If you have a spare computer laying around, you can connect that computer to the television, and then use either Windows XP's Remote Desktop feature, or download the free edition of RealVNC (http://www.realvnc.com/) onto both computers to show your laptop screen on that spare computer, and therefore to the TV. You can even set it to full-screen on the spare computer so it's pretty seamless. Obviously you'll need a wireless network between the two computers.
There will be a delay of several seconds in certain cases, especially if you try to play a video or a game. But for internet browsing, documents, presentations, etc, it's quite effective.
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by: herald_thomasPosted on 2008-04-13 at 05:06:42ID: 21344447
Ensure that you have a wireless card installed on your laptop. Also, please check the BIOS when it boots, you might want to take a look at the option within the BIOS to make sure there's not a specific setting you can change that might facilitate the external monitor. Sometimes the BIOS will have multiple options for the video:
1. Internal monitor only.
2. Internal + External
3. External only.
The BIOS can normally be accessed by pressing one of these keys during startup: F1, F2, F10, DEL.