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PAL DVDs through laptop VGA on NTSC TV
kathos
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A friend of mine has a dilemma, hoping someone can help him out.
So an old friend of mine went to Australia a long time ago, his original trip was for a few months but he liked it so much over there that it lasted four years. So in that time he's collected a lot of DVDs (read: close to a 400) and he just couldn't just let it go.
Here's the following, he has:
- 400 Aussie DVDs (PAL region?)
- 1 Aussie laptop (not that it matters)
- 1 giant TV he just had to get because he only had 18 glorious inches back in Australia
We got him some cables to connect his laptop to his TV (we used VGA cables because his TV supported it). Whenever he plays anything on his screen (like his DVDs) he gets a green box saying "this resolution not supported in this region" or something like that. But it shows up fine on the screen.
Also; he's not buying another region free DVD player, he's bought three since he's got back and they're usually really cheaply made ones from Best Buy or whatever, seems no one's selling a decent one with no hardware failure rate.
Is there anything he can do to get the DVDs to work?
So an old friend of mine went to Australia a long time ago, his original trip was for a few months but he liked it so much over there that it lasted four years. So in that time he's collected a lot of DVDs (read: close to a 400) and he just couldn't just let it go.
Here's the following, he has:
- 400 Aussie DVDs (PAL region?)
- 1 Aussie laptop (not that it matters)
- 1 giant TV he just had to get because he only had 18 glorious inches back in Australia
We got him some cables to connect his laptop to his TV (we used VGA cables because his TV supported it). Whenever he plays anything on his screen (like his DVDs) he gets a green box saying "this resolution not supported in this region" or something like that. But it shows up fine on the screen.
Also; he's not buying another region free DVD player, he's bought three since he's got back and they're usually really cheaply made ones from Best Buy or whatever, seems no one's selling a decent one with no hardware failure rate.
Is there anything he can do to get the DVDs to work?
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I can almost guarantee that the error message you're seeing when connecting to the TV is due to selecting a resolution that the TV does not support... read the manual, and see what resolutions are supported by the TV through the D-sub input... (that's what you meant by VGA, right?)