Dell 1505 and my TV

Hi, I just ordered my 1505 and am expecting it soon, but in the meantime I wanted to get the stuff required to connect it to my TV and use that as my monitor together. I visted 4 computer and electronics stores, and assisted by at least 10 peopl ethat had no clue what they were talking about, and I'm tired of wasting gas/time on this. I checked and my TV doesnt have a VGA input, so that option is sadly out. The S-video on the laptop has 7 prongs, but all the cords I could find are 4 prong(including the tv)

Where could I get a possible 7-prong to 4-prong adapter, or is there any other option I have to connect it? Thank for the help.

 

I had the same problem finding the right cable. In the end I sent Dell an email asking where I could get a proper s-video cable and they sent me back an email saying I could buy one from them for AU$5.50, including postage! So this cable lets me connect my 6400 to my TV with a normal RCA cable, so I'm really happy.

Just send them an email, I've heard that if you try calling they will tell you they don't sell the cable on it's own, but obviously that's not true

 

What're the inputs at the back of your TV? Does it have DVI? HDMI? S-video?
HDMI, DVI are the best for both picture quality, i.e. movies, games, and text quality is excellent, then comes VGA, last is S-video, the text quality is terrible, but if you're just going to use the TV's screen for movies, games, then it's OK.
Edit: Check newegg.com, they have em all, no need to waste gas anymore.

 

Does the sound go through or is it still based off the comp. Or does S-Video use sound at all. Thanks though.

 

Cool, thanks.

 

Any s-video cable will work to carry video out. This confused me in the beginning as well

I think, the other prongs in the middle are for video in.

 

So how would you get sound on the TV if you do not have HDMI?

 

you would need a cable with a mini headphone jack connecter on one end, and rca's on the other, stick it in the headphone jack of the laptop, then the rca's into the tv or reciever, the cable is 6 or 7 bucks at radio shack, thats also an easy way to run your laptop or mp3 player directly through a car stereo if you have aux rca ins

all in all you would be better suited by getting a decent pair of computer speakers to use with the tv, they would sound much better than the tv speakers, unless your going to run it through a reciever

 

Dell america has a special adapter from 7-pin Svideo to RCA video and Audio out. You can search this in Dell Inc Forums. they have pictures and links there. Sorry i forgot the site where they sell this special cable.

 

Any luck finding a link to this cable? I searched Dell and could not find one that goes from SVideo to RCA+Audio. I used to have such a cable on an old Dell Insprion 8000. Is this the correct cable:

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=310-8272

I did find this cable on another (non dell) site:
http://www.svideo.com/7pinwspdif.html

Will either of these work on an e1505 and produce RCA + SPDIF?