Dear All

Some rather boring but necessary queries regarding the above. I have recently splashed out on a Pioneer Plasma PDP-428XG Kuro 42". I have an ageing Dell laptop and a lot of TV programmes stored on the hard drive.

What is the best way to connect the two? I have already taken care of audio using the 3.5 headphone jack to DIN socket on a Naim amp so I assume I only have to worry about the picture?

Could somebody tell me which cable/ connectors I should use for best quality. Also the cable has to be about 10m long, and I am hoping a cable specialist could manufacture what I need, but I have no idea what connectors are required at both ends.

Thanks for any help.

dave, check if your dell got a dvi-port. then you get the best quality using a dvi-to-hdmi cable.

if not you can use the vga-input on your kuro with a vga cable.

cheap (short ones) ones (for testing) are available i.e. at amazon.

but i think it has to be a high quality cable for 10 m.

michael

Dave a specialist 10 metre lead will cost as much as an appletv which will happily stream wirelessly from your laptop to the tv.

www.apple.com/appletv

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Originally posted by garyi:
Dave a specialist 10 metre lead will cost as much as an appletv which will happily stream wirelessly from your laptop to the tv.

Well, I highly doubt an Apple TV only costs 59 swiss francs, which is the price to pay for a 10 meters VGA adapter

Dave: I believe the best result for the money would be to buy a VGA to Component or Scart cable. Avoid the VGA connector on your Pioneer to stream video content if you can as you'll get horrible result (the video processing will be disabled and the video will stutter horribly).

Thankyou all for the suggestions.

Outcome is, the laptop has no dvi-port. I did however manage to get hold of a vga to vga 10m cable for the princely sum of 9 english pounds.

This does work, but the colour and detailing of the plasma picture is terrible, and there is the odd picture stutter now and then. It is however watchable.

(Ods) - you suggest vga to component or scart. Now even I know what a scart plug looks like, but could you explain what you mean by component? Is this the red/ yellow/ white seperate cables?

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Originally posted by dave brubeck:
(Ods) - you suggest vga to component or scart. Now even I know what a scart plug looks like, but could you explain what you mean by component? Is this the red/ yellow/ white seperate cables?

It's the red/green/blue rca connectors. See a pic here!

Actually, using any video input on your screen will give you better result than using the vga connector, which should only be used to use your plasma as a giant computer screen