What a Cable

After my foray into streaming content to my HDTV, I was hooked, and wanted more. Not just in quality but in quantity as well. Clearly I needed a new cable.

After going through Amazon, I settled on one. It had a VGA connection on both ends, as well as a mini-RCA for the audio. It is 15 feet long, and was under $13 with the shipping figured in. These places often make the wire cheap and then overprice the shipping, so I just calculate the TCO = total cost of ownership, and this was still a good deal.

I hooked up the cable. Turns out that on the back of my HDTV, there is a dedicated audio out jack that goes with the VGA that I hadn't even noticed until I really got behind the TV set in the daylight hours.

While I had gotten this to work on Vista with no prob, with the Windows 7 upgrade, it was anything but simple. I had to seriously play around with the dual display settings, and also redo the resolution to something that my 720p HDTV didn't choke on. However, when it was done, I had high quality video, and full audio, and it was well worth the effort. For anyone who doesn't have a notebook with an HDMI out, a cable like I linked to below can get the job done.

Jonas