Tech In 10 Episode 2: PC to TV Movies

hey all, its your resident Techy Dude Kevear here again with an update to the new season in 2009.

First of all, let me apologize for the absence of pics from Tech In 10 Ep 01. One of my producers left his camera at home (LAME. lol) But no worries, that wont happen again.

Now on to the summary of last week's show...........................................

What we did on that episode was to show users how to watch movies from their PC on their TV's
. its pretty easy really, all u would need is a few cables and to make sure that the TV in question has the required connection.

The Cables needed would be:
Svideo Cable:

and an Audio Cable. RCA to be exact

from the PC and TV, an Svideo port

OR if ur tele doesnt have an svideo port, you need this adapter. Its called

S-Video Female to RCA Male

What we did though as i said earlier, was pretty simple. Below are the steps
Step One:
Connect the Svideo cable to the port on your laptop or desktop. This is usually located to the side of a laptop or at the back of the desktop
Step Two:
Connect the Svideo cable to the port on the TV in question. If the Tele doesnt have the port, refer to the picture above of what you need to correct that.
Step Three:
Connect the audio cable to the earphone port on the PC then plug the other ends into the TV
Step Four:
On the laptop, you have to press a certain key combination to enable the external display. See below for directions . Please bear in mind as well, that the key combination mentioned varies from laptop to laptop, please refer to the documents that came with the machine if your having problems:

First, realize that in order to enable the CRT/LCD keystroke you typically need to be holding down an additional key; on my Dell it's a blue "Fn" key. It operates very much like CTRL or SHIFT, in that you hold it down to enable the blue functions that are printed on the key tops. So in my case it's Fn + CRT/LCD to enable the external monitor.

Second, realize that it's not on/off. Pressing the key repeatedly cycles though a series of combinations. For example, each time you press that key, you may cycle through these combinations:

"... give the new combination at least 5 seconds to take before you decide it didn't work. Be patient."

• LCD (laptop screen) only, the CRT (external screen) is off.

• CRT only, the LCD is off.

• LCD and CRT both on, and displaying the same thing on both screens.

• LCD and CRT both on, but displaying different things - together they form a larger virtual desktop where the LCD might be displaying the right side, and the CRT the left.

And Voila, if you did it properly, your machine should be displaying on your TV. See, that wasnt hard , LOL.

The same thing applies when connecting your desktop to the TV as well, however, to enable the Dual Display, that procedure varies from video card to video card. Please consult the documents that came with your PC in order to activate the feature.

This has been another production. Peace out and make sure to subscribe to the blog to get updates.

C ya Next Week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!