With the advent of broadband networks large sized files like videos are volitant all over the Internet. Most of the movies/videos are available in compressed formats hosted by servers/hosts. The DVD players that are available on the market do not cater to all compressed formats. Even if they do, they are expensive and cannot play directly from the Internet. Nowadays people watch digital movies on their computers with software players.
A friend of mine has a Sanyo flat screen television and recently got a Compaq notebook as a gift from her sister. The notebook has S-Video output and the telly has S-Video input. Bingo! We got ourselves a media player that can be projected on to the big screen. We spent five bucks and got ourselves a four-pin S-Video cable. Now, Rajani can watch any video in any compressed format. The quality of the picture is as good as it is available on the laptop. In other words there is no degradation in the signal from laptop to the television.
My TV is an old model and does not have any S-video input. So, I have to buy the S-Video-RCA cable from Radioshack to connect my laptop in a similar manner.
2 comments:
Is it does not have an S-video port??
Oh yes! Thanks for pointing it out.
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