SZ to TV

is it possible for my SZ to be connected to the TV and the TV to become the monitor?

if it is possible what cable do i need?

if it is not possible, what port should my SZ have to connect it to a TV?

 

What input does your TV accept ?

Component ? Composite ? Co-Ax ?

 

sorry cant answer your question. im really not good at this.
but it has the 3 circle color red white and yellow input (like every TV) where i connect my ps2/dvdplayr

 

Yellow, red and white is called composite...

The yellow is for video.

You need to find a way to convert your VGA to composite.

Remember that if your TV is standard definition, the final signal will only be 640 x 480.

 

red and white is for the sound

 

You basically need this type of cable: http://cgi.ebay.com/New-VGA-to-TV-C...714848729QQcategoryZ41999QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

You don't necessarily need one which has the black and yellow cable, the yellow is enough if you don't have the black connector on your TV.

You will need the adaptor and then a normal yellow cable connecting the adapter to the yellow tv-input

 

Definitely not too expensive to go the route that was suggested (the ebay auction). Now I have a question, does anyone know why if you connect via vga to the tv (my tv has a vga input), why when you play a video, won't it play it? eg. Everything works fine and Windows media player will show but its video screen is blank. I don't connect it very often so it's not too big of a deal, but I am just wondering. Thanks!

 

I just bought yesterday AVerKey lite which converts signal from VGA out to anything else (composite, s-video, etc.)
So this could be an option too.

 

@MinnDasota that sounds weird. So you're saying the video will show on your Laptop but not on the TV (black media player screen)? What type of file are you playing back? Have you tried using a different media player? I only encountered this phenomenon once, when I was playing back media with DRM protection.

 

MinnDasota, that's actually quite a common problem but its hard to explain how to solve it by text. What's happened is that the laptop screen is declared as the "primary" monitor and the tv screen is declared as the "secondary" monitor. So any video that you play will only show on the "primary" monitor and not on the "secondary" monitor (don't ask why). The obvious solution is to declare the tv screen as the primary monitor.

I'm not connected to a monitor right now so I'll have to guess how to solve it from lame memory. Right-click the desktop, and click properties (display settings) and then click on the "settings" tab. There should be two monitors (one the laptop screen and one the tv screen). One should have a "1" (primary) on it and the other a "2" (secondary). Just switch them and movies should play on your tv screen from now on (but not on your laptop screen!)

 

Many modern media players use something called "hardware overlay", which lets the graphics card draw video directly to the screen faster. The downside of this is that you can't take screenshots of the video easily and you can't output it to a TV, as you saw.

To turn it off, go to Tools -> Options -> Performance (tab) -> Advanced (button). Under the "Use video mixing renderer" checkbox, check "Use high quality mode" and NOT "Use overlays". Then stop and restart the movie and you should be able to see it on your TV.