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Tried and tested! [pics coming soon]
Required Items
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Any Asus eee [any laptop for that matter, but an eee is better because its tiny, i used a 701]
A modern TV [any with a scart port in the back]
A VGA to SCART cable [check ebay, i did Lots of them, cheap too]
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Turn your eee on and load up a video, plug the vga cable into your eee and the scart side into your tv - turn your tv to the correct AV channel and you should be seeing your eee desktop [quality varies depending on size of tv, i have a big tv and it worked fine].
Play any video...maximise the playback....and....well.....there you go.
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er, dont most modern tv's (lcd ones at least) have vga or dvi connectors on them...?
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lcd ones do yea, but old tv's are still being sold at the store i work at 
but yep - its easier to use vga to vga on a lcd tv
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I do the same, except I simply use a VGA monitor cable (my LCD has a VGA connector). I also use a cable which plugs into the headphone socket and goes into 'Audio In' on the LCD for sound. Don't know the proper name for this cable - I picked it from Maplin - it has one red and one yellow connector on the TV side, and a headphone plug on the other.
Works a treat!
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technical name for your audio cable would be 3.5mm stereo minijack to RCA.
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HOLD ON A SECOND!
the eeepc vga supports TV OUT via S-video?!
usually a PC desktop would need a Gpx card with Tv-out to support s-video, as a vga cable to scart wouldnt work or so i thought?
my understanding of this, is a "converter" would be needed to change SVGA to scart, a box costing a good £30-£40
can someone please clear this up, can some link to the ebay cable they HAVE tested and working cable
thanks!
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There is a lot you can do with a little unit like this, you can hook it up to an external display if you like. Play games on it.
Another neat media idea is toss your music collection on there and go buy one of those 1/8" headphone jack into FM broadcast units and then tune in your music on your car radio. I used to do this with my car way back in the day before CD players became standard, but even if you have a CD player its hard to fit 500+ cd's worth of music in the car 
If you happen to use the EEE for GPS and have a mount for the notebook like I am going to do, then being able to turn on a visualization the is just icing on the cake
If you really wanted to take it a step further, get a remote for it
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blackice wrote:
HOLD ON A SECOND!
the eeepc vga supports TV OUT via S-video?!
usually a PC desktop would need a Gpx card with Tv-out to support s-video, as a vga cable to scart wouldnt work or so i thought?
my understanding of this, is a "converter" would be needed to change SVGA to scart, a box costing a good £30-£40
can someone please clear this up, can some link to the ebay cable they HAVE tested and working cable
thanks!
That was my first reaction as well.
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radioactivecheese wrote:
technical name for your audio cable would be 3.5mm stereo minijack to RCA.
Thanks radioactivecheese - can always rely on this forums being a font of knowledge!
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You could try using XBMC as well, for a nicer interface.
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Somebody posted a program that lets you use any computer on your network as a 2nd display.
That would work for me too since my desktop is using a 37" monitor.
But unless I had some files on the EEE that my desktop did not have I would just use the desktop of course.
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I had wondered if the Eee has composite / S-Video out alongside the VGA signal.
Was going to get one of these first to find out. If it worked I was going to put an S-Video or RCA socket where the right 'plastic hinge cover / silver disk thing' is located.
Can someone who has one of these adapters confirm if this is the case?
VGA to SCART works because SCART uses the same RGB signal as VGA, a proper converter box just does some voodoo with the H/V sync to make it compatible with scart...
If your VGA card supports it, pin 15 will be outputting a composite sync signal, making the above unnessecary...
RCA composite requires a video card which outputs a compatible signal on the unused VGA pins.
I highly doubt that the Eee graphics card does this, but I had planned on trying it anyway, as it'd be neat if it does.
Last edited by DEADBEEF (2008-09-29 11:54:09 am)
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DEADBEEF wrote:
RCA composite requires a video card which outputs a compatible signal on the unused VGA pins.
I highly doubt that the Eee graphics card does this, but I had planned on trying it anyway, as it'd be neat if it does.
