[Electroguy]

Evening guys.

Was hoping for a bit of assistance if any AV buffs are up to the challenge.

I am trying to research the possibility of connecting my retro *** laptop to my new sexy TV.

VGA/SVGA is an obvious solution to get the picture but my problem is then sound.

So ideally I would be able to plug in my laptop to the TV and play movie's etc through the flat screen with sound included.

On the laptop:

- VGA female port
- Some sort of fat yellow 1 pin port with the image of a monitor next to it. (no idea what it is)

On the TV:

- 3 HDMI ports
- A slew of scart ports

I'm willing to buy whatever cables I need I just don't want to screw around so if anyone's has a solution that would be awesome.

Apologies if posted in the wrong place.

[bman2k9]

You can't go VGA to hdmi without some sort of converter (but that will cost ya) if your TV has an s-video port on it you can buy an VGA to s-video converter fairly cheap. This won't produce that great of an image but its not too bad. As for your sound get one of the headphone jack to RCA converters that's what I use. If you can't find any of this stuff on the net I will find you some and post the links just let me know. Hope this helps.

[Electroguy]

Very helpful in fact bman!

The headphone RCA is exactly what I was looking for. Fairly obvious now I think back but in yesterdays mindset I was trying to get audio and visual through one cable.

This option makes much more sense.

So if you could just double check my logic:

For picture I could go:

VGA Laptop Output to VGA TV Input (male/male 15pin lead) (assuming my TV has some sort of VGA input)

And for sound:

Headphone output via headphone to RCA lead into TVs LR audio channels?

[bman2k9]

Didn't know you had a vga port on your tv, that setup will work beautifully for ya. Have fun, let me know if I can help any farther.