I’ve connected my laptop to my TV using and HDMI cable and everything appears to be working well other then the fact that when the picture is displayed on my TV, it only fills a small section of the screen in the middle. How do I get the picture to show on the whole tv screen? Any help would be greatly appreciated! 
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I have an s-video cord but I get no image when it’s plugged into my tv. Help!!!
Go into settings on the laptop and enable dual monitors.
my tv does not have hdmi but im watching hd through components with my dish network dvr, are there anyway or how can i hook up my laptop through hdmi cable to the dvr then use the component cables to use my laptop on my tv.
Hi Michael, I am not really sure what you are trying to do. If you are trying to add your laptop between the DISH Network receiver and your TV, it will not work. I cannot think of any connectors or add-on’s that you can place in this set-up to make it work. I wish I could be of more assistance.
I would like to purchase HD movies on iTunes and using a connection cable, I plan to connect my laptop to my television. My laptop, however, is not an HD laptop. Will this effect the quality of the movie when watched on my tv, causing it to show regularly rather than HD? Thanks so much if anyone can help.
No, you don’t. When you hook up the laptop to the tv, you will have to change the display settings. On the desktop, right click and select "Screen resolution" this will allow you to adjust the display settings. You will want to click on the drop down box to change your primary display to the t.v., and when you do that, it should automatically change the resolution to the highest supported resolution.
i have been trying to plug my laptop into my new LG lcd tv to test it out for karaoke on new year , but it keeps making the noise that happens when you plug in a USB stick and the picture keeps going off then back on , dose anyone know how to fix this problem ?
What connection are you using to connect it to the tv?
VGA: Try different resolutions and extend the windows (I presume) desktop onto the tv. Start - Control Panel - Display - Settings Tab - (drop down menu 2nd choice TV) - Extend windows desktop check box.
You could try the Ultramon utility: http://realtimesoft.com/ultramon/
I’m trying to watch a tv show that I downloaded on my laptop on my HD tv. I connected the two with a HDMI cable and I get the picture to show up just fine but the sound is coming out of my laptop speakers and not out of my tv. My laptop doesn’t have a very good sound system so I was wondering how I would fix this so that my tv plays the sound. Can anyone help me out?
Audio is ordinarily not optioned to the HDMI jack on a computer, but you can change that on some of them. Look in the Control Panel or elsewhere in the computer for a way to route audio to the HDMI connection.
If that doesn’t work, this will:
1. Examine the HDMI connectors on your TV. One of them should have a pair of red/white RCA jacks immediately adjacent to it. Those are there for situations like this.
2. Get a 3.5 mm headphone jack adapter similar to the ref below. Insert the 3.5 mm plug into your computer’s headphone jack.
3. Using a pair of RCA cables, Connect the RCA jacks on the adapter to the RCA jacks next to the above HDMI input on your TV.
4. Use an HDMI cable to connect the same input to the HDMI output on your computer.
5. Select that HDMI input on your TV with its remote.
Problem solved.
I want to connect my pc laptop to an analog tv. My laptop is windows 7 os, and has a vga output, only my television does not, but has s-video connector. I tried to look around the internet but was not able to find anything really reliable. I know it’s possible just I am not sure, also any pre-warnings on what kind of situation I may face, and how much money I would spend to get this working.
you can get the adapters for 50c - http://www.amazon.com/TV-out-VGA-S-Video-Cable-Adapter/dp/B000P3UB24
There’s more at http://www.google.com/search?q=vga+to+s-video+adapter
Probably the most common way is to use a VGA extender rather than an S-video one…
http://www.google.com/search?q=vga+extender+cable
http://www.google.com/search?q=s+video+extender+cable
I have an IBM thinkpad Z60m, I connected the laptop to the TV using the cable, but I am unable to have any image or video output on the TV, any suggestions?
You need to tell the computer to output to video out, it is not always on.
There are a few ways to do this. One is to simply try hitting the "Fn" button along with the monitor button which is generally the "F5" button. There should be a little picture on it that looks like a monitor.
Alternatively, you can do it from the display properties, but every graphics adapter is different as to how to enable it. Try looking around in the "advanced" section for TV options.
Trying to record what video games im playing.
You can purchase a video capture card (which does what it’s name suggests) or a TV Tuner card.
USB Video Capture http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=USB+video+capture&x=0&y=0
USB TV Tuner http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010380047%201685342849&Tpk=USB%20TV%20Tuner
Now, most USB TV Tuner cards only have a Coax connection, which won’t work for what you need… so you are really looking at a Video Capture device.
Then, once you install it on your laptop, you just plug your game console into the video capture device, and start capturing.
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im getting 20" monitor for christmas that can somehow go o my laptop (crack on my laptop screen + this is cheaper and 3" bigger)
is their a way to mayb use a chord from tht to cnect my laptop to my new 55" TV just for a while? (its VIZO HDTV with HDMI)
thanks
You do not say what your laptop is or what output connections it has.
If it has HDMI then use that. That carries video and sound.
Your HDTV will have a VGA socket because as i am aware all HD tv’s are fitted with a vga socket..
Your laptop will almost certainly have a VGA output so the video can be connected that way but not sound. You will have to get a 3.5mm jack plug to RCA lead to carry the sound.
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