My laptop dont have a TV-Out (S-video) port but i want to connect it to our TV to view movies...Is there a inexpensive device/converter available which connects to the USB port and have a TV out?. Pls help. thanks.
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This is a great idea but has HUGH draw backs. because of the nature of the TV's resolution. I would not recommend you do this unless you have a HDTV. Forget looking at texted on your TV it will not be legalible. However if you want to still do it here is a link below. I use SVGA to HDTV projection converter and you can see the text and that works great. My personal appion is I would not do it unless you have a HDTV.
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Yeah, chances are your video card s-video connector is an output, not an input.  You can get any TV-capture device and it should support s-video.  Personally, I swear by ATI All-in-wonder cards, but any PCI video capture card will do the trick.
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You can buy an external TV capture card for your laptop.  This will allow you to record video from a variety of sources, such as your TV, S-video, and composite video.  And it comes with software to do this.  The quality of the video depends on a couple of things, such as your CPU speed, hard drive space, and what video and audio codecs you have.  Codecs can be downloaded if you need to off a variety of websites.\n\nI've been using the Happaque TV-USB card for many years and am very happy with it.   Which one you ultimately choose is up to you, but there are a wide variety of choices that all do the same thing.  Some however allow you to pause, while others don't.  Some record in HD quality, others don't.  But they all record in MPEG 1 or 2, which is a web standard.
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You would need to purchase something called a TV Tuner Card.  Some of them come with remote controls and decent ones usually cost, at most, about $30.  If you have a laptop or you don't have an available PCI slot to install it, you can get external USB TV Tuner Cards, as well.\n\nSome graphics cards come with NTSC and Digital tuners built in.  You do not necessarily need to replace the entire graphics card.  \n\nHere's a cheap internal PCI one with a remote\n\nhttp://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1698860&CatId=1427\n\nHere is an external.  They are generally more expensive.\n\nhttp://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1961041&CatId=0
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It would be more useful if you listed the model of your laptop, or what kind of connections it has.\n\nMost laptops nowadays have S-video out, so that would be the easiest if you have that.  As for sound, you would just plug some speakers into your headphone jack.\n\nIf your laptop doesn't have S-video, you could always get something like this as well:\n\nhttp://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=GXP-2000-PB&cpc=SCH\n\nThat will take your VGA signal and convert it to RCA so you can hook it up to your TV.
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If your laptop has a yellow video port, with an RCA jack connection, just use a common video cable to hook the laptop's yellow plug with the yellow plug on the TV.  \nIf your laptop has only the external monitor port, you probably won't be able to connect the two without an adapter.
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There are even USB TV tuners that you can buy.\nI would recommend on buying the USB TV tuner. I've "heard" that they are better than the PCMCIA ones. \nAnother reason on buying the USB one instead of the PCMCIA one is that because it's USB you can connect it on any desktop with USB. \n\nYahoo now is advertising a good USB Card for their Yahoo Go.\nhttp://go.connect.yahoo.com/go/tv/get_started\n\nAnd here is a USB model TV Tuner http://go.connect.yahoo.com/go/tv/dvr
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Umm...if computers weren't meant to be used with televisions, then why would they make video cards with TV-Out connections and have developed Media Center to be more easily integrated with you Home Theater System?  How do people upload their home movies to the internet from VHS and watch ripped backups of DVDs, etc. on their television directly from their hard drive?   DUH\n\nI apologize for the irrelevance to the question.
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If your laptop has an available PCMCIA slot, you could use a PCMCIA TV Tuner Card.  Its so much more portable than a USB tuner, and you won't have to plug in your TV tuner or pull it out whenever you want to pack up your laptop. You could just leave it in its slot.\n\nAnd about Internet TV - THEY'RE DIFFERENT from regular TV that are broadcasted via air/cable. Sure there are several thousand Internet TV stations, but these are just from small studios with programs and shows that you'd be unfamiliar with, a lot is in foreign language. Programs broadcasted via air are usually not available in Internet TV
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Unfortunately you can't.\nThe video-outs you have are the only ones you can use, so you are limited to the laptop monitor and one external is you have a VGA or S-video output.
