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How do I connect my projector to my laptop?

How to connect laptop to home theatre output to projector?

  • I have a home theatre system (Denon), a laptop pc, a Nintendo Wii, a DVD player and I want to project them all from the home theatre system to a Dell Projector. The Wii and DVD are working fine with Composite cables in the theatre. My laptop has only a S-Video in common with the home theatre and I plugged in one of the open slots. I changed the laptop to project to Monitor/TV and also tried projecting to Monitor/CRT. I changed the source on the home theatre thru every setting and never could get the laptop to display. The projector always just says "searching for source". It's connected to the Home Theatre with a single video component cable. The home theatre manual is very user-unfriendly so I'm pushing buttons on the thing trying to get it to work. Does anyone know what I need to do?

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    If your projector has a HDMI in you might try that one. Your notebook most likely has a DVI out (DVI-I or DVI-D ... both would work), which is technically compatible to HDMI. There are adapter cables ... of course they don't transmit sound and many DVI outs don't support hdcp copy protection, but as long as you don't want to play copy-protected blu-ray discs on your notebook the lack of hdcp support would be irrelevant. The quality would also be multiple dimensions ahead of s-video. ;) If that's not an option (for example if your projector doesn't have a hdmi in) you could check whether your notebook came with some component ot composite video adapter and check wheter that works. It should be working anyway. If not try mailing the company that built that notebook ... if the S-Video in on your projector works (test with some other device) the cause may be a driver issue or a hardware problem with your tv out. btw: Before you consider that you may just try setting it to TV/Monitor (= setting the tv as the primary device) and in clone mode or whatever the drivers for your graphics adapter call it. ;)

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When you plug the laptop directly into the projo, is it into the vga input or is it the s-video input. If it is the vga input, are you sure the s-video output of your laptop is configured? If the S-video output of your laptop is working then plug it into an input in the denon receiver. Most denon receivers need the inputs assigned which mean you have to program what source goes to which input.Its possible the s-video input you plugged it into wasn't assigned. The manual if you have it clearly explains how to do this.

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