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cas786
06-13-09, 06:54 PM
I am in the process of buying a lead and its on its way via ebay. But the purpose of this question is i have a sony vaio ns10l/s recently upgraded to t7500 but what i wanted to know is my laptop only has a vga output but my tv doesn't it only has a hdmi input. I was looking on ebay and you can get a lead with vga on one side male and hdmi male on the other.would it then be posssible to use my 50inch plasma as a monitor if not what other way could i do it as my laptop only has vga and tv doesn't only hdmi. There is a button the f7 which i have to press with the function it has a lcd sign on it would it be this button that i would have to push in order to use a second screen:confused:
jediman
06-13-09, 06:55 PM
no

correction . . . it seems there is a way . . . but i would guess that its not worth doing.
ojibewa
06-13-09, 07:04 PM
http://ak.buy.com/db_assets/prod_lrg_images/752/209868752.jpg

AITech VGA-to-HDMI Format Converter

http://www.buy.com/prod/aitech-vga-to-hdmi-format-converter-1-x-hd-15-video-in-1-x-stereo/q/loc/111/209868752.html

they also make them with rca to hdmi
Old Thrashbarg
06-13-09, 07:04 PM
I was looking on ebay and you can get a lead with vga on one side male and hdmi male on the other.

That's some sort of specialized cable, it won't work with any standard hardware. VGA is analog, DVI/HDMI is digital... to adapt it, you'd need an active ADC box like ojibewa linked. And that's one of the cheaper ones, just so you know.
MadMan007
06-13-09, 08:09 PM
I think you should be able to get a VGA to component (YPbPr) cable. What other inputs does your TV have?
cas786
06-14-09, 01:25 PM
every thing apart from in vga and dvi
hajalie24
06-14-09, 06:24 PM
I'm not sure if this will work.
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10235&cs_id=1023503&p_id=2170&seq=1&format=4#feedback
Quailane
06-14-09, 06:57 PM
You don't want to connect your VGA output to your 50" plasma. It will look so crappy you will want to throw a brick at it.
ratbuddy
06-14-09, 07:10 PM
You don't want to connect your VGA output to your 50" plasma. It will look so crappy you will want to throw a brick at it.

Nah. I run a 25' VGA cable to the VGA input on my TV at 1920x1080 and it looks great. Can't tell it apart from HDMI even.
MadMan007
06-15-09, 04:55 PM
You don't want to connect your VGA output to your 50" plasma. It will look so crappy you will want to throw a brick at it.

A bad VGA output, like maybe those ribbon-cable extended ones although I've used one and it's ok, and a very bad cable yeah. A decent output and a decent cable it won't matter much.
neonblingbling
06-25-09, 08:02 PM
every thing apart from in vga and dvi

DVI -> HDMI adapters are much more common.

If DVI is an option for you. Else, ignore me.
cas786
06-26-09, 01:40 PM
What do u mean? the only output on my vaio is vga.I was thinking of getting a vga to dvi adapter and then getting a lead which is dvi to hdmi will this then work. Please get back to me thanks.
Jon
06-26-09, 01:50 PM
What do u mean? the only output on my vaio is vga.I was thinking of getting a vga to dvi adapter and then getting a lead which is dvi to hdmi will this then work. Please get back to me thanks.

You can't do this. VGA is analog and, unless your TV has a DVI-I interface for accepting both analog and digital, you'll need a converter box.

In any case, going VGA to HDMI is going to require and converter box.
neonblingbling
06-26-09, 07:03 PM
What do u mean? the only output on my vaio is vga.I was thinking of getting a vga to dvi adapter and then getting a lead which is dvi to hdmi will this then work. Please get back to me thanks.

Sorry, I thought you mentioned that your TV does not have a VGA or DVI port, meaning that your computer did.

But since you have just a VGA port, I cannot add anything else.
MongGrel
06-27-09, 01:08 AM
I use DVI-D to HDMI on my spectre 32 inch 1080P and cloned to my Olevia 747i 1080P, I'd doubt there would be a VGA that would work right to HDMI and work well.

I've been proven wrong before I guess, but seems would be a stretch to me. And really get it to work accurately. Seems there would be some distortion in there I'd think.

:beer:
Old Thrashbarg
06-27-09, 12:39 PM
I think you should be able to get a VGA to component (YPbPr) cable.

Normal equipment doesn't work that way. YPbPr is a completely different standard from RGB VGA. Component cables use red, green and blue color codes on the connectors, but they don't send an RGB signal as such.

The reason such cables exist is that some equipment (projectors, mostly) supports YPbPr signals through a VGA connector... it will not work with a standard VGA output.