my wife and i have just bought our first house, which means we will be moving out of our tiny apartment. since the apartment is so small, the living room corner doubles as my office, which contains my computer, which contains all my mp3s. since we will have a real house with some extra space, my office, computer, and mp3s will end up in a spare bedroom. there goes all my musical entertainment from the living room. enter my wife's old laptop with a wireless NIC.

here is my question. we have a nice new samsung tv with s-video inputs. from my days of researching a carputer setup, i discovered that there are various video converter boxes available. can i get a box to convert from the laptops VGA to an s-video signal that the tv can display? i have an x-10, and despite all the criticism, i found it quite useful especially since you can map buttons to keystrokes in winamp to accomplish playback control instead of using the mouse. i am thinking it will be alot easier and more ascetically pleasing to view the laptop on the tv as opposed to the laptop screen.

any thoughts besides buy a rio receiver or dell or gateway player? :)

thanks,
jeremy

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