connect laptop to tv

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i was wondering if anyone knows how to connect a Compaq presario 2500 to mabey there is some other connection TV which has the red yellow white input(sorry im a noob an don’t know the technical term for it)

thx would make watching web casts more fun to watch on a bigger screen

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You could try using an S-Video cable.

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know where to find a cheap one

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Try your local electronics store such as Best Buy and Circuit City. Or you can try www.newegg.com

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You have two options:

  1. use a large monitor. This will be crystal-clear and the resolution would be much better than a normal TV.
  2. use an S-Video connection. This will only work if you have an S-Video output on your laptop; it’s a round connector that looks somewhat like a mouse port. This is what an S-Video connection looks like: http://support.axiolearning.org/images/kyc/laptop/svideo.jpg
    The problem you run into is whether or not you have a TV that has an S-Video input. A few years ago, these were pretty scarce, and now they are on any high-end TV, but a generic $50 TV from the local K-Mart won’t have an S-Video in. I don’t know if it is possible to convert from S-Video to composite (which is the technical term for the yellow-red-white A/V plugs you’re used to); I think you just short the chroma and luma pins together on an S-Video connection (that is, if you have an S-Video cable to destroy).

In short, you probably want to either find a projector, monitor, or watch the webcasts on your laptop screen. Sorry.

JBot

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Image(http://edifier.ca/eshop/images/L221MF.jpg) These S-Video to Composite are very nice. . . . You can also find ones that have like a 6 inch cable. . . I believe I got mine at Wal-Mart??? http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?A=details&Q=&is=REG&O=productlist&sku=329971

for sound you can get a cable like Image(http://www.tvcables.co.uk/images/items/AD009.jpg) that plugs into your headphone port and splits the sound into left and right stereo. Then you can just buy an extender cable to run from your computer to TV. . .

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Looks like your computer does have a s-vid output, I’d suggest going with that, but before you spend the bucks (something like this will set you back 25 or so bucks) realize that text will be almost unreadable unless you have a HDTV or something with a crystal-clear display.