My Video Card is listed as: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670
My laptop is Dell XPS Studio 16 with Windows 7
My TV is RCA, 9 yr old, CRT, the only connection is AVI in and antenna
My DVD is Samsung (also DVD recorder) with all sort of connections in the back
First schema:
* The first cable is from Cables Unlimited * VGA to TV-out S-Video Adapter * with the blue VGA connector attached to the laptop and at the other end has 2 cables: S-Video out and yellow video out.
* Connected the yellow video out to the video-in connector in the back of the TV.
* Change the monitor display to ‘duplicate’ (the menu says: Control Panel – Appearance and Personalization – Display – Connect to a projector)
* Change TV channel to Video (channel 00)
Result: get some sort of signal, but absolutely no use as you can not see anything on the TV screen but a barely visible severely distorted image of the desktop.
Second schema:
* Using the first cable mentioned above
* Connected the S-video out to the Samsung DVR using S-video cable from Belkin
* Change the monitor display to ‘duplicate’
* Change TV channel to Video (channel 00)
Result: worse than the first schema, as nothing displayed on the TV screen, just black static screen
Is there any configuration I’m missing here? How about the laptop monitor resolution? I changed it to 800×600 the using the yellow video out (first schema), but the TV showed rainy violent horizontal lines. The same result occured when I changed the rate from 60MHz to any other numbers.
Please help. Thank you
Footnote:
VGA to TV-out S-video adapter:
S-video cable:
Also bought Y-audio cable from Belkin for the audio:
