Laptop to tv cable

[calgarys_finest]

What kind of cable do i need i called visions and the girl at the desk was retarded.

[wildrice]

depends on inputs on your tv.
- vga to vga
- dvi to hdmi
- svideo to svideo

[jswankster]

what kind of TV.... most of the time you will need a VGA cable

*EDIT* ^^ beat me to it

[SOAB]

also depends on what output you have in your laptop as well.

mine has an HDMI output so i could do hdmi-hdmi.

[ryanallan]

i just ran into this problem with an older notebook that only has VGA out
one thing i found out during my search was that VGA was never designed to be used with RCA, s-video, DVI, HDMI, or any other TV input
so dont expect much in terms of image clarity

dont buy a VGA - s-video cable as it will not work
this is what i bought
http://www.sundialmicro.com/pc_to_tv_converter_gez1000_1706_166.html

works ok, and gets the job done

[5000Audi]

mine has HDMI and S wideo, so i got 2 choices hehe