Oh, and you'll need to remember to make the VGA output your primary monitor when connected to your TV. Of course, there are many other useful reasons why having a PC connected to your TV is worthwhile. If you're going to be watching DVD videos, you'll get better performance using your set top DVD player than your laptop. However, if all you're going to do is launce a media player to watch movies, setting it to a low res shouldn't be mich of a burden. 800圆00 looks less pretty when scaled, but most details and text are still viewable, and you don't have to scroll left and right to do everything. Acer laptops use the F6 key for example, and the Sony Vaio laptop uses the F7 key. The correct F key to use differs among laptop models. In fact, the best signal you could output to this little box would be 720x480, which would translate very well to a TV screen (it's the native resolution of the monitor), but setting your computer to this res will make screen items like desktop icons and such very large, which makes it less useful for web surfing and other tasks. Press the function (Fn) key on the laptop along with the numbered F key printed with a small screen icon to change the video output to the analogue TV. These little boxes will do a better job of scaling than this example shows, but the general rule is the more scaling, the worse. Wireless HDMI extenders send HDMI data wirelessly between a transmitter and receiver, letting you simply connect your laptop to a nearby small box with a short. The image started at 983x739, and was scaled to fit a width of 360 pixels. This is a high-res snapshot of this forum thread that got scaled when it was uploaded to TechLore. Here's an example of what scaling can do to an image. The more scaling that is required, the worse the image will look. At resolutions like 1024x768, the video details are so fine, things like text won't scale very well. The scaling process from progressive high-resolution PC images to analog video is difficult. Now, your laptop will be outputting signals with a resolution higher than 480i to this box, which will need to be scaled to fit the TV screen. Translated, this is a resolution of 720x480 in an interlaced format. When using an analog connection, like S-Video or composite, your display is limited to resolution of 480i. Stephen, this is where it gets fun! I hope you can follow me through this.

Connecting acer laptop to tv