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    TV Out using my 1720

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Dman7, Jan 31, 2008.

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    Nah dude, it`s the one you need, but you overpayed. Could find it for about 5 bucks as I did.
     
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    Oh good, so this is the one the 1720 supports? Even though my TV has like every slot? Just double checking lol.

    And nah I didn't pay anything, Dell sent me a 25 dollar gift card, so I used that.
     
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    I randomly bought a svideo to tv out cable, and tried it on my tv, works ok, but at a max resolution of 1024x768 and the image doesn`t look all that great.
    I was thinking about getting an hdmi cable,but boy is that expensive in my country (70-100 $).

    If you are ok with playing at 1024x768, that cable should be enough.
     
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    But are there better ones to use on my TV? Except HDMI because I don't have it? I want pretty decent picture quality, but if it's going to cost me alot, i'll pass. Are there any cheap VGA to whatever is below HDMI ones? lol
     
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    na, hdmi ports the hd quality, svideo goes with lower ones.
    I said it`s not that good sine I`ve seen an hdmi porting ,and that was awesom; from that perspective i say svideo is not that great,because I saw perfection :p but svideo is ok,i`ve playet gta on a 44' TV on 1024 and boy was that ever cool...
     
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    So I got the cable, but it's literally like 7 inches long, do i need some sort of extention?
     
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    ouch, should`ve been longer than that. Well, you`ll just have to place the laptop right next to the TV I guess...
     
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    Well, it looks like the adaptor..it's the s video end that goes into my laptop, and then an adaptor that has 4 slots to put green, blue, red, and black wires into...do I need to buy those wires? which would then go into my TV
     
    Dman7, Feb 2, 2008
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