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shithawk420 · 09-05-2015, 11:28 PM

If your tv isnt hdmi compatable,is there some kinda adapter cable you can use?

dddaver · 09-07-2015, 09:29 PM

My TV is 55" Vizio smart POS too (but really is fucking stupid if you ask me) and I got another HDMI cable just to hook the computer to it, besides the surround sound and blue ray player. I just got a 1TeraByte dvr too.

Those dvr's sure are cool. You can pause and replay live TV, or save it for later on too. All 4 HDMI inputs are used on that Vizio POS now though. And no game console is even hooked to it either. POS!

There are some things sent over the computer that are different than sent for just TV broadcast. Pandora for instance. On the computer it has lyrics sometimes and some band bios. I don't get that on just the TV Pandora. That is also why I decided not to Chromecast or another dongle. Limited.

The wierd part is, I don't actually watch much TV, mostly just movies. I just like that techy shit.

dddaver · 09-20-2015, 05:35 AM

The hook-up used to be easy. Just HDMI cord, PC output to TV input. I had actually done it right after I got the computer to see if it worked. It did. Very cool.

It doesn't work anymore. No clue why not. Tried many things, different cords, different laptops, different operating systems, nothing worked. Software updates, terminal commands, whatever I could think of that might work. Nothing. Physically moving around so much, to the TV and back and forth, getting my other laptop, whatever, is hard for me because my balance is so fucked up now I lurch around like a drunken zombie anymore. I knew the HDMI input on the TV worked though, my dvr worked on that input fine. Damn frustrating.

But I never liked that "smart" TV shit though. Once you set up the passwords it, it is always on-line as long as the TV is on. Can't shut it off and on. ON Vizio it's like that anyway. And that just sucks. Actually most of that WiFi capable shit that I have sucks pretty much. They are all huge bandwidth hogs. I have a TV, a printer, a DVD, a camera, that all are wifi capable, and they ALL suck at it. They all won't do something another one will. But all can advertise they are wifi capable to be marketable. But are just huge bandwidth hogs and that bandwidth crap is just getting more and more expensive, not cheaper, and all those units are complicated as hell to use the wifi too.

So I ordered that Chromecast POS for my TV. Sounded so cool. The Ubuntu forum on-line said it would work fine on Linux, so I broke down and ordered one. It DOES NOT work on Ubuntu. Yet anyway. One thing that is annoying about that Ubuntu forum is that since it is open source, every punk-ass computer geek in the world writes in it, mostly just shit too. And then they each say try this, or try this, or this. It's all try it and see if that works. Kinda annoying.

So I spent HOURS trying to make that Chromecast thing work, even shutting the firewall off a couple times because a couple computer nerds said that worked for them. FUCK! I just have to back away from the fucker and regroup. This ain't over, the little bastard. I don't quit. I will not be defeated by a bunch of wires and silicon chips.

I have Windows on another laptop though. I'm sure that security swiss cheese piece of shit would work. Between them and Google, I might as well send just them all my bank account numbers and mutual fund numbers first and then fugit-about-it... Maybe if I sent Google pictures of my dick it might start working.

THAT is the main reason that Google won't let Googlecast on Linux yet though. Because Google doesn't OWN them...yet. Because Linux doesn't think that everybody, except of course just Google themselves and also just the top people at MS or Apple, but everybody else, should just share everything with everybody all the time.

Fuck em.

God I'm a such fucking nerd. See what boredom can do kids?

oti$ · 09-20-2015, 07:59 AM

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dddaver · 09-28-2015, 06:27 PM

I spent a lot of time figuring out why that Chromecast wouldn't work for me. I finally read I had to have the UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) enabled on my router. Fucking Google tells people to enable that. But both Homeland Security and the FBI advise against doing that because it opens up your computer to whatever Trojans, malware and viruses are out there because it lets any device at all on your network connect to your computer. So screw it.

I disabled all my wifi enabled devices before because something was stealing my bandwidth, which is pretty expensive here. Fixed that back then. But I now am convinced all that cloud shit and wifi enabled shit is just a stupid pie in the sky idea thought up by people with no grasp of reality and just want to sell shit and make money. No concern for anything but that.

Until they can figure out how to make it all more secure, I just ain't interested. Strangely, I just want my computer to keep working, and working for ME, since I am the one paying for it. That is apparently a wrong idea to have now anymore. DOH! Maybe I'm just getting too old to play this silly shit. It just all seems so strange to me that trickery and deceit seem to be such a big part of that business and people just accept it.

dddaver · 10-05-2015, 11:02 PM

I was bored and screwing around and tried that hdmi cord to an older Sanyo I have, and it worked! I have no clue really why. So I took the cord out and tried it on the big Vizio again. Shazam! Not a clue why really, just did.

I recommend the cord thing though. Anything you get on your PC is sent to the TV. I even got Pandora going over my surround sound now. Rocks. Big screen porn is weird. Titties bigger than your head?

