Posted by: wfaulk
TV out dongle - 03/10/2004 16:02
I have a laptop that does not have a built-in TV output. Does anyone know of a USB, FireWire, or even PCMCIA dongle to provide TV output so that I can play video files onto a TV? I'd have thought that this would be easy to find, but apparently not.
Posted by: wfaulk
Re: TV out dongle - 03/10/2004 17:18
I suppose VGA to TV would work, but I was thinking that there would be something that would do native NTSC.
Posted by: tfabris
Re: TV out dongle - 03/10/2004 18:14
Right, that's called a video card with native TV-out.
But you're talking about a laptop. And they don't make PCMCIA video cards, not enough bandwidth on the PCMCIA slot.
Dunno about how firewire would work, I suppose that feature would exist on some video-editing-station thingamajigs, you know like the "snap" thingys... Perhaps that's the tree you should be barking up.
Posted by: wfaulk
Re: TV out dongle - 03/10/2004 20:01
This looks about like what I want. Even includes audio out, which is super.
Posted by: g_attrill
Re: TV out dongle - 05/10/2004 06:48
Otherwise
this kind of thing can be had on ebay for very little money.
Gareth
Posted by: wfaulk
Re: TV out dongle - 05/10/2004 13:01
Nope. I just want to be able to play video files on the TV. My only concern is whether it'll be able to play random codecs over that link or if they'll need to be in their own format. I'll find that out before I commit.