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]
