RE: Using a big Screen as a monitor

[olly]

sounds like you just need to extend your desktop on to this second screen. Go into to display properties from control panel and on the settings tab make sure the "extend my desktop on to this screen" is ticked for the secondary screen

[olly]

Yes you should be able to see two screens. side by side. Normally the left screen (Primary) is bigger and would represent your main laptop flat panal screen. To the right of this would be a secondary smaller screen which would represent the tv output. If y
ou cannot see this then it looks like you will need to change some advanced display settings or download the correct graphics card driver. The problem here is that the advanced settings for different manufacturers is generally different. I have had expreie
nce with ATI and Nvidia settings and these are fairly easy to change.


I have to admit that I have never used tv out from an IBM thinkpad, my only experience is with Dell laptops, so I am assuming they work in the same way. Does the manual that came with your laptop not shed any light on the matter.

[olly]

actually the IBM page seems to have a fairly good resource on this matter. I do not know which laptop you have so am not sure if its relevant but it mentions an update to support tv out in the following link.

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&q1=using+TV+out+on+thinkpad&uid=psg1MIGR-4GPMCT&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&cc=us&lang=en