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PC to TV - VGA straight to RCA?

  • I've been looking around and found stuff like converter boxes for VGA or RCA or whatever, but I was wondering if there's something that would go directly from VGA to RCA - I think I have the right names, if I don't (hahaha) when I say VGA I mean that blue thing on the back of my laptop with places to screw something in on either side, and three offset rows of 5 pinholes. When I say RCA, I mean those cords where it splits into three colors, yellow, red, and white. Anyways, the TV I want to connect it to is kind of old and doesn't have an S-Video input spot (well, the littler converter-ish box thing we have does have a 4-pin one), and my computer doesn't have the output, so yeah. Do you know of anything? Or an alternative to it that makes more sense? I am by no means saying I'll accept VGA to RCA only. Dunno if this helps, but the TV is a "Sanyo" (doesn't have more details than that) and my computer is a Dell Latitude D630

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    if you just want to watch movies then it would be easier to just buy a cheap dvd player that plays divx and then just buy some cdrs or buy a few cdr-rw's so you could just reuse the cds over and over again. heres a cheap dvd player that plays Divx: http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=11064254 basically any dvd player that says it can play Divx or MPEG-4 will work.

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The yellow, red, and white cables with RCA connectors are called A/V, or Audio/Video. They are a step up from straight TV cable, but I don't know of any adapter or piece of equipment that would convert from VGA to A/V. My recommendation is that you get a new, Hi-Def TV, even if you don't yet subscribe to any HDTV service or don't have a Blu-Ray DVD player. We had to do that when our old Sony TV suddenly gave up the ghost after 25 years of faithful service! Most good Hi-Def TVs should have a VGA input in the back; both my wife's MacBook and my HP laptop work well with ours. By the way, I think you chose a good laptop with the Dell Latitude. I have a Dell desktop. Space Turkey.

Space Turkey

VGA to composite video cables work ONLY if your PC video card can output composite video over VGA (RAre), otherwise you need a converter box. By the way, watching a PC display in standard-def is hopeless (and very bad quality), so I would say, why bother?

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It sounds like your Sanyo TV only has composite input (the yellow RCA jack next to the red and white audio jacks). Since the laptop has s-video out, you can use an s-video to composite adapter like this: http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=s-video+to+composite+adapter&cid=14805273184270746514&sa=title#p Get a male-to-female RCA extension cable to make it longer. If you want sound too, use a stereo 3.5mm headphone plug to RCA plug cable: http://www.monoprice.com/products/search.asp?spcDB=10218&spcWord=Audio+Cables+-+RCA+/+3.5mm&keyword=3.5mm%20rca But I think you will be very disappointed with the video quality shown on your TV. Okay for photos and video, but it won't be anything like the laptop display. Composite video is terrible quality.

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