I confess I haven't looked at the various jacks on my TV, but would a standard network cable be sufficient to plug my laptop into the TV to watch things from the laptop? Would that be different if I was trying to run the Internet to the TV?
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Connie Neil - Sep 15, 2014 12:04:58 pm PDT #24109 of 25496
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Gris - Sep 15, 2014 12:30:44 pm PDT #24110 of 25496
Hey. New board.
Network cables generally don't carry audio and video. You would need a cord specifically designed to carry video. If it's a fairly modern laptop it probably has an HDMI or Mini Display port output; running from that to your TV simply requires the right cord. What's the make and model of your laptop and TV?
Connie Neil - Sep 15, 2014 12:41:40 pm PDT #24111 of 25496
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TV's a Visio, a few years old, laptop's a Dell. I'll see if I have an HDMI cable anywhere about. It's been hooked up to the TV before, I just have to remember how.
Gris - Sep 15, 2014 1:48:13 pm PDT #24112 of 25496
Hey. New board.
If your laptop can't do HDMI it is possible that your laptop and TV both use have VGA ports: my older TV has one. That's the same port yiu would use to hook up to an older projector or monitor.
Sue - Sep 16, 2014 9:43:46 am PDT #24113 of 25496
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Maria - Sep 17, 2014 9:54:29 am PDT #24114 of 25496
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Yeah, I fell for it. 13" with 128 gigs. So very pretty and shiny. I pick it up this afternoon. It was down to $863 from sticker. I couldn't say no.
Tom Scola - Sep 17, 2014 4:55:20 pm PDT #24115 of 25496
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Again, a reminder: If you upgrade via iTunes, you don't need to have free space on your iDevice.
-t - Sep 17, 2014 5:01:42 pm PDT #24116 of 25496
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Thank you. That is a big update.
sarameg - Sep 18, 2014 6:13:44 pm PDT #24117 of 25496
Is that true if your ipad never hooks up with your laptop? For all that I'm computer literate, I'm stubbornly NOT when it comes to admin...
meara - Sep 21, 2014 9:00:03 pm PDT #24118 of 25496
Aargh. I seem to have completely fucked up my Internet somehow. It was being funky and the last time he was here the cable guy suggested I get a new wireless router. Guess mine was getting old. So I figured maybe now was the time. Hied mysel to target and got one. Got home, started to set it up. Seemed fine. Hooked it all up. Stuck my USB time-machine backup drive to it, tried to make that work. And then it all went to hell and now I can't even get it to give me Internet. Ugh!!