How to connect laptop to tv screen?

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binou

what type of cable is required to connect a laptop to a tv screen in order to watch a movie on the large screen? Also, is a cable all you need? Is it possible to connect a hard drive to a screen?
Thanx

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It depends on the laptop and the TV.

Optimally, if it's a modern LCD or LED TV odds are it may already have a VGA input built into it. The older HD-15 connector that your laptop has the output for. If this is the case, then all you need is a VGA Cable and make sure that your laptop is set to display on the large screen. Either this is done via a keyboard function key combo, or through the Windows Display Settings.

Even better is if your laptop has an HDMI out port then you can again run into the HDMI input on the TV.

If you do not have a VGA in on the TV and there is no HDMI out on the laptop, there is still an option.

http://www.amazon.com/Sewell-Direct-SW-23000-PC-Converter/dp/B003BVVYSM/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1344236566&sr=1-3&keywords=vga+rca+converter

This converts the signal from the headphone-out and the VGA out jacks on your laptop and converts it to the RCA inputs that you can hook to your TV.

And no, there is no way to hook a hard drive to a screen without using a computer. There are TV's that can accept a Flash Drive but the Hard Drives (even the USB ones) are not compatible.

What happens if you watch a large resolution video on a smaller screen?

tfw

Also how many pixels does a good LED Tv have on average

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Depending on the TV, it will either downscale the signal to its native resolution or it won't accept it at all.

LED HDTVs are either 720p (typically 1366x768 resolution) or 1080p (1920x1080 resolution). Can't tell you the resolution of yours unless you give us a model number though...

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How does a thin film transistor television screen address each of the picture's pixel points to color it?

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JMF_Inspir

I'm interested in LEDs and Active Matrix TFT (thin-film-transistor) the color resolution/reproduction from devices such as portable video devices when compared with larger ones, like the jumbotrons in football stadiums, signs and venues such as the Fremont Street Experience in Las Vegas, NV.

My direct interest is in applying a combination of the type of addressing methods currently in use on LED signs such as those used in major cities and the methods used in handheld devices. I welcome suggestions and input on which form of addressing the various LED groups would best work in a football-field-sized, "justified motion field" a grid that acts as a large video screen projecting from below the field, (via fiber optics), while built-in sensors underneath interact with Active RFID (Radio Frequency Identification tags, (using something akin to Wi-Fi or Bluetooth Technology), for signal ID verification of movement above the field, tracking movements of ball/players and half-time shows...
amkhali,

I'm sure you think that you know what you're talking about, however, your answer applies to a whole different method of picture production, one which utilizes an electron gun and would apply to Cathode Ray Tube CRT Televisions and not the kind I am inquiring about: portable thin film transistor type of LCD Liquid Crystal Displays in small handheld devices, these use a wire-grid addressing method that specifies a signal to a point on a grid from both sides and top to bottom to tell each pixel at each point of intersection on the grid to light up a specific color, red, blue, green or shades and combinations of the three to form 16,000,000 colors or, all at once to form white and none on at all at that grid point to form a dead cell pixel, many of which, when 'off' make shades and spots of gray to black. There is no electron gun involved, as the only backlighting provided is via 2 or 4 side lights, usually flourescent strip bulbs. I need replies from persons in such fields

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Howstuffworks compares CRT's with LED Jumbo TV screens. Worth a check. Good luck.

What kind of display should I buy for my computer?

Nevin

I got it narrowed down between a 22" 1080P LED-LCD TV for $239.00, or a regular 22" LCD PC monitor for $189.00. What would I be better off with? The TV has the PC input.

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choose plane 22'' LCD PC monitor LED doesn't make difference worth $50. wanna invest more money then try wider screen. \m/
BTW i don't see any point for larger screen if u are not using it for gaming and "extensive" graphic work. Better if u use it
it can be cnkktd to ps3 and xbox tooo....

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