:55 PM

Can anyone out there tell me what I need to hook my laptop up to my tv so that I may watch dvds I have burned from my laptop on my t.v.
Listen through music on stereo but wondering about video as well
Thanks for any help ideas in advance

Posted by: belicked6924 Apr 16 2006, 02:35 PM

It depends on what's on the back of your laptop, if you have an S-video out or an RCA out jack. My laptop has an S-video jack and as far as the sound goes you can buy and adapter that will go from the headphone jack into RCA jacks.

Posted by: diane26 Apr 16 2006, 05:37 PM

Cant you watch the movies on a DVD player?? I burn all mine to DVD as far as the reast I have no Idea sorry

Posted by: UncleBuck Apr 16 2006, 09:31 PM

yes I have a dvd.. I am just wondering how I may watch movies that I may or may not of downloaded from a certain file sharing service.I can not figure out how to burn them in the right format that will play in a dvd hard to watch a full length movie with family on the old computer

Posted by: Bobaloo Apr 16 2006, 10:50 PM

Belicked is pretty much dead on as far as the easiest solution for you. If you don't have S-video output on your laptop, you'd have to get some sort of USB or PCMCIA card w/ dongle that would have the connections you need. I won't get really far into it cuz I don't know what you have. I think you'd be best off figuring out your DVD problem, though. That'd be the cheapest solution... unless, of course, you DVD player does not read home-made DVDs.

Good luck. Keep us updated and we'll help where we can.