I have a HP Pavilion dv9000 with Windows Vista and a Samsung HDTV with a (HDMI,Component,DVI, and VGA HD content) inputs. I want to buy a cable and or software to connect them and use my TV sometimes like a second screen.
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If your laptop has VGA you can use that, or if it has HDMI you can use that. You don’t need any software. If you turn the TV on and boot your laptop with the TV connected it would probably automatically use the external display. fn+f4 apparently toggles between various combination of displays (external display, laptop screen and external, or laptop display).
You probably either have a video utility or you can right click on the desktop and click Properties if you need to adjust resolutions or to select whether the external display duplicates the laptop screen or acts as expanded desktop.
For example when I originally connected my LCD TV to my Toshiba laptop VGA it defaulted to 800×600 and I had to up the external screen resolution from the laptop. XP thought the display was 1360×764, but the TV recognized it as its native 1366×768 and everything was sharp.
Well you might try to see if using HDMI cable can do the trick in connecting it to your HDTV. But if it still not You’ll need to see if S video cable can connect them .
You can go to Walmart, or Radio Shack, or some kind of tech place and get either a S-Video cable or a HDMI cable to connect. If you use HDMI your computer will automatically set it up. If not, use the S-Video. Turn off your laptop, connect the cable, turn your TV on and put it on the proper input. Turn the laptop on, go to your desktop, right click out in the open, click on Personalize. The window that comes up, click on “Display Settings”. THis will bring you up to the window that allows you to make the TV the primary or secondary screen. The rest is self explanatory.