Connecting laptop to TV

CHiLL · 26-04-2009, 15:06

I have been connecting my laptop to my TV for a while now. But I have bought a new TV for my room, it was a cheap Acoustic Solutions 22" TV, with built in Freeview and DVD Player.

My laptop has VGA out and audio out (headphone socket), but the TV only has HDMI in and S/PDIF in. I have no experience in HDMI or S/PDIF. Is it possible to connect my laptop using the VGA socket to the HDMI socket, and get the audio out from the laptop into S/PDIF?

Edit; I meant TV in the title, not PC.

26-04-2009, 16:02

you are wanting to go from analogue output to digital input, so would need an analogue to digital converter

- afaik these are not cheap

- looking at this

http://www.svideo.com/vga2dvi.html

tends to confirm that

- and that is just the video signal

- for the analogue to spdif sound there is e.g.

http://www.gefen.com/gefentv/gtvprod...p?prod_id=5278

- both just examples picked from a gereral search, so there are are probably better, cheaper options, but it does tend to suggest that it is more hassle than it is worth ???

Stuart · 26-04-2009, 17:15

I've corrected the title.

CHiLL · 26-04-2009, 18:21

Thanks for the help and edit.

From the looks of it, it is too long winded and expensive. I thought it was simply going to be a little convertor (similar to DVI - VGA on the back of graphics cards.

26-04-2009, 19:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by CHiLL

Thanks for the help and edit.

From the looks of it, it is too long winded and expensive. I thought it was simply going to be a little convertor (similar to DVI - VGA on the back of graphics cards.

Aye, unfortunately digital to analogue is a lot more common than analogue to digital - shame it is a laptop, as otherwise you could have fitted another graphics card with DVI or HDMI out

Stuart · 26-04-2009, 19:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by CHiLL

Thanks for the help and edit.

From the looks of it, it is too long winded and expensive. I thought it was simply going to be a little convertor (similar to DVI - VGA on the back of graphics cards.

Sadly that is not possible. Those little DVI-VGA adaptors are only possible because DVI (at least in it's -i variant) carries analogue signals as well. HDMI (and DVI-D) are digital only.