newby question but

**mediaman** · #1 02-12-2008, 06:21 PM

how good is the quality if you plug say your laptop into a standard tv and watch the football on that? I take it you would use the USB port from the laptop then go into the back of the telly. Anyone done it?

Cheers

Medianman

**adam_ayres1988** · #2 02-12-2008, 07:18 PM

I use a vga cable to do it and the quality is as good as it is on the laptop

**mediaman** · #3 03-12-2008, 06:21 PM

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Originally Posted by adam_ayres1988

I use a vga cable to do it and the quality is as good as it is on the laptop

sounds alright mate. I would only use it for games that were NOT on sky or setanta because I have those channels. Wud be looking for 3pm saturday ones but I take it the quality is still good?

Heers

**adam_ayres1988** · #4 03-12-2008, 06:30 PM

Yeah the quality is still good, but I did buy some speakers for my laptop so I can have it a bit louder

**KUBLA** · #5 03-12-2008, 06:37 PM

am sure one of the moderators on here keeps threatening to write a guide of how to do it.

**Tats** · #6 03-12-2008, 07:01 PM

aye and another one keeps meaning to buy a fecking lead to do it lol

**KUBLA** · #7 03-12-2008, 07:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Tats

aye and another one keeps meaning to buy a fecking lead to do it lol

fpmsl

aye but which lead!!!!!!!!!!

dooo doo dooo dooo doo doo

(x-files) until that mod gets his finger oot his arse

**Tats** · #8 03-12-2008, 07:18 PM

mrs went out for an hour today at 12 lol she did phone once to tell me the shop had no leads then again to say another shop had none 7 hours later i wonder if shes found one lmao.

EDIT/
Probley come back with a feckin dog lead

**KUBLA** · #9 03-12-2008, 07:24 PM

ffs tats sending yer missus oot for cables for a laptop and tv

its no a bottle of jack D and 12 Stella ya loon

**manUdave** · #10 03-12-2008, 08:29 PM

HDMI cable from teli to computer with a good graphics card & bobs your granny.

**Tats** · #11 03-12-2008, 08:36 PM

good idea but if you aint got a HDMI slot on your tv ya pretty much fooked

**stenelly** · #12 03-12-2008, 08:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Tats

good idea but if you aint got a HDMI slot on your tv ya pretty much fooked

tats tryed to tell you before you don't need hdmi slot with this it uses red white and yellow jack plugs or s video to connect to TVs`s as well
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?...3&TabID=1&QV=Y

**mediaman** · #13 03-12-2008, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by adam_ayres1988

Yeah the quality is still good, but I did buy some speakers for my laptop so I can have it a bit louder

well whats wrong with the speakers on your tv???

**Tats** · #14 03-12-2008, 09:50 PM

aye but i aint paying 30 quid just to get a bigger picture of something i can watch smaller on my laptop

**Tats** · #15 03-12-2008, 09:52 PM

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Originally Posted by mediaman

well whats wrong with the speakers on your tv???

Think he,s deaf in one eye and needs it realy loud to be able to hear it

**stenelly** · #16 03-12-2008, 10:14 PM

its brill for the whole family to sit and watch the latest films downloaded from the net without puting them onto dvd it`s a instant unlimited library of films

**adam_ayres1988** · #17 03-12-2008, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by mediaman

well whats wrong with the speakers on your tv???

VGA cable will use your speakers on your laptop as basically your tv becomes an extension of your monitor. So used some different speakers

**manUdave** · #18 03-12-2008, 11:20 PM

Fixed link

Mod edit: Should work now.

**manUdave** · #19 03-12-2008, 11:31 PM

Dont know why link wont work. You'l have to just copy & paste. This link is off mike.

**Begbie** · #20 03-12-2008, 11:46 PM

Link in your post fixed, Dave.