Posted by The Great Attractor on 05/13/07 21:53

On 13 May 2007 16:07:45 GMT, "Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute"
<nospam@whitehouse.gov> wrote:

>In message news:1179068955.733131.243180@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com,
>sprach forth the following:
>
>> I have connected my new HP laptop to my LCD TV, using component
>> cables, but the image onthe TV comes out in black and white. Anyone
>> know why and how to fix it?
>
>To go from VGA on your laptop to an HDTV, you need FIVE connectors on the
>TV end - RGBHV (Red, Green, Blue, Horizontal, Vertical).
>
>Do your laptop and HDTV both have S-Video connectors? You might want to
>try that first (yes I know that would be lower resolution, but something is
>better than nothing).

Are there VGA to HDMI cables about?

What he should really look at is making sure he got the right cable to
the right location on the HDTV, and NO, there are quite a few HDTVs that
have component inputs that consist of ONLY three connections.

He most likely has two of the cables reversed.

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