Laptop to TV connection....ummm ????

Hi Folks,

Greetings and Happy Thanksgiving to y'all. I own a Dell Latitude 610 Laptop. I do worship and music workshops in churches here in the Alabama/ Georgia area and sometimes, I go to churches in the country areas where they might only have a TV. Some of these churches are not high tech as yet. I do a lot of power point and visual presentations during my workshops and I also show DVD clips. How would you suggest I go armed and ready to be able to hook up my Dell laptop to any kind of TV to show not only the power point and video of any DVD I might be showing but also have the audio (in the case of a DVD presentation) come through clear enough to the hearers?

Now, my Dell has an S-VIDEO and obviously VGA. A friend of mine was recommending that I walk with a cord with VGA on one side and RG59 on the other end. I guess the RG59 is what most TV's have, which is the input area where a high speed cable TV line is usually connected. Also too, many older TV's have S VIDEO input. With more modern HD Tv's I won't have a problem here but I just wanted to be overally ready wherever I go to do my workshop training sessions that I can connect this laptop to any TV in any situation. Another friend of mine suggested a CONVERTER BOX................ and if so I need a good one. Any suggestions?

I would appreciate any feed back here. Looking forward to your replies. Thanks much. By The way, just today, my wife bought me a Gigaware PC to TV converter. Do y'all know about how good this is for what I wanna do as I have described above?

 

Well for most compatable have an S-vid cable, and a headphone to dual RCA audio cable. an s-vid to RCA cable and a VGA cable, that should cover most bases. an s-vid to coax will be useless as s-vid does not output a tunable signal but a line out analog video signal.

this way ANY tv with the yellow/red/white inputports will work great for you

the gigaware MAY help I dont know much about it but here have a read

http://www.radioshack.com/pwr/produ.../2756876-Gigaware-reg-PC-to-TV-Converter.html

 

http://www.weethet.nl/english/video_connect_pc2tv.php
if you connect S-video to Scart
it may end up showing a black and white image. that's because you need to see the image in the AV-S <- channel. not in the AV. some tv's don't have AV-S. you can bypass it though.
http://camp0s.altervista.org/sVideo/conn2.jpg

remind you that you can't mix analog and digital signals, you need a converter. S-video, SCART, RCA are analogic; HDMI, VGA, DVI are digital.

 

S-Video to RCA, with a Audio Out to RCA

 

Here http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-12-FT-S-VIDEO-AUDIO-TO-3-RCA-CABLE-COMPUTER-TO-TV_W0QQitemZ300372899462QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item45ef9eb686

 

CrazyCanuk has got the basics covered. That's about it.