What's the best way to hook up an overhead projector to a laptop?

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Best way to hook laptop up to TV (CRT/Rear Projector)?

Im using a macbook pro and i am looking for a cheap solution to hooking my laptop up to a tv (dont care about quality honestly). A few notes though the tv's are older, they will only have RCA hook up , so VGA on a tv is not an option. I did see that they sell VGA/RCA chords so i could go from my laptop to tv using that but not sure if it would work as most are for HDTV's . Once again my tv's are older not HD, just the old school 45" rear projection tv's from the 90's with a crap load of RCA...

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VGA to RCA (composite) should be OK for Standard Definition TV inputs. I saw a 6 foot cable at Buy.com...

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Whats the best way to hook a laptop to a large screen TV?

Whats the best way to hook a laptop to a large screen tv? I have standard VGA output port, and want to give highest resolution possible. From what I am reading its hard and expensive to go HDMI? How can I get VGA into the TV?

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You need a TV that has a VGA port as my Toshiba 37" does.

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Is there a way to hook up a camcorder to a laptop so that i can view whats recording on my laptop?

im having a babyshower saturday and my mom lives in california but i want her to be able to see the babyshower from her computer, is there a way i can log into a camcorder that is connected to a laptop so that she can view the babyshower... i guess it...

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Yes you can. You just need WebCam and you can use Skype,Yahoo,MSN... to broadcast

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Whats the best way to hook up my laptop to my home stereo?

Is there a type of wireless device that helps with this? I have my laptop hooked up to my home thearter now but i have too many wires around and it isnt easy to hookup.

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I have used this wireless FM transmitter from iRock. It will plug into your headphone/speaker jack on...

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I bought a aaxa micro projector standard version a little over a year ago brand new on eBay.?

I bought your aaxa micro projector standard version a little over a year ago brand new on eBay. I have only watched about 6 movie on it through this time on an sd card, but recently i lent it to my cousin and he used the rca cables to hook the projector...

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To be honest, this would require more technical expertise than we here at YA would be able to answer...

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We'll get somebody in our tech department on that right away. :)

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Whats the optimal (minimum) I need to setup my home theater?

I am buying a projector that I am going to ceiling mount. The projector will have the standard inputs (including rca/component inputs, plus hdmi and vga inputs). I want to be able to 1. Watch tv using my projector 2. watch dvd's using my projector. ...

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A few additional comments to the other response... 1. You will probably have a pretty difficult time...

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Best way to hook up audio from PS3/computer?

I'm looking at getting a PS3, Optoma HD20 projector, an HDMI receiver and 5.1 speaker set up, etc. Now when I hook up the ps3 to the projector via HDMI, I would use the audio cables from the back of PS3 and hook that directly up to the receiver, I know...

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it should do. Anyway you rock ps3's are awesome :D

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Help! I'm an idiot! I can't connect my laptop to my projector!?

Yesterday I hooked my laptop (samsung nc10) up to my projector with a vga cable and it worked just fine. I got sound with a pair of computer speakers because I wasn't bothered trying to find a way to hook it all up to the surround sound.. Now, today...

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Try following the steps in the source. I'm sure it'll work out just fine. :)

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Cheap, decent movie projector?

Cheap projector question for probably the millionth time on the green: Can somebody recommend a sub-$450 projector for watching movies at home? Having recently received a very generous wedding gift from the estate of a relative who I've never met, my...

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I bought the Vivitek D825MS 2600 Lumen SVGA DLP Projector from Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/gp...

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