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eminton
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Dec 21, 2006, 04:09 PM
 
hey guys and girls. i have a 15 inch Powerbook that i purchased a year ago. i know i can hook it up to the TV with the s-video cable but how do i go about doing that?
     
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Dec 21, 2006, 04:44 PM
 
Just plug the s-video out adapter in the port, attach any cable with the video signal port to it (yellow points) and the other end to the video in to the TV and enter the video/game mode.

Go to System Preferences > Display > Detect Displays and you should see the picture! Choose whatever resolution you like thats available
     
eminton  (op)
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Dec 21, 2006, 09:31 PM
 
thanks, left my cable at a friends house so i will go get that tomorrow. working on just hooking up my powerbook to my 20inch tv and have wireless keyboard and mouse and just sit in a bean-bag and use my computer there
     
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Dec 22, 2006, 12:05 AM
 
its nice and fun to hook it up to tv's. I have the super nintendo emulator and back-up roms of games i already own. i hook my powerbook up my 50 inch plasma via DVI cable, and man, it is purdy

     
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Dec 22, 2006, 12:35 AM
 
Is that you on the TV?
     
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Dec 22, 2006, 12:40 AM
 
Originally Posted by besson3c View Post
Is that you on the TV?
hahaha, i hope you were joking. It is Ryu from the Street Fighter series. I love the super nintendo.

maybe this is more familiar to you?

     
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Dec 22, 2006, 12:58 AM
 
Is that Mario IV (World), or was there ever a Mario 5?
     
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Dec 22, 2006, 04:06 AM
 
That's Super Mario All-Stars. Not sure which one in the collection it is.

Steve
     
eminton  (op)
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Dec 22, 2006, 07:44 AM
 
haha thats what i want to do and also play WoW on my tv. and its not a 50inch TV but 20 is a good enough size and fits on my crappy TV stand that will hold it.

BTW.......can i have your TV?
     
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Dec 22, 2006, 03:26 PM
 
Originally Posted by eminton View Post
haha thats what i want to do and also play WoW on my tv. and its not a 50inch TV but 20 is a good enough size and fits on my crappy TV stand that will hold it.

BTW.......can i have your TV?
sure, just paypal me $2500 and ill ship it right away
     
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Dec 22, 2006, 05:55 PM
 
Originally Posted by cbrfanatic View Post
sure, just paypal me $2500 and ill ship it right away

deal...do you take...personal checks
     
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Dec 23, 2006, 11:58 AM
 
ok so i got my cable for my computer and got the yellow rca and got it on the tv, but it seems so small on the TV...what can i do to make it clearer on the TV that it seems its just a bigger LCD screen? any suggestions?
     
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Dec 23, 2006, 12:06 PM
 
Originally Posted by eminton View Post
ok so i got my cable for my computer and got the yellow rca and got it on the tv, but it seems so small on the TV...what can i do to make it clearer on the TV that it seems its just a bigger LCD screen? any suggestions?
Try changing the resolution in the display settings but thats all the clear that your going to get on LCD TV. Quality for text especially sucks. FrontRow works great though!
     
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Dec 23, 2006, 12:11 PM
 
so is hooking up just a bad idea? i want to play WoW and other games on the tv and use a wireless keyboard and mouse and use the audio from the TV or my 5.1 speakers
     
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Dec 23, 2006, 01:06 PM
 
Yeah that shouldn't be that bad I think. I have never hooked up my Powerbook to the TV to play games so I wouldn't really know

Try playing with the WoW display settings and keep the one that suits you best.. If the game is very text oriented with attention to a lot of detail then a TV isn't going to do it much justice although the you should be able to sound all right as long as you have the red rca's plugged in
     
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Dec 23, 2006, 04:27 PM
 
ok well then ill just play WoW on my 15-inch screen
     
   
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