Laptop TV-out and sound

[kahea725]

Aloha - I have a laptop and I want to hook it up to my TV so I can record some photo slideshows onto VHS tapes, BUT I need to know how get the sound onto the TV too so the slideshows I tape have the background music when I play 'em back on the VCR. If anyone knows how I can go about doing this on a laptop, please let me know. Mahalo (Thank you)!

Sure thing. Does your TV had A/V inputs? If so, just go to Radio Shack and get an adapter that goes from 1/8" stereo to RCA. Then plug that into the laptop's speaker/headphone out. Plug the other end of the RCA cable into your TV.

Although, thinking, that may not work if the laptop has an S-Video out. Could you tell us what sort of connectors you're dealing with on the laptop and on the TV?

[muno]

Is scart used in the states? If it is, just get a scart cable that has 6rca's at the other end, hook them to the composite tvout of your laptop and line-out (you need a stereo->rca jack for this).
-M

[kahea725]

Mahalos for the help =) I've got TV-out and a S-video on my laptop. As for scart, I haven't heard of it, but maybe it's just called something else here =) But thanks anyways =)

If you've got a normal single RCA coaxial video out, you can probably by one of those three line (made for connecting DVD players to TVs, etc) RCAs, the little adapter I mentioned, and use that with no problems. Of course, you need to hook them to the VCR, not the TV. My brain was taking a walk when I wrote the TV stuff.

[muno]

What do you use to normally connect eg. a dvd player to your tv?
All the connections from external devices are made with scarts here.
-M

[kahea725]

Oops! Correction - I have a TV-out jack on my computer (no S-video, I was looking at the monitor port). Anyways, Mahalo!