[UCIMC-Tech] vga input for Family Room movie viewing?

[Barry Isralewitz]

Hello,

   I'd like to show some public-domain video clips from my laptop at a  
Bike Project movie night we're planning.
   Is there any option to display a VGA signal on a large screen  
(21"+) in the Family Room?

If not, for a one-evening event, is there an appropriate monitor,  
projector, or scan-converter that could be used for the evening?  (I  
forget what kind of TV/monitor is currently in the Family Room)  I  
wouldn't mind that a 640x480 VGA signal was being downgraded to old- 
fashioned television screen with  composite-video quality.

   Reason: I can't get composite or s-video directly from from my  
laptop. The trend in very recent laptops has been to drop ability to  
send composite or s-video output (unless a $125+ scan converter is  
added); VGA becomes the only analog option. In past, a small $5 cable  
or $15 dongle was all that was needed for composite or s-video; no  
longer true in some cases. The latest Macbook Pro, for example, has  
this limitation (unless there's some surprise firmware change in  
future..)


		Cheers,
		
		Barry




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Barry Isralewitz, Ph. D.  Theoretical and Computational Biophysics  
Group, UIUC
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