S-Video does not handle sound. On the other hand, we plug the laptop into the TV with S-Video and just turn up the laptop volume.

Thank you!

My little teeny laptop has little teeny speakers, and I have to wear headphone to hear when I am laying right next to it! It makes me laugh.

Our 5 year old Canon G3 camera has died (screen to see what you're taking a picture of is dead; it does take pictures still) and we've been quoted $180 to even open it up and look at it. Anybody want it, or know a place that recycles/refurbishes digital cameras?

For that matter, does does one do with a basic point and shoot 35 mm film camera? We have 2 that work fine and I hate to put them in the trash... ah, the obsolescence of technology.

Laptop-shopping question for y'all: Does this look like a good deal on a decent laptop?

that's a great deal, Kathy. after my trouble with HP, i wouldn't get it. i'm sure others have had perfectly good relationships with customer service and the product itself though.

I've been weeding out brands after hearing various horror stories, so HP is just about the only one left that I hadn't heard anything bad about! (Sony produces horrible laptops that are constantly crapping out, Dells are being returned to the store at a rapid clip, Acers are cheap POS, etc.) What happened with you, tiggy?

short story? my first problem was the laptop "losing" the wireless card. i had to end up shipping the laptop in and they fixed it in record time. that time. the next couple of times i had to send it in because my screen was going completely black for no reason. then again it "lost" the wireless card.

total times shipped back to them for the same problems? 5. how long had i had it? less than a year. i ended up selling it to a co-worker and buying a toshiba, which i LOVE.

i ended up selling it to a co-worker

So your co-worker was driven insane before they had a chance to kill you?

ha! no. you want to hear the crazy thing? she hasn't had a bit of trouble out of it. however, she's not using it as her primary computer. i was.

We have a 37" LG 1080p TV and are pretty happy with it so far. The one knock I have against it is DVD playback with our quite old DVD player which doesn't seem that great to me. Same DVD playback via the computer that we use for essentially all of our viewing is fantastic though. Digital picture slide shows are just awesome on it.

Not sure what is up with the DVD stuff, as other composite input looks great. I suspect a shiny new up scaling DVD player would work dandy, but with the computer there's no reason to get one.

Here is a review of it:

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As a note: While researching, I read about many problems with going from DVI on the computer to HDMI on the TV. So if you want to use it as a big computer monitor, I would look for one with a VGA plug just to be sure.