TV Connection

[Guest]

I am connectiong Amilo laptop to Sony widescreen tv using s-video. I have a
good resolution colour image on the tv of the wallpaper, but when I click on
anything using the laptop screen (i.e. open internet explorer), the tv image
stays unchanged on wallpaper, even though the laptop screen displays my home
internet page?

I cannot see any icons on the tv image. I have tried changing the colour &
resolution settings in display, but still cannot see the whole image on the
tv, even though the image is good & clear in colour.

Laptop running XP, 4 months from new.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Just a thought, but check the advanced display settings to see that the TV
is mirroring the laptop, and not just an extension of it.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Guest]

Rick, Thanks, but I have worked it out via:

right click desktop - NVIDEO display - TV

That opens the GForce Go 6800 property boxes

On left box click nview display settings

On right box change nview display drop-down from dual to single display

On current display drop-down select TV

Apply

OK

That has opened a proper full screen full view onto the widescreen TV.

Videos & games look very good, but wallpaper, e-mail & internet
applications, particularly text are not too sharp.

Also, cannot find the fix to get sound to TV - only off the laptop.

Any further ideas?

Thanks

Sevensprint.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Yep, TV's never show text/fonts very well. As to sound, I would imagine
you'd need to see if your card supports transfering audio out.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[kurttrail]

Rick, Thanks, but I have worked it out via:

right click desktop - NVIDEO display - TV

That opens the GForce Go 6800 property boxes

On left box click nview display settings

On right box change nview display drop-down from dual to single
display

On current display drop-down select TV

Apply

OK

That has opened a proper full screen full view onto the widescreen TV.

Videos & games look very good, but wallpaper, e-mail & internet
applications, particularly text are not too sharp.

Also, cannot find the fix to get sound to TV - only off the laptop.

Any further ideas?

Thanks

Sevensprint.

Svideo looks almost as bad as composite, on a modern hdtv. For hdtv
quality you'll need to out put video via VGA, YCbCr, YPbPr, or better
yet DVI connections.

As for sound, do you have a wire going from your laptop's sound out put
to the sound imput of your TV? S-Video doesn't do sound.

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Kurt Kirsch
Self-anointed Moderator
http://microscum.com
"It'll soon shake your Windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."

 

[PopS]

For a GEForce 5200:
NOrmally, with NVIDIA graphics, you set it to CLONE mode and then
set that to TV PAL or NTSC as appropriate. That's the video.
Then you have to run the Audio from your sound card to the
input on the TV. The TV card only puts out video.

HTH,
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[Guest]

Thanks - got it sussed now.
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SS7

For a GEForce 5200:
NOrmally, with NVIDIA graphics, you set it to CLONE mode and then
set that to TV PAL or NTSC as appropriate. That's the video.
Then you have to run the Audio from your sound card to the
input on the TV. The TV card only puts out video.

HTH,
Pop



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