[wdvltalk] RE: Laptop to Plasma Screen
Jac, As others have mentioned, a plasma screen will have at the minimum an S-video input connector; however, you'll have to get audio from somewhere, too. If your laptop is fairly recent, it very likely may already have an S-video connector on it, so you'll just need a cable. You can grab audio from the sound card output jack. Otherwise, you may need a SVGA video to TV adaptor. We used one of these to drive several large TV monitors for a large conference. They're okay, but not great. One thing I haven't seen anyone else mention is that plasma screens, if they're designed for TV viewing, aren't going to have a great resolution. In other words, if your presentation is over 800x600 in size it's going to be unreadable. We had one system that was barely readable at 640x480. For NTSC video (USA), 440 x 480 is the maximum usable resolution; the brain fills in the rest of the detail, particularly color detail. You might want to read http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/vidres.htm. Some European nations (notably UK and Germany) use PAL format which has a higher resolution but slower frame refresh (50Hz vs. 60Hz). France and a few other countries use SECAM format which is similar to PAL. Whichever one is used where you are, though, is still going to look fuzzy compared to a good PC monitor. Good luck - share your adventure when you get it running! :-) Tim ___ Tim Furry Web Developer Foulston Siefkin LLP w The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub http://www.wdvl.com ___ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[wdvltalk] RE: Laptop to Plasma Screen
jac - WDVL on Thursday, August 14, 2003 11:16 AM said: : Hiya guys, : In a couple of weeks there's gonna be a big launch of a website : I've done. I'll need to be able be able to get what's on my : laptop to show on two large plasma screens. don't have the first : clue how to do this :o) : : Has anyone got any experience with this - how did you get it to : work? : : tia, : : jac. Jac, I'm not sure you've got to do anything too special. I've shown websites via a projector hooked up to a computer on a net connection on a couple of occasions. Are these Plasma TV screens? Do you have to take some special advantage of the two screens, or is it just there to support extra viewers. I'm not sure I really understand, but would be happy to try and help if you explain a bit more. -Stephen http://www.mechavox.com The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub http://www.wdvl.com ___ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[wdvltalk] RE: Laptop to Plasma Screen
Thanks Stephen, yeah I've hooked up the laptop (only the other day) to a projector with no problems. But this time it has to connect to a Plasma TV screen. It only matters that the work is viewable on the plasma screen not the laptop screen. Deb, it's gonna be a flash movie made up of a selection of shots of the website and such... so if I can get the laptop connected to the plasma screen then just open a html file containing the looped flash movie that would be ideal. Erich... thanks I had a look right now I'm hoping I won't have to go down that road :o) any advice would be appreciated. jac. Stephen wrote: Jac, I'm not sure you've got to do anything too special. I've shown websites via a projector hooked up to a computer on a net connection on a couple of occasions. Are these Plasma TV screens? Do you have to take some special advantage of the two screens, or is it just there to support extra viewers. I'm not sure I really understand, but would be happy to try and help if you explain a bit more. -Stephen http://www.mechavox.com The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub http://www.wdvl.com ___ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
