Can anyone out there tell me what I need to hook my laptop up to my tv so that I may watch dvds I have burned from my laptop on my t.v.
Listen through music on stereo but wondering about video as well
Thanks for any help ideas in advance

It depends on what's on the back of your laptop, if you have an S-video out or an RCA out jack. My laptop has an S-video jack and as far as the sound goes you can buy and adapter that will go from the headphone jack into RCA jacks.

Cant you watch the movies on a DVD player?? I burn all mine to DVD as far as the reast I have no Idea sorry

yes I have a dvd.. I am just wondering how I may watch movies that I may or may not of downloaded from a certain file sharing service.I can not figure out how to burn them in the right format that will play in a dvd hard to watch a full length movie with family on the old computer

Belicked is pretty much dead on as far as the easiest solution for you. If you don't have S-video output on your laptop, you'd have to get some sort of USB or PCMCIA card w/ dongle that would have the connections you need. I won't get really far into it cuz I don't know what you have. I think you'd be best off figuring out your DVD problem, though. That'd be the cheapest solution... unless, of course, you DVD player does not read home-made DVDs.

Good luck. Keep us updated and we'll help where we can.