S-video port: How to use it?

I purchased a Clevo M570u 3 or 4 months ago and am finally interested in finding out how to use what I assume to be the S-video output jack on the back of it. This is actually the first laptop i've ever owned, so I'd like to put some use to it. Would this be applicable to, say, putting a video game system that has an S-video input cord and thus using my laptop as a sort of "TV"?

 

I believe that S-Video out is a 7-pin and will require a converter to use the standard 4-pin S-Video cables.

After you connect the notebook to your chosen display (either a TV or external monitor), go into the Nvidia Control Panel

And set your display mode:
- Clone
- Dual View
- Span (Horizontally or Vertically)

Its very straight forward.

Fair warning though, the resolution for a non-HD display (analog TV) is very poor, so you might want to bring it down to 800x600 or 1024x768 to make it bearable.

 

Thanks again Gophn, you really seem to be helping me out today, haha.

 

Yeah the TV out is probably useless as you will want to watch DVDs on the beautiful screen anyway...

Only thing you might wanto try (which is somehow not very useful) is to plug in the cable in the TV tuner and output it to the TV (use your laptop as a VCR). You'll see that watching non HD TV content on the clevo is a bad experience as the 320x240 resolution scaled up to 1920x1200 add loads of pixelation.

So unless you watch TV on a small window while working there's not much useful thing to do with the TV output. Save it for Powerpoint presentation for example.

 

anyways I have used the S-Video Out on the back here, the manual and other such things suggest you need to use the 7 to 4 converter which I never got with in my box.. so I just pluged in svideo cable and it worked. GTA will even detect the other display and ask which to use..

I wouldn't just plug in the s-video like I did.. but It worked for me without some converter. I wonder what the extra pins are for anyways...

this is on a NTSC (USA) TV.

 

I did the same as Exatrive and just used a normal svideo cable.

Works fine

 

In and out info.. don't really understand.. just found in interesting.. and may explain why TV out works in the first place..