Details of TV-Out in 6625

I believe Rene or someone else posted a while ago that in the near future, Zepto were going to replace the S-video out with an HDMI port. When will this take place, and if you get a newer version, how will you connect your laptop to an SDTV?

Thanks

 

I dont think connecting a laptop to a normal tv is usefull. What are you going to play on the tv? use the laptop as a DVD player?

No one really knows when the HDMI port will come. A zepto person posted somewhere that he think or better guesses that it might come in August together with a HD DVD drive option and maybe blueray.

 

Well I quite often find with this crappy Acer that I want to play stuff I downloaded or do slideshows or whatever on TVs, but I can't. Also if I had a TV tuner it would be neat to use the laptop as a PVR or whatever.

I do actually have a VGA-S-vid/compos/component adaptor, but it doesn't work on this Acer. It does however work on my dad's HP laptop, but that has an s-vid out anyway. I guess that sort of thing could maybe work on a Zepto.

 

Laptops (all laptops not just Zepto) tend to have a VGA output with a weak and low quality signal when compared to a desktop card. Maybe that is why it doesnt work on your Acer. Impossible to tell if it will work with the 6625 without trying it.

I still think HDMI will be alot more usefull because then you can connect DVI monitors and HDMI TVs.

 

Yeah, but quite a few HDTVs have a VGA port (like my grandparents', which is the only TV I can connect my Acer to). But the majority of people still have SDTVs, and will do for the next few years (lifespan of this notebook). I think it would be a better idea for Zepto to keep both these ports really.

 

The zepto notebooks will get there HDMI-out approximatly in august

 

OK but I just think they should keep S-video too.

 

I completely agree, would be really useful to have both. Can anyone from Zepto clarify what the future plans are?

 

is it means that we can connect to PS3 or XBOX360 to play game, right?

I MEAN;connect PS3 to notebookscreen

 

No

This is TV Out

You need a TV tuner to do that and even then it's laggy


I hope Rene or ZeptoUK come in here soon to answer our questions

 

What question do you have?

Once HDMI comes out it will replace the TV-out. The HDMI will be in the place on the laptop where TV-out is now.

 

That gives us another reason to look closer at the Asus G1

or if there is some other port that will let you connect your lappy to SDTV easily that I'm not aware of?

 

Well as I said earlier there is a VGA-to component composite s-video that I have, it works with my dad's HP laptop which also has an S-vid, but not my Acer which is sans any TV out.

However there is that other compal I think it was notebook that hasnt been released yet, in the other thread, that seems to have a TV out.

 

Is that the one the other version that zepto was gonna rls under a different name? Would it both have hdmi and tvout?

 

Yeah. It doesn't look as good, but it has a 9-cell battery option... But it doesn't have HDMI. That's why I think Zepto should probably have kept the S-video as well as the HDMI on the 6625.