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Old 12-09-2012, 14:15
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I just got my new 42" Full Hd TV today and have two questions.

What is the best setting to have my sky HD box on, 720p or 1080i?

Secondly I used to connect my laptop to my old tv with a RGB cable and another cable for the sound. This tv doesn't have those outputs/inputs. It has a USB port though. Could I get a USB cable plug that into my laptop and then the other side into the tv and watch content on my laptop that way? Would it give me sound too?
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Old 12-09-2012, 14:20
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I just got my new 42" Full Hd TV today and have two questions.

What is the best setting to have my sky HD box on, 720p or 1080i?
1080i - there's no point in 720P at all, it just means it's wrong on everything. But by all means try both, and see which YOU prefer - it's a personal customer setting.


Secondly I used to connect my laptop to my old tv with a RGB cable and another cable for the sound. This tv doesn't have those outputs/inputs. It has a USB port though. Could I get a USB cable plug that into my laptop and then the other side into the tv and watch content on my laptop that way? Would it give me sound too?
No you can't - most TV's still have VGA sockets, are you sure this one doesn't? (possibly via an adaptor).
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Old 12-09-2012, 14:28
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1080i - there's no point in 720P at all, it just means it's wrong on everything. But by all means try both, and see which YOU prefer - it's a personal customer setting.



No you can't - most TV's still have VGA sockets, are you sure this one doesn't? (possibly via an adaptor).
I've just been reading and on E How it says to use an S Video USB cable. The S video part going into the laptop and the usb bit to the tv. Would that work?

Here is what I just read:
http://www.ehow.com/how_6467094_use-...laptop-tv.html
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Old 12-09-2012, 14:31
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just checked and the tv has a big port with pins at the back and under that colured ones would that be for sound?
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Old 12-09-2012, 14:37
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just checked and the tv has a big port with pins at the back and under that colured ones would that be for sound?
What make and model is the TV?.
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Old 12-09-2012, 14:39
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I've just been reading and on E How it says to use an S Video USB cable. The S video part going into the laptop and the usb bit to the tv. Would that work?

Here is what I just read:
http://www.ehow.com/how_6467094_use-...laptop-tv.html
That sounds really poor quality, and if your Laptop has S-Video out you could connect that directly to the TV (which will probably have an S-Video input). But even at that the quality is poor - OK for watching a DVD, but not for using the TV as a computer monitor.

All modern TV's have HDMI, does your Laptop (many modern ones do).
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Old 12-09-2012, 14:52
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I've just been reading and on E How it says to use an S Video USB cable. The S video part going into the laptop and the usb bit to the tv. Would that work?

Here is what I just read:
http://www.ehow.com/how_6467094_use-...laptop-tv.html
Whatever it is (and I notice the article doesn't link to anything remotely resembling a S-Video to USB device) it will not be a cable. There is absolutely no way to connect S-Video to USB with a simple bit of wire.

You would need a bunch of electronics in the way. I can find loads of USB video capture devices intended to allow a video and audio signal to be converted into a file on a PC. But nothing that would allow a S-Video signal to be converted to some sort of format that a TV designed to stream video files off a storage device (hard drive or flash memory stick) could use. I would seriously doubt a video capture device would work on a TV. How would you load the drivers for one thing!

Would have been nice to see even a picture of such a device in that article. So you do wonder how reliable it is.
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Old 12-09-2012, 15:16
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Whatever it is (and I notice the article doesn't link to anything remotely resembling a S-Video to USB device) it will not be a cable. There is absolutely no way to connect S-Video to USB with a simple bit of wire.

You would need a bunch of electronics in the way. I can find loads of USB video capture devices intended to allow a video and audio signal to be converted into a file on a PC. But nothing that would allow a S-Video signal to be converted to some sort of format that a TV designed to stream video files off a storage device (hard drive or flash memory stick) could use. I would seriously doubt a video capture device would work on a TV. How would you load the drivers for one thing!

Would have been nice to see even a picture of such a device in that article. So you do wonder how reliable it is.
AFAIK The only way to connect s-video to USB would be to do an analogue to digital conversion and encoding it in divx, mkv or other format supported by the TV, dumping that conversion onto a file system and then connecting to the TV as a storage device. TV do not understand USB for streaming, only as a mount point for media.

OP - Make and model of your TV would be really useful or a picture of the connection panel.
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Old 12-09-2012, 15:40
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AFAIK The only way to connect s-video to USB would be to do an analogue to digital conversion and encoding it in divx, mkv or other format supported by the TV, dumping that conversion onto a file system and then connecting to the TV as a storage device. TV do not understand USB for streaming, only as a mount point for media.
I clicked on a few other links on that website, none of those made any sense either - it seems a totally bizarre site?.
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Old 12-09-2012, 17:16
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Thanks for the replies. The model is LG 42CS460 and it has 2 HDMI ports and one scart port then loads of those coloured phono type ports I dunno what they are tbh.

What about getting an s video to scart kit like this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...tchlink:top:en
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Old 12-09-2012, 19:52
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Thanks for the replies. The model is LG 42CS460 and it has 2 HDMI ports and one scart port then loads of those coloured phono type ports I dunno what they are tbh.
Unfortunately, it's a really low spec TV, and has very few inputs at all

It even only has two HDMI sockets!.


What about getting an s video to scart kit like this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...tchlink:top:en
Does your laptop have S-Video out?.

Also, what are you wanting to do with the laptop, S-Video is only poor quality to start with.
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Old 13-09-2012, 12:18
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Unfortunately, it's a really low spec TV, and has very few inputs at all

It even only has two HDMI sockets!.



Does your laptop have S-Video out?.

Also, what are you wanting to do with the laptop, S-Video is only poor quality to start with.
Is it a bad tv? I admit the back has hardly any ports compared to my previous model but what about the rest of it? Is it rubbish?
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Old 13-09-2012, 12:33
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Would have been nice to see even a picture of such a device in that article. So you do wonder how reliable it is.
It's fantastic. The step by step instructions are just what you need to know to plug a cable from one thing into another thing, if you've never before attempted such a complex operation.

Sadly, it's a bit lacking on the technical details of the required cable and associated software.

It reminded me a bit of "How to rid the world of all known diseases".
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Old 13-09-2012, 18:35
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Is it a bad tv? I admit the back has hardly any ports compared to my previous model but what about the rest of it? Is it rubbish?
It'll be fine for your Sky+HD box (via HDMI), but I suspect it's inbuilt Freeview picture won't be up to much.
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Old 13-09-2012, 18:58
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Is it a bad tv? I admit the back has hardly any ports compared to my previous model but what about the rest of it? Is it rubbish?
It's made down to a price - hence the lack of many inputs.
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Old 13-09-2012, 19:14
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Thanks for the replies. The model is LG 42CS460 and it has 2 HDMI ports and one scart port then loads of those coloured phono type ports I dunno what they are tbh.

What about getting an s video to scart kit like this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...tchlink:top:en
If your phono port are coloured red, green, blue, red and white then they will be component inputs. Used to be good and used by the early Xboxes but has now mostly been superseded by HDMI.
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Old 15-09-2012, 14:34
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Leave your sky hd box resolution set on 1080i
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