You might have to screw with the screen resolution from the PC to get that to work. Maybe that was why it works now, different resolution.

sourpuss · 10-05-2015, 11:58 PM

Yep its hdmi u want. Next best is a vga/pc cable. S video cable tops at 720 I I believe. For computer thats light years behind in resolution..... yeah im a nerd too.. was a home theatre installer for a few years...

Shall I continue for the interested haha... component cables red blue green. Top out at 1080i some devices suppirt 1080p few far between. Yesh never thought id dredge up this knowledfe.

Those red yellow white. Suck balls never use those in this day an age. 480i I think. Svideo is outdated as well.

Chromecast is the bomb!! 40 bucks. Limited but capable device for what it does.

Shell out 100 get a nice android tv box. Put on kodi and netfix and your set. Put your laptop away....

FishmanK · 04-24-2016, 06:53 PM

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Originally Posted by dddaver

I was bored and screwing around and tried that hdmi cord to an older Sanyo I have, and it worked! I have no clue really why. So I took the cord out and tried it on the big Vizio again. Shazam! Not a clue why really, just did.

I recommend the cord thing though. Anything you get on your PC is sent to the TV. I even got Pandora going over my surround sound now. Rocks. Big screen porn is weird. Titties bigger than your head?

You might have to screw with the screen resolution from the PC to get that to work. Maybe that was why it works now, different resolution.

often TVs arent able to display the resolution and changing the resolution output will fix issues with not displaying on HDMI cable

also on the security w the "Unplug and play"
there's a guy named steve gibson who is an egghead security guy w a cool site that has much info on this
grc.com
his FREE port scanner service (SHIELDS UP!) is great when reconfiguring your machine to test yourself for open ports!!

