connecting laptop to projector for video presentation-hookup issue

[geminidreamer]

My boyfriend is using 2 Toshiba laptops to connect to a switcher which will be connected to projectors in order to show some video for a convention. The Toshiba specs are below (both are the same). The problem is that the laptop does not have an S-cable port, which he is familiar with from a previous convention. It does have the following ports built in:

• Video
  RGB (monitor) output port
  REGZA LINK™ (HDMI-CEC)
  1080p support
• Audio
  S/P DIF output port (shared with headphone port)
  Microphone input port
  Headphone output port
• Data
  i.LINK™ IEEE-1394
  USB v2.0 – 4 ports with sleep and charge12
  3 x USB v2.0
  1 x eSATA/USB combo port
  RJ-45 LAN port
  RJ-11 modem port

Toshiba laptop specs:
Toshiba Qosmio X305-Q701
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor P7350
2.0GHz, 3MB L2 Cache, 1066MHz FSB
PC3-8500 DDR3 1066MHz SDRAM 4G
200G SATA HDD
Nvidia GeForce® 9700M GTS, 512MB GDDR3
windows 7 ultimate 64-bit


How can he connect the projectors to the laptops with the above configuration without the S-cable port? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

[poisondeathray]

The majority of projectors will have VGA (i.e analog monitor) inputs . Check to see if it does , or look at the spec sheet

A projector that has ONLY s-video would be exceedingly rare. I doubt it exists.

Otherwise you can get a converter cable (VGA=>S-video)

[Cornucopia]

Your "RGB Monitor output port" is a VGA port, and is available on 90% of laptops. If the projector has the same type of jack, you might could get a KVM switch (not sure if that's the type of switch you were referring to). You don't say if the Qosmio (?) has HDMI, but if it did, and your projector did too, it might be another (probably better quality)option. The VGA->VGA option would also be much better than S-Video in the chain.

Scott

edit: You didn't say if you wanted the "swticher" to be like a live video switcher/mixer (with overlays, PIP, etc) or just an A/B switch?...

[Cornucopia]

My condolences.