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is it possible to burn a movie from your PC and then watch it on ur laptop then get a tv-output wire thinggy and view it on your TV as well? while connected to laptop?...
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Possibly.
It could depend on if the 'thingy' is an S-Video or composite (RCA) video cable coming out of the laptop or a VGA converter box.
EDIT: Comments duly noted, tweedle.
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I don't understand this technical stuff.It could depend on if the 'thingy' is a video cable coming out of the laptop"Whenever I need to "get away,'' I just get away in my mind. I go to my imaginary spot, where the beach is perfect and the water is perfect and the weather is perfect. The only bad thing there are the flies. They're terrible!" Jack Handey
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Anything's possible (just about).
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." - Frank Zappa -
Yes you can do it. We have done it before with our laptop hooked up to a projector - we just used a data to data cable from the monitor port. For a TV you might need a data to RCA cable or if you have a separate video out, a S-Video to RCA or RCA to RCA plug.
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Check out ebay theres a guy on there selling pc cards for laptops that has video out to hook to your tv with a multicable that has rca outs and s video they usually go for around 14.99 the cards he sells though only work on win 98/2000 not xp I was going to buy one till I realized
my Ibm thinkpad w/ a pentium 166 82megs of ram doesn't handle divx well and I would end up having to convert my movies anyway which was the reason I wanted to use the laptop was to cut out the conversion process
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Buying a standalone player is probably better and cheaper than buying the 'Thinggys' you may need for connecting a laptop to your TV.
Q. With TV out on any computer , don't you just get Video to your TV ?
You've then got to do something about audio. You wouldn't really want to watch the picture on a tv and get possibly poor sound from your computer.
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If you've got a sound card all you would have to is either cut/splice a male headphone or pc/speaker connector w/ a rca cable or buy what I believe is called a mini connector/rca cable adapter to run it from your line out of the lap top to your audio in either on the tv or dvd/vcr I think the whole point of him wanting to play the movies from his laptop is to save the time of having to convert his movies to something a stand alone dvd player can handle which I don't blame him I'd check around with office max and other places and see if they carry a vga to tv card for your laptop I wish I could do this but like I said divx plays jerky on my laptop. Ne-ways good luck wit ya. P.S. if your laptop doesn't have a line out chances are it has a head phone jack which would prob. work just as well.
"We were in barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold."
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