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Help with new tv please
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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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? Quote:
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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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). Here is what I just read: http://www.ehow.com/how_6467094_use-...laptop-tv.html |
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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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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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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 All modern TV's have HDMI, does your Laptop (many modern ones do). |
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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 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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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. OP - Make and model of your TV would be really useful or a picture of the connection panel. |
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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.
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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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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.
![]() It even only has two HDMI sockets!. Quote:
What about getting an s video to scart kit like this: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...tchlink:top:en Also, what are you wanting to do with the laptop, S-Video is only poor quality to start with. |
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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. |
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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.
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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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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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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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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Leave your sky hd box resolution set on 1080i
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