All about connecting your, PC, Sat rec, DVD, Laptop or indeed "Whatever" to the...
Connecting this up will be easy. What you do is
get a yourself a set of the right, for your setup, cables. That uses EITHER one
of the formats, of these described, below. You will need, either, a THREE way
Cable, or three separate " Coaxial Cored" Cables with RCA PLUGS on them. Colored Yellow, (Video) Red, & White. (Audio) AV. OR If you haveSCART Connection Sockets, it's a big Black
Socket at rear of unit(s), you get a SCART
Cable.& It's all inside. Now some units, use a standard called Component Video, that uses, a Green, Red, & Blue Plugs. Also we have with the
"Component Video" it is marked "Y" "Pb" &
"Pr" these simply go color to color at BOTH ends, this is where the
Red, Green, & Blues, colored Ends, of the Wires, goes, remembering that
this is ALL only Video. With this method, you still must use the AV, red &
White, Audio, Inputs to get the "Sound" into the unit, with the
Component setup, you will also ,need, Two more Cables, for the AV Audio. these are, Red &White.(So with Component
Video there are 5 Cables/Plugs in all). In any event ALL Cables go Color to Color,
at each end, plugging into the corresponding Colored RCA Jacks, on
either machine, or VCR or TV. Now if you have SCART, then it simply plugs in
only one way. It is that simple. So connect up with the leads your set uses,
and select the correct "Input" from TV/Remote, it is NOT on a
"Channel" it will be on AV, AUX, and Press "Play" on
VCR/DVD whatever.... should be all go.
Right, well, IF your TV has a DB15 Female Plug on it then you CAN, connect it up
and it will work, as a second "Monitor". OR If the laptop, has a "Composite Video" a
Yellow RCA socket, then you can, connect to the TV's Composite IN. & it
will be a second monitor. Otherwise you cannot,
the VGA signal is NOT compatible with a TV's input. SOME cards have a connector
that plugs into the DB15 and to the TV, but they are "Special". In
saying that though you can "Micky Mouse" things together and get an
output, but it real poor quality, and disappointing results, there are various
posts on the net about doing this if you wish.
Remember DRIVERS, you also need the drivers installed & setup correctly in
order for the hardware to work. As a tip, When connecting to a TV, always
connect like this......First, plug all cables into TV's correct Video input(s).
Connect up the Sound, plug all cables into laptop, turn TV ON. NOW,
start the laptop, you should now soon see the an image.
NOTE: Some laptops & other devices, have HDMI out, sometimes, the AUDIO is
not passed through, the HDMI cable, & the Audio must be run from Audio/Line
OUT on laptop to AV IN on TV.Also some laptops have a socket that a
multi-way 4/5/6/7 pins. A connector plugs into this, you then can connect to
these connections, as you would normally. Also we have "Component
Video" marked "Y" "Pb" & "Pr" these simply
go color to color at BOTH ends, this is where the Red, Green, & Blues,
colored Ends, of the Wires, goes, remembering that this is ALL only Video. With
this method, you still must use the AV, red & White, Audio, Inputs to get
the "Sound" into the unit
At the rear or side of the PC there should be
either or both of a 15 Pin DIN Plug, HDMI socket. or a Yellow RCA or 4 -7 pin
DIN. Now IF these are present then YES you can connect to a TV. Now some TV's
have a connector a DB15 MALE, so that the cable from the PC to the TV, is DB15.
this plugs in directly, with appropriate DB15 cable. This, however, will ONLY
take the VIDEO to the TV, Audio is delivered via the "Audio Out" Jack
on PC, and Plugged into the AV Sockets on the TV, with a dual cored coaxial
cable, they are Red & White. Some PC's also have a Yellow RCA Connector, OR
a 4 -7 Pin DIN Socket, that requires a Special Adapter Cable (That generally
came with the unit, and are colored and marked as to output) to use, for
Video/Audio Out to TV. This signal is Composite or SVHS Video & Stereo Out.
This connects up TO the TV's Composite/SVHS input Jacks and the Red & White
Audio IN, RCA Jacks, &/or DIN SVHS socket. Also we have "Component
Video" marked "Y" "Pb" & "Pr" these
simply go color to color at BOTH ends, this is where the Red, Green, &
Blues, colored Ends, of the Wires, goes, remembering that this is ALL only
Video. With this method, you still must use the AV, red & White, Audio,
Inputs to get the "Sound" into the unit
First you need to know if your PC can output to a TV. Then you need to get the
adapter & cables that connect the PC to the TV. Then you need the correct
TV drivers installed for your video card. When they are all installed, you need
to "Enable" that Monitors, the TV's, Desktop. You need to set either
a "Cloned" display or "Spanned, Extended Desktop". Go to "Display
Settings" Now ensure the TV/Monitor connected has the correct input/output
display settings. Adjust the screens resolution via the resoloution
"Slider", it is best to start with, 800x600 32 bit color. or even
lower. and once working OK, THEN increase to max resolution, your TV can handle,
find out from manual. Once it is all connected up. It should all just work
great. Now, from then on, &, to get it to work every-time, the process is.
Turn everything OFF. Connect the leads between PC & TV, Turn the TV, ON. Then, startup the PC up. It
should "Detect" that it has TWO "Monitors" ie: One Monitor
& One TV/Monitor, & you should see your desktop appear after a bit. Now
you have screen 1 & screens 2. Now, if you are using "Cloned"
mode, then whatever is displayed on the Master monitor, will be displayed on
the TV. If you used Spanned, mode, in this mode, however, you will have
to."Drag" the Video window, over to the TV, and it is though, you
have one "Big Desktop". Now IF using Nvidia or ATI then BOTH of those
have thier OWN, Control Panel, this, all then can make it all a lot easier to
do it. So I would suggest that this method be used. But if you get stuck, or
just want to do it by hand, then the the "By Hand" method is the only
way.There is a great program called MultiMon, this allows great control over
dual displays, and is well worth installing.
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