I've got two laptops here. A Lenovo Y510 (pretty modern) and a Dell Inspiron 1100. I'm connecting to my parents' Mitsu 1080p DLP like so:

vga out --> vga to dvi converter --> dvi in (TV)

This setup works perfectly fine for my desktop, but the TV picture is very dim for both the laptops. Is the VGA out on the laptops only for monitors? Is there some special technicality that makes them work for monitors but not TVs? I CAN use the s-video outputs, but I'm trying not to.

Not as dim as a broken inverter on an LCD but still unusably dim.

1/9/2010 4:43:13 PM

turn your display brightness up

plug in your laptop

1/9/2010 4:46:53 PM