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If you have the proper plugs and cables...maybe
the following article will get you started:
How to use a PC DVD player
and watch movies on TVhttp://tinyurl.com/368v26
If possible, get the information concerning your specific graphics/
video card. When they provide a s-video output, they do differ in how
you set this up. My nvida card has one monitor output for the computer
monitor and a s-video output for TV. Normally you might expect to
connect the s-video output of the card to the s-video input of the TV
and then see the picture. But this is not always the case. My card has
auto detection to see if a TV is connected. Unfortunately this does
not always work on some TVs or if you go through another device such
as a recorder on the way to the TV. In that case you have to go
through several sub-menus for the graphics card that are hard to find
to set up. And you have to be very careful. Either the main computer
monitor or the TV can be made primary. If you make the TV primary by
accident, you may have no display on the computer monitor! Also there
are 3 ways to display using a TV in addition to computer monitor. In
the clone mode, both show the same thing. In an extended mode the TV
can extend the main monitor to the right, so in effect you have a very
wide screen. Then there is a special video mode that I use. It
normally just shows the desktop on the TV. However when you view a
page with a video or a movie, the view on the computer monitor is
normal, and the video or movie comes up full screen on the TV. Thus,
if at first you do not get any picture or not what you want on the TV,
you do need to consult detailed instructions for your card. My card
has had several driver updates. At every one the TV is not detected
afterwards. And the menus and procedures have changed so much that you
waste a lot of time finding out what to do again. After all of this,
graphics cards are at the top of my list of computer hardware devices
that I hate.