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This type of device has been around for a couple of years now.   Any video card with VIVO (video in/video out) will do a better job, as this device uses immense amounts of processor time to convert the video.\n\ncheck here:\n\nhttp://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_tlc.asp?CatId=1423
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you need a tv tuner card, if you dont have one install one or you can get an external card that allows you to have the computer recieve satellite signal.   heres a good link on the explanation of the external tv tuner:  http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/external-pc-tv-theor/index.html
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I am assuming that:\nYou want to use your TV as your only monitor.\nYou use Windows XP.\n\nFirst, I would like to warn you that a computer screen image on a TV is not clear and often hard to see. This is caused by the fact that non-HD TVs have considerably less screen resolution than most computer monitors. However, if you only want to watch movies, the picture quality should be the same.\n\nThe red, white, and yellow connections are called composite. If both your computer and TV have them I see no reason why you cannot use a cable to connect them (as long as the connections are going out on your computer and in on your TV). You probably should check your computer’s and/or video card’s owner’s manual to be sure that the connections on your computer are out.\n\nOnce you are sure that you have the correct connections and you have the cables you need; turn off your computer, unplug your monitor (if you have one plugged in), and plug the cables in. Then turn your computer on. I think this will accomplish what you want. \n\nIf you have any questions, feel free to contact me using the link on my Q&A page.\n\nIf this answer doesn’t help, please provide more information such as:\nDo you want to use your TV as your only monitor, have your TV and monitor display identical images, or use a type of dual view? \nWhat OS are you using?\nWhat video card do you use?\nAnd anything else that may be relevant.
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I asked the same kinda thing. I have a PCMIA card and a Dell laptop that won't support it. I was thinking that there would be a converter, or at least something that might plug it into the USB port. There should be aconverter, though.
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There are several good tuner solutions on the market today, but I haven't personally used any that are external and use USB. \n\nI think plextor makes a good USB SD solution:\nhttp://www.plextor.com/english/products/product_dvc.html\n\nHauppauge also makes a USB SD solution:\nhttp://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvrusb2.html\n\nThe only HDTV capable capture cards on the market do *not* support windows. But, they work great in linux and are extremely well supported by the mythtv (PVR) project & community.\n\nThe HD capture cards are made by the pcHDTV company.  \nhttp://www.pchdtv.com/ \nthe pcHDTV™ HD-3000 is thier latest & greatest.\n\nAs far as windows goes, the best cards are made by the hauppauge company.\nhttp://www.hauppauge.com/\nThey have several cards that you might look at (if you can add a PCI card instead of USB device).  I personally recommend the WinTV-PVR-350 as a first card.  It comes with a remote and uses hardware on the card to do the encoding (saves CPU bandwidth) and if you choose to use it for video out, it also has a hardware encoder.\n\n\nCheck out these links for an open source PVR project:\n\nhttp://www.mythtv.org/\nhttp://www.mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html\n\nWell, I hope that helps.
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The cost of what your trying to do is not worth it, the easy way to do what you want is buy a USB TV  converter, about $45 or even cheaper, install it, then plug your video cable RCA jack on the converter,run the TV scan with your game console plugged in and you should have the screen on your laptop and just set it for full screen, or better yet use your TV and or VCR.... But if you do what i said you can also use your VCR to your laptop for converting VCR movies on to DVD's... Cool
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Most laptops have a function key combination that enables the video to be displayed on a) the monitor only  b) external device or c) both simultaneously. First look for a function key on your laptop keyboard (usually one left of the Windows key), then look for a function key along the top row of F1 - F10/11/12 keys and look for an icon that looks display related, or it may say CRT/LCD. Press the Fn key then the CRT/LCD key (on my keyboard, a Dell Inspiron, it is on the F8 key) and wait a few seconds. Look at your screen and the projector screen to see what happens. If it displays you're set. If not press the key combination again. \n\nYou should verify that the cables from the projector are properly connected first obviously.\n\nOn the codec question, if the video is playing properly on your computer screen then it is not a codec issue. Codec has nothing to do with sending video/audio signal to an external monitor or projector, so you should be fine on that front.\n\nGood luck.