Unless someone can say otherwise, this adapter doesn't work S-VHS to Composite, or just composite.
Windows XP recognises another adapter in the S-VHS cable, but not the composite.
By this I mean that the composite shows nothing, but plugging in the S-VHS to a composite input gave the new hardware sound, and the Intel Graphics option gave me two monitors.
Unfortunately chinese televisions don't have S-VHS in, and the S-VHS to composite gave just black screen.
May be encouraging that windows is detecting something when composite was plugged into the S-VHS.
DavidJ.
ps. I would really love to get this to work.
I have RCA Y/U/V on input 1, and RCA video & L/R audio on the other.
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Dante,
Can you please upload pictures etc, and does a simple VGa to RGB cable really work?
Did y ou change anything in the settings?>
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no scart in north america 
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if you have a home entertainment appliance (e.g. Wii, PS3, XBox) the easiest way is to stream your media. solutions are plenty.
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i don't have any of these,
and yes, i Do live in europe so scart seems fine to me:P
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Molly wrote:
if you have a home entertainment appliance (e.g. Wii, PS3, XBox) the easiest way is to stream your media. solutions are plenty.
Even over the Wii ?
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Can anyone confirm this is correct? **********VGA to Scart cable************
Up till this point I was convinced a convertor box would be required - giving VGA to S-video.
If anyone has made a simple VGA to Scart cable (no convertor) to work for an asus eee 1000h I would be well pleased to know.
Pics or links of the cable used would be a bonus!
(Ebay seems to have lots of Scart to VGA, but the VGA is male not female...)
Cheers
Grant
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Hi,
VGA to RGB leads do exist and work fairly well.
They are a bit of a "bodge" as the signal levels
etc don't match.
However, a few passive electronics components
are all that's needed to get things mostly sorted.
These are usually inside one of the plug casings.
Don't make a lead that that is a direct (without
passive components) VGA to RGB connection.
Doing this will almost definately mess up the
TV and may damage your eee.
.....rainyday
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what about this?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VGA-Cable-Adapter … 1|240:1318
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I've posted this a few times before but you need a proper convertor box and not a VGA to scart lead.
Hacking a VGA signal is possible but difficult, I once did it using an old matrox card, powerstrip and a PSOne LCD screen but it was never perfect.
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the intel video set in the eee supports many different types of video out formats. while pouring through the data sheets i founf that it has several forms of LVDS/composite/VGA/DVI and other variants... pretty neat. problem is that it's a BGA chip so no luck on splicing any of them
Last edited by RandyLude92 (2009-01-14 1:59:45 pm)
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I am trying to get a vga-scart convert to work on my eeepc 900. I have made it myself, and it looks roughly like the one describe above. I have used it successfully on another computer, so I know the converter works.
But I have had no success with the eeepc. I am currently testing it using linux (ubuntu 8.1 intrepid), where it normally is easier to control all the display settings, including the timing. However, the intel 915gm video card has all possible display settings stored in the hardware and can not directly be controlled from the software.
There exists some tricks to redefine some of the existing settings to get custom resolutions, but also the refresh rate has to be modified to match the rates expected by the TV. So far I have not been able to find any solution for this. But I will investigate it further.
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melfon wrote:
I am trying to get a vga-scart convert to work on my eeepc 900. I have made it myself, and it looks roughly like the one describe above. I have used it successfully on another computer, so I know the converter works.
But I have had no success with the eeepc. I am currently testing it using linux (ubuntu 8.1 intrepid), where it normally is easier to control all the display settings, including the timing. However, the intel 915gm video card has all possible display settings stored in the hardware and can not directly be controlled from the software.
There exists some tricks to redefine some of the existing settings to get custom resolutions, but also the refresh rate has to be modified to match the rates expected by the TV. So far I have not been able to find any solution for this. But I will investigate it further.
Try Powerstrip for advanced timings etc but ***BE VERY CAREFUL****
http://entechtaiwan.com/util/ps.shtm
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