Help hooking my laptop up to the TV

I've got an acer travelmate, and I'd quite like to get it to output to the TV

I don't really know much about these sorts of wires and things, but I know I've got VGA out, and a regular headphone-out port on the laptop. the TV has an s-video in, and regular rca audio dudes (it's a JVC av-27f802)

So I need some kind of VGA to SVideo cord? and then an RCA connector for audio (i think I have one of these.. like this)

and where might i acquire needed cords for cheap? (i'm in ontario, btw)

and then i just plug-em in, press the Fn F5 key and we're good to go? or what?

(apologies if this isn't the right forum..)

 

Does your laptop has an S-Video output? And S-Video port is circular, large and has a pattern of holes in?

S-VIDEO



You may also have a composite video output, which is circular large, yellow, and has a large hole in the middle.

COMPOSITE



In this picture the composite port is on the far right.

If have either port simply use an S-Video or Composite Video (yelllow) cable cable to hook up the Acer and the TV and then use the video output quick key on your keyboard which is FN + ..... (a laptop/TV symbol will be on one of the keys in a different colour). Then flick through all the AV input channels on your TV.

If you don't have a Composite or S-Video cable, you'll need an adapter cable:

http://www.computercasesandcables.com/ccc/CV-25120.html

However, I don't like these kinds of adapter cables. I always doubt over their perfromance. Quote from the site:


NOTE: Note Though this adapter works with most video cards, some video cards do not support this adapter.



For Sound, you can use that cable you thought about using (The 3.5mm Audio port cable to RCA. You can use that cable to connect directly to your TV's internal speakers or you can connect that to an amplifier.

OR

you can use a 3.5mm to a 3.5mm cable to connect to some ordinary external speakers:

http://www.tvcables.co.uk/cgi-bin/tvcables/35mm2.html



Hope this helps,
Mayz

 

thanks, that was very useful . i just have the vga so i guess i need to get a conversion cable and hope to high hell it'll work.

 

No problem...feel free to leave a REP point