Comments on: Laptops Are Not Loud Enough

lobo235

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:34:05 GMT

thebritishasian,

I would suggest taking a look at the manual for your HDTV to see if you need to hook the red & white audio connectors to another place. Usually it will tell you what audio ports go with the VGA connection on the TV. I know on my Vizio HDTV it actually has a mini-headphone jack that it uses for the PC sound that goes with the VGA port. Your TV may have something like this.

Also, many good receivers will allow you to assign audio ports to video ports so you can choose how you want them to be paired yourself. In my current setup this is how it works. I run all my audio and video to the receiver where I setup which audio goes with which video ports and then just run one video connection to the HDTV and the sound goes through my surround sound speakers hooked up to the receiver.

If neither of the above solutions work then you can look at buying a VGA to Component Cable or Converter. If you have the video hooked up through component inputs you are guaranteed to have some audio ports to go along with them.

Hope this helps,
lobo235

thebritishasian

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:44:09 GMT

I've got my hdtv connected using a vga cable and this picture is perfect, then i also have a rca cable plugged into the headphone jack of my laptop and into the red and white inputs on the tv.

however i have a problem which i can't figure out :S on the tv's pc channel i get the picture, but no sound, and on another channel i get the sound but no picture! :S

does anyone know how this can be fixed or give me some help and advice please!?

thanks.

chrish

Mon, 12 May 2008 00:45:58 GMT

I discovered this a while back and it is a great way to boost volume in the media players.

...But what if I am streaming a video or music through my browser?

I am curious if there is some program that I can use that will allow me to use a graphic equalizer on the system volume, not just the media player volume on my laptop.

David90212

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:51:55 GMT

I have been trying to deal with this for a long long time ... now in under 10 seconds I am totally happy! Thank you!!

lobo235

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:56:54 GMT

That's a great tip. We haven't had a chance to try Vista yet so we are glad you found a way to do it there.

Abel

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:52:39 GMT

one way to boost volume in vista is to go to sound properties (in control panel)-> playback tab -> choose audio device -> properties -> enhancements -> enable "loudness equalization" and apply, makes a huge difference in loudness

Cole

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 22:14:57 GMT

Great help, thanks!!

Chris

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:43:20 GMT

Thanks very much for the tip! Been racking my brain about this!