Comments on: Connecting Laptop to TV Without Getting a Headache

By: Frankie

Frankie — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:40:38 +0000

I own an Acer aspire one laptop and trying to connect it to my home tvs. It only comes with the VGA port which I can connect the VGA cable at both ends to my HDTV. I just have to change the Fn+ F5 on the laptop to get the right screen resolution shows on the tv. This works fine on my HDTV.
Now, my question is having the same laptop to connect to an older tv with only RCA ports and S-video port (but I don’t have the S-video Cable). Meaning no VGA/Composite/ HDMI/DVI. Is this possible at all? What cable or converter would I need?

Thanks.

By: Alain

Alain — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:12:52 +0000

Hi
I connect my lToshiba Sattelite Laptop VGA male to VGA male HDTV Samsung and I get only background image of my laptop.
What I am doing wrong?
Thanks

By: Ethan

Ethan — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:52:47 +0000

Hey, I have a laptop and I was trying to connect it to my tv, but as stated above my computer has 7 pins but my tv only has four. What can I do to get this to work?

By: Matthew286

Matthew286 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:05:19 +0000

I recently bought a VGA to 3 RCA component cable. However when i connect, a message is displayed saying “no signal”. have followed other solutions posted on this website and a few others which suggest pressing “fn” and F4 or F7 (the screen key), but message is displayed saying “mode not supported”. Have also right clicked on desktop changed a setting, also “extending my windows deskop onto this monitor” now the tv flashes a broken display every 3 seconds from the middle of the screen downwards, top half is blank and can not make out the image.

Im using a Sony Vaio N110, and Samsung LCD LE37S86BDX

Can anyone help?

By: Tate

Tate — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:31:10 +0000

Hi,
My laptop has a 7 pin S-Video output & the TV has a 4 pin S-Video input. How do I make the connection work? At present, I have a 4 pin S-Video cable with the blocker inside the head of the cable removed so it plugs into the laptop (this is what the guy at the computer store told me to do). I can get my background pick up if the settings is “Extend my desktop onto this monitor”, but nothing else will show up. Any help here is great.
Tate

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:57:54 +0000

Cindy,

I have a MacBook Pro laptop & a Samsung 42″ HDTV. I have the odd-looking DVI output on the laptop and the usual HDMI inputs on the tv. All you will need is a conversion coupler to transform the connection to the correct input you have on your tv, if you have a DVI or HDMI video out port on your laptop. If you only a have a vga video out jack on the laptop then you will ned to see if there is such a thing as a vga-to-RCA coupler. I do not know if there is such a thing. In order to use DVI or HDMI inputs on the tv you will need to have a laptop that has a similar output. It will only have such an output if it can generate a high def video signal. I am not familiar with the specs on your Dell laptop but if you can find a way to convert your video output so that it will go into the RCA jack on the t.v. you should get a picture and then convert your stereo/headphones output into RCA cables –the white & red ones that go into the jacks on the tv– you should be all set. You’ll need a stereo mini cable with 2 male ends. Then get a stereo mini cable-to-RCA converter coupler at Radio Shack and you will be good to go. I hope this helps you out. It’s how I do it, Rube Goldberg style admittedly, but it works for me. Good Luck.

-Matt

By: cindy

cindy — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:25:00 +0000

I have a Dell Inspiron 1521 with a vga output and a Sony Bravia HDTV. Will the HDMI to DVI cable work to connect the laptop to TV to view Netflix streaming videos or do I have to get a VGA cable? What kind of cable to I need for audio connection. My dell has a headphone and microphone audio slots?

By: kesu

kesu — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:16:47 +0000

Hi,
My laptop has a 7 pin S-Video output & the TV has a 4 pin S-Video input. How do I make the connection work? At present, neither picture nor audio is displayed / heard on TV when playing a DVD from laptop.

By: malar

malar — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:07:35 +0000

Hi,
I have connected my LG laptop with samsung LCD tv using 15 pin VGA…
I have problem like only desktop background is displayed and the desktop background also looks broader in TV.
could u plz help me to rectify this problem?

By: Blia Chang

Blia Chang — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:10:07 +0000

Hello there!

I am trying to connect my laptop to my tv and it is giving me a headache!
I have an HP Pavilion tx2000, in other words, a tablet laptop, and a 52″ Sanyo tv.

I got an S-video with RCA cord, one end is the 7 pin S-video for the laptop with and audio cord for the headphone jack, and the other end is the 3 color RCA cable for the tv. I tried connecting the RCA cord to the tv according to the colors on there, but all I got were sounds, no picture at all. I dont know if that’s the wrong cord or what, but I can’t seem to get any picture at all on the tv. So, help!?!?

Thanks.
Blia.