Use TV as computer Monitor?

Question

I want to use my new TV as a Computer monitor. The TV has those red white and yellow plugs at the back. My computer has an output of that type too. So I plug that output into my TV's input, but I don't know how to get it to work. I try different channels and yadda yadda. I never find the computer input anywhere.
I can also try s-video but I don't see why there would be a difference .

Please help.

Answer 1

Make sure the Yellow output on your PC is really a TV-Out plug and not a digital Audio SPDIF plug.

If it is a TV-Out, connect the TV with your PC. Right click on the desktop and choose settings. Depending on your graphics card you should be able to configure your TV Output.

Now turn on the TV and choose the Channel "AV" (often its also the channel 0 (zero)).

If it still doesn't work, try to get new drivers for your graphics card.

To get Audio, connect the Audio Out (often a green plug) with you TV by using a "Jack-Plug" to "RCA" Stereo adapter cable.

Answer 2

the subject which you will run into is that the alternative on a television isn't virtually as sturdy as that on a working laptop or computing device video reveal. you will get a optimal of a few hundred lines vertical decision and a few hundred pixels of horizontal decision. you will no longer have the flexibility to selection the test value the two. the foremost distinction between television gadgets and computing device video reveal gadgets is that a television sign is analog, no longer digital. It became into by no ability meant to offer the alternative that a favourite computing device demands. Televisions used for use for computing device video reveal gadgets, yet that became into in the day of the early Apple, Commodore and Atari structures. At appropriate, a television, (no count how super the reveal), ought to guard possibly 40 characters of text fabric in the time of, by ability of a few thing like 20 or 30 vertical. once you attempt to cram greater desirable than that on a reveal, the alternative became into in order that damaging which you ought to no longer see the characters. even nevertheless you have a 27 inch television, the alternative is not greater valuable than a smaller one. greater desirable video reveal gadgets, if the alternative is comparable to a small one, run into an identical subject. maximum incredibly super video reveal gadgets have greater desirable decision, making them in a position to reveal lots greater assistance. This demands, additionally, a video card that's able to dealing with that super decision. It takes a swifter video processor and greater video RAM to have the flexibility to do it. in the top, the 27 inch television is positive as a television, yet would be thoroughly valueless as a video reveal. some new flat reveal television's contain a working laptop or computing device enter, and that they might paintings lots greater valuable. you need to use them for the two television and video reveal.

Answer 3

You need to by a VGA to Video (tv/video) card to install in your PC or the wireless type is also available. You can get one at any PC or electronic store near you.