tv to laptop

[admin_exported]

What sort of cable should i use to give me the best image to connect my laptop to my tv? thx

 

[John Duncan]

Depends on whether your TV is HD (and therefore accepts HDMI), and whether your laptop has an HDMI or DVI out.

What are they both?

 

[John Duncan]

(I'm presuming you mean pictures from your laptop on your TV screen, as opposed to the other way round as your title might suggest?)

 

[Anonymous]

Ive got a panasonic 37lzd70 and it needs to be 4 to 5 metres long if that makes any difference.

 

[Anonymous]

yeah its for images and play games if thats possible

 

[Anonymous]

its got the 15 pin connection

 

[Anonymous]

Im not very good with this sort of stuff, the laptop is a sony pcg-7d1m if that helps.

 

[John Duncan]

One of these:

then as opposed to this:

or this:

I see the Panasonic has a PC input so you just need a VGA cable, available for a fiver from ebuyer. Don't think you'll find one that is any better quality than generic though.

If you want to improve video performance, you could try a USB to DVI card that makes it HDMI compatible, but they're expensive and won't give you that much of an improvement, I'd say. You may find though that the vaio won't output native 1080, so it'll be upscaled - give it a go with the VGA cable first and see if you're happy with it.

 

[Anonymous]

thanks for all that, very helpful. Think ill just try the vga cable first.