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Laptop TV Out

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I’m just wondering what cable i’ll need so i can watch my laptop on a main tv. I have a dell inspiron 1300 so am not sure which outlets i have.

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Clarifications

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Clarifications

Boy ….

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You have the actual notebook and you want us to find out for you??

Did you even look at your laptop at all before you posted?

If your TV has a VGA in, you can use that as the Inspiron has VGA out.

If your TV does not have VGA in, you will have to find a workaround, as the Inspiron 1300 does not have RCA video or S Video out.

Something like this will work:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=578791&CatId=1428

James

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The tv has a scart socket – not sure if that is a VGA or not – im not too knowledgable with the technical language. The inspiron does have a analg VGA port which is a high density DB-15 apparently. I a curious as to what cable i require.

UNless your TV is VGA compatible

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And many are not, a simple cable is not enough.

I don’t knwo what you mean by scart – is it the S video – with 4 pins and a flat connector in a round connector? Then you would need something like I pointed you to on the tigerdirect site, a box which would convert the VGA to S Video.

James

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