Help Laptop DVD to TV

[the3styler]

Hey people, i have a slight problem. I currently have a DVD player on my laptop, which i want to hookup to my tv, so that i can watch the DVDs on my TV. The laptop has a video out (yellow) socket, but the tv is slightly older and therefore it does not have the input or a scart. I think the only way to put it through would be through the arial. So i would need some type of converter. Any ideas, any help would be a great help.
Cheers
The3styler

[Nelson37]

RF modulator, converts to Coax. $30.00

[mp3superfreak]

RF modulator, converts to Coax. $30.00

My Fujitsu would not work w/ RF Modulator. I must either use VCR, TV, or receivers RCA jacks. Not sure why, but it's like the laptop doesn't recognize the RF Modulator as a monitor. (I realize all a VCR does is just modulate the RCA to coax.) BTW, Sam's club has a Hifi Toshiba VCR for $60, which would work. Good luck.

[Nelson37]

Many TV-outs have to have the TV connected and turned on at boot-up or they don't work.

Yeah, the VCR would be the more cost-effective and does the same thing.

[RevSchafer]

Is the TV out from a laptop playing DVDs not Macrovision encoded, and if so, can you still play it through a VCR?

[tearex]

All this might work but picture and sound quality will be plainly crap, worse than VCR.

[musher70]

i always thought you couldnt run a dvd from computer
because of the theft issue...i only use laptop to run divx
output to vcr, im too lazy to run to tv...

[Nelson37]

Playback is not the issue, only recording, as far as Macrovision.

Quality can vary from total crap to better than some DVD players. Depends totally on your hardware.