Tech Question

[Jeddius]

Hey gang, I'm trying to get WoW to display on my plasma television. I bought an Svideo cable, and hooked it up. For some reason the image was not transferring over from my laptop to the television. My brother-in-law was over and he tried his laptop and it worked. Is there something I need to setup or a setting in my computer to make it work? The cord obviously didn't come with any hardware, I'm lost. Thanks in advance for the help!

[Starbuck_Jones]

If you have a TV out on your system via S-video cable. Attach it all up. Turn the tv on and to the S-video channel and then reboot your computer. Most of those TV outs are not hot attachable, but are detected on post/boot. If it still does not work, look in your display settings and you should see the TV as a second monitor and all you have to do is enable it.

My HD projector is like that via an HDMI cable, if I reboot the box etc with the projector off, the system wont detect it when I turn it on. Has to be on when the system is booted.

[Jeddius]

Starbuck,

Thanks for the info. I figured it out...now willl this do any damage to my television? I have a Panasonic Plasma.

[Starbuck_Jones]

No, but like any flatscreen tech, not positive on plasma but lcd tv's and projectors etc will get image burn if you leave the same content on for LONG periods of time. Like days and weeks of the same thing.

[daviddoran]

I wouldn't use an S video connection to hook a computer to a plasma. *shudder* Does the TV have a VGA connector? You will get a much better connection that way. Better yet, DVI all the way. I guess if the plasma isn't an HD plasma you'd be fine, but still, the resolution on s video is very low compared to vga/dvi/hdmi

[mxracer050]

I would be careful with Plasma TV's and gaming.. from what I understand those are hard to play games on as they burn the image in the screen. LCD's have a lesser problem with this, but the case is still there.

[Taliesin]

I would be careful with Plasma TV's and gaming.. from what I understand those are hard to play games on as they burn the image in the screen. LCD's have a lesser problem with this, but the case is still there.

I can attest to this. Someone at work in a conference room left a plasma on all weekend with the Windows login screen up. The login image was permanently burned into the screen and the plasma TV needed to be replaced. Newer plasmas can last longer before this happens, but it still happens.

Only stationary images are at risk of causing the burn-in effect, like minimap, buttons, group icons, etc. I'd avoid playing too much on it, but should be okay for occasional use.

[TheBigBB]

Plasma TVs also get a lot of lag compared to a monitor.

[Bollwerk]

s-video is going to be limited to 480 lines, interlaced, if I remember correctly. I strongly suggest using VGA/DVI/HDMI, or even component video.