Comments on: Can I Get A Clear Picture From A Laptop Through A Video Switch To An Xga Projector? http://www.portabledigitalprojectors.org/tips-and-hints/can-i-get-a-clear-picture-from-a-laptop-through-a-video-switch-to-an-xga-projector/ Discount Portable Multimedia Projectors Cheap Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:07:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: bestonne http://www.portabledigitalprojectors.org/tips-and-hints/can-i-get-a-clear-picture-from-a-laptop-through-a-video-switch-to-an-xga-projector/comment-page-1/#comment-414 bestonne Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:40:32 +0000 http://www.portabledigitalprojectors.org/portable-digital-projectors/can-i-get-a-clear-picture-from-a-laptop-through-a-video-switch-to-an-xga-projector/#comment-414 Not with S-Video. If you run the projector straight from the VGA port then you'll get a very clear image (because the VGA connector was designed to handle computer graphics, though it can start to have problems when you push past UXGA) but you'll never get a good image from a computer using the TV out feature (S-Video just can't transmit a very clear image). If the projector can handle PAL and you're outputting NTSC then switching to PAL might give you better image quality (as PAL tends to transmit with 576 visible scan lines while NTSC only transmits 480) although even then it'll be crap (just a bit less crappy than NTSC). A VGA matrix would probably be better (and use the projector input select to get S-Video for the DVD player). Not with S-Video.
If you run the projector straight from the VGA port then you’ll get a very clear image (because the VGA connector was designed to handle computer graphics, though it can start to have problems when you push past UXGA) but you’ll never get a good image from a computer using the TV out feature (S-Video just can’t transmit a very clear image).
If the projector can handle PAL and you’re outputting NTSC then switching to PAL might give you better image quality (as PAL tends to transmit with 576 visible scan lines while NTSC only transmits 480) although even then it’ll be crap (just a bit less crappy than NTSC).
A VGA matrix would probably be better (and use the projector input select to get S-Video for the DVD player).

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