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09-07-2015, 09:29 PM	#12
dddaver Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: uh...yeah Posts: 2,345	My TV is 55" Vizio smart POS too (but really is fucking stupid if you ask me) and I got another HDMI cable just to hook the computer to it, besides the surround sound and blue ray player. I just got a 1TeraByte dvr too. Those dvr's sure are cool. You can pause and replay live TV, or save it for later on too. All 4 HDMI inputs are used on that Vizio POS now though. And no game console is even hooked to it either. POS! There are some things sent over the computer that are different than sent for just TV broadcast. Pandora for instance. On the computer it has lyrics sometimes and some band bios. I don't get that on just the TV Pandora. That is also why I decided not to Chromecast or another dongle. Limited. The wierd part is, I don't actually watch much TV, mostly just movies. I just like that techy shit. __________________ my gggeneration DAV - I can't decide which I like better: either, arguing on the internet is like winning in the Special Olympics, you might win but you're still retarded; or never argue with an idiot, they will drag you down to their level, and beat you with experience; or you can't fix stupid, so why argue with it? They all are funny, and all are true too. "Well, da Nile ain't just some big river in Egypt neither." "No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke, "There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate, So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late. -Bob Dylan: All Along the Watchtower Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. -George Carlin "The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise Man knows himself to be a fool" -William Shakespeare Long signatures suck. -dddaver
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09-20-2015, 05:35 AM	#13
dddaver Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: uh...yeah Posts: 2,345	The hook-up used to be easy. Just HDMI cord, PC output to TV input. I had actually done it right after I got the computer to see if it worked. It did. Very cool. It doesn't work anymore. No clue why not. Tried many things, different cords, different laptops, different operating systems, nothing worked. Software updates, terminal commands, whatever I could think of that might work. Nothing. Physically moving around so much, to the TV and back and forth, getting my other laptop, whatever, is hard for me because my balance is so fucked up now I lurch around like a drunken zombie anymore. I knew the HDMI input on the TV worked though, my dvr worked on that input fine. Damn frustrating. But I never liked that "smart" TV shit though. Once you set up the passwords it, it is always on-line as long as the TV is on. Can't shut it off and on. ON Vizio it's like that anyway. And that just sucks. Actually most of that WiFi capable shit that I have sucks pretty much. They are all huge bandwidth hogs. I have a TV, a printer, a DVD, a camera, that all are wifi capable, and they ALL suck at it. They all won't do something another one will. But all can advertise they are wifi capable to be marketable. But are just huge bandwidth hogs and that bandwidth crap is just getting more and more expensive, not cheaper, and all those units are complicated as hell to use the wifi too. So I ordered that Chromecast POS for my TV. Sounded so cool. The Ubuntu forum on-line said it would work fine on Linux, so I broke down and ordered one. It DOES NOT work on Ubuntu. Yet anyway. One thing that is annoying about that Ubuntu forum is that since it is open source, every punk-ass computer geek in the world writes in it, mostly just shit too. And then they each say try this, or try this, or this. It's all try it and see if that works. Kinda annoying. So I spent HOURS trying to make that Chromecast thing work, even shutting the firewall off a couple times because a couple computer nerds said that worked for them. FUCK! I just have to back away from the fucker and regroup. This ain't over, the little bastard. I don't quit. I will not be defeated by a bunch of wires and silicon chips. I have Windows on another laptop though. I'm sure that security swiss cheese piece of shit would work. Between them and Google, I might as well send just them all my bank account numbers and mutual fund numbers first and then fugit-about-it... Maybe if I sent Google pictures of my dick it might start working. THAT is the main reason that Google won't let Googlecast on Linux yet though. Because Google doesn't OWN them...yet. Because Linux doesn't think that everybody, except of course just Google themselves and also just the top people at MS or Apple, but everybody else, should just share everything with everybody all the time. Fuck em. God I'm a such fucking nerd. See what boredom can do kids? __________________ my gggeneration DAV - I can't decide which I like better: either, arguing on the internet is like winning in the Special Olympics, you might win but you're still retarded; or never argue with an idiot, they will drag you down to their level, and beat you with experience; or you can't fix stupid, so why argue with it? They all are funny, and all are true too. "Well, da Nile ain't just some big river in Egypt neither." "No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke, "There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate, So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late. -Bob Dylan: All Along the Watchtower Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. -George Carlin "The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise Man knows himself to be a fool" -William Shakespeare Long signatures suck. -dddaver
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09-28-2015, 06:27 PM	#15
dddaver Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: uh...yeah Posts: 2,345	I spent a lot of time figuring out why that Chromecast wouldn't work for me. I finally read I had to have the UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) enabled on my router. Fucking Google tells people to enable that. But both Homeland Security and the FBI advise against doing that because it opens up your computer to whatever Trojans, malware and viruses are out there because it lets any device at all on your network connect to your computer. So screw it. I disabled all my wifi enabled devices before because something was stealing my bandwidth, which is pretty expensive here. Fixed that back then. But I now am convinced all that cloud shit and wifi enabled shit is just a stupid pie in the sky idea thought up by people with no grasp of reality and just want to sell shit and make money. No concern for anything but that. Until they can figure out how to make it all more secure, I just ain't interested. Strangely, I just want my computer to keep working, and working for ME, since I am the one paying for it. That is apparently a wrong idea to have now anymore. DOH! Maybe I'm just getting too old to play this silly shit. It just all seems so strange to me that trickery and deceit seem to be such a big part of that business and people just accept it. __________________ my gggeneration DAV - I can't decide which I like better: either, arguing on the internet is like winning in the Special Olympics, you might win but you're still retarded; or never argue with an idiot, they will drag you down to their level, and beat you with experience; or you can't fix stupid, so why argue with it? They all are funny, and all are true too. "Well, da Nile ain't just some big river in Egypt neither." "No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke, "There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate, So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late. -Bob Dylan: All Along the Watchtower Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. -George Carlin "The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise Man knows himself to be a fool" -William Shakespeare Long signatures suck. -dddaver
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10-05-2015, 11:02 PM	#16
dddaver Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: uh...yeah Posts: 2,345	I was bored and screwing around and tried that hdmi cord to an older Sanyo I have, and it worked! I have no clue really why. So I took the cord out and tried it on the big Vizio again. Shazam! Not a clue why really, just did. I recommend the cord thing though. Anything you get on your PC is sent to the TV. I even got Pandora going over my surround sound now. Rocks. Big screen porn is weird. Titties bigger than your head? You might have to screw with the screen resolution from the PC to get that to work. Maybe that was why it works now, different resolution. __________________ my gggeneration DAV - I can't decide which I like better: either, arguing on the internet is like winning in the Special Olympics, you might win but you're still retarded; or never argue with an idiot, they will drag you down to their level, and beat you with experience; or you can't fix stupid, so why argue with it? They all are funny, and all are true too. "Well, da Nile ain't just some big river in Egypt neither." "No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke, "There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate, So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late. -Bob Dylan: All Along the Watchtower Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. -George Carlin "The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise Man knows himself to be a fool" -William Shakespeare Long signatures suck. -dddaver
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10-05-2015, 11:58 PM	#17
sourpuss Rainman Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: Ontario Posts: 3,761	Yep its hdmi u want. Next best is a vga/pc cable. S video cable tops at 720 I I believe. For computer thats light years behind in resolution..... yeah im a nerd too.. was a home theatre installer for a few years... Shall I continue for the interested haha... component cables red blue green. Top out at 1080i some devices suppirt 1080p few far between. Yesh never thought id dredge up this knowledfe. Those red yellow white. Suck balls never use those in this day an age. 480i I think. Svideo is outdated as well. Chromecast is the bomb!! 40 bucks. Limited but capable device for what it does. Shell out 100 get a nice android tv box. Put on kodi and netfix and your set. Put your laptop away....
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