Setup Thinkpad T40p for Watching DVD via S-Video Out
Setup Thinkpad T40p for Watching DVD via S-Video Out
Already use Lenovo Thinkpad T40p for a few years, someone just aware that he has a problem to watch DVD via s-video output. Actually, by make enable the s-video and connecting T40 to the TV everything is fine and even the desktop is shown at the TV correctly. But the problem is when he uses DVD player software to show a DVD, there is no content showing on the TV at all. Whereas, all of DVD’s content displaying clearly on the computer.
Besides changes the configuration, to resolve the problem of unable watch DVD on TV that connecting to T40p Lenovo Thinkpad via s-video output is set up a custom display scheme using the “presentation director”.
Presentation director is the one option which can be accessed from the “ThinkPad configuration”. It was locate under the “display” pull down menu. There you need create a custom scheme called “dvd”. This will
sets the external screen resolution at 640X480 automatically.
Setup custom scheme to DVD on the ThinkPad configuration makes T40p compatible with standard NTSC TV resolution. It’s also useful avoid the necessity of changing the display resolution prior to activating the s-video output. And the best one, you can select the scheme created using FN+F7 key to make it quick and easy.
















