Re: FN-FORUM: Powerpoint Presentation on TV screen

date posted 3rd August 2007 10:42

Yup it's nearly lunch time on a Friday, which means cracking open a beer!


On 3/8/07 10:29, "space&time" [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:

>
> Now that's the kinda Friday forum reply i like...
>
> Someone asks a genuine question requiring help and hopes that a
> helpful response shall find itself to him, which it does,
> instead of the usual nasty reply of "Heh can you believe this guy
> works for Sharp Technologies yet can't figure out how to connect a
> laptop to a tv??
>
> Well done Forum people, the snipers much really appreciate that it is
> almost the wkend and to take it easy for once on those less in the
> know......for which on the grand scale of things in this world is no
> real crime.
>
> Simon
>
>
> On 3 Aug 2007, at 10:15, [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED]
> [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of
>>> [EMAIL REMOVED]
>>> Sent: 03 August 2007 10:03
>>> To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
>>> Subject: FN-FORUM: Powerpoint Presentation on TV screen
>>>
>>>
>>> Good morning,
>>>
>>> Is is possible to connect a laptop to a TV and use it as a monitor
>>> for
>>> displaying a power point presentation?
>>
>> Yes it is possible, but it's partly dependant on your laptop setup
>> as to how
>> you can do it. If your laptop has an S-Video out socket (like a
>> small DIN
>> plug with about five pins in it) then you can get an S-Video to
>> 'video'
>> adapter cable, I put 'video' in quotes because there's probably a
>> proper
>> name for it, but it's basically like a single phono lead that you
>> find in
>> the back of Hi-Fi's. This is dependant on your TV having a video-
>> in socket,
>> which not all do, but you may have just a SCART input instead, in
>> which case
>> you can get a video>SCART adapter as well and use that:
>>
>> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hama-SVHS-Phono-SCART-Switchable/dp/B00006JA46
>>
>> In fact that one I just found has sockets for both S-Video and 'video'
>> leads.
>>
>> If however your laptop doesn't have a video-out socket (either
>> phono or
>> S-Video style) then you could try something like this:
>>
>> http://www.keyzone.com/converters/grand-hv.htm
>>
>> - and just use the normal monitor output from the laptop (I'm
>> pretty sure
>> all laptops have these).
>>
>> HTH,
>> Phil
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