Displaying Dell Notebook Screen on TV

So I just bought a Dell laptop - won't bore you with the details other than it's a 1705 with lots of garbage in it.

What I want to do, is this: Sit on my couch and use a bluetooth keyboard + mouse to work on my notebook, which is on a shelf near the TV and use the TV as the display.

I wanna display my computer on my TV.

This thing has outputs up the arse, and I am not looking to play games or anything just surf the web and do emails.

What product is best to get to display this on my TV? It's an old-school 27" tube tv. No hdtv. Has s-video and component inputs, along with others.

THANKS

 

you could likely use S-Video easily enough to directly connect, but I highly doubt the text will be near readable on an old tube TV, or anything besides hi-def really, just too low resolution.

 

Really? You think? Why not!

 

Because of the resolution on the TV, he said, and he is right.

 

Yes, your 27" TV screen is bigger than your 17" laptop screen, but chances are your TV can't even display the native resolution of your laptop (it certainly can't if you got any of the upgraded display options), so you'll have massive blurry looking icons, etc. on your TV. An S-Video cable would do the job (you'll probably have to restart with it plugged in to get the resolutions to work with each other), but I don't understand why you would waste such a nice display on the e1705.

 

"why you would waste such a nice display on the e1705.?"

I think because he has the wireless keyboard and mouse. If your TV has an S-Video input on it, it can't be that "ancient".

Hell, buy an S-Video cable for $8 and give it a shot.

Please let me now if it's decent enough to use.

I was thinking about carrying an S-Video cable in my travel case to watch DVD's in the Hotel through my Laptop. Didn't know there would be a TV resolution issue. Dam.

 

Well, there wouldn't be an issue with running DVDs, as those are fairly low resolution anyway, and they would fill up the entire TV screen and look nice and big for you. The problem would come with what the original poster wants to do with it - surf the web and read emails...everything would be unbearably large (I guess at least in my opinion).

And it really doesn't matter if the TV is "ancient" or brand new...if it has a low resolution (which a "old-school 27" tube tv" certainly does), it's still not going to look that good running as a computer monitor.

 

Thanks for all your messages. I have an S-video cable already so I'll just give that a shot.

I know my laptop has a killer display, I thought it would be fun to hook it up to the TV. Just something fun I wanted to try. I don't already have a bluetooth keyboard and mouse. I just thought it would be cool to have people come in and I'd be like "I got a new laptop" and turn on the tv instead and have the keyboard and mouse on the coffee table.

Thanks again -

 

Bostonguy -- if you already have the S Video cable and the inputs on the TV and the Laptop, what are you waiting for Dude?!

Kidding, I am really curious how DVD movies, the MCE, etc will show up on the TV.

Please give us a review on whatever(web, e-mail) you try viewing on the TV.

 

S-Video works fine - I use that as well.

But don't expect to do your word processing on it as the fonts are terrible and almost not viewable. I normally use my notebook's S-Video for hooking up to my 34" CRT TV to watch DivX/XviD movies. That's all what the S-Video is good for for a PC.

Since you spent money on a new notebook, might as well spend a little bit more and buy yourself a good LCD. Nowadays 26" to 32" LCD TV sells extremely cheap...