i need video to tv help please

[arthoffman]

i know nothing about computers. thats just a start. i wanted to put my laptop view onto my tv to watch movie and the like. i have sony vaio with a petium dual core, but its like 3 years old at least. it does have vista. so i bought a chord that has an end that goes into my laptop that would be for an exteral monitor and the other end it an s video and a yellow rca cable. the problum is there is nothing to make it work. my friend helped me to find out his dell has tvwsetup.exe and works through an s video port on his computer. can i download some software to make my computer send a signal form the port for a monitor to an s video or RCA cable. i dont have this tvwsetup.exe and would like to not have to get a new computer. my computer doesnt have an s video but i have that adapter cable. can anyone give me some help please
art

[delacy__david]

Quoting - arthoffman

i know nothing about computers. thats just a start. i wanted to put my laptop view onto my tv to watch movie and the like. i have sony vaio with a petium dual core, but its like 3 years old at least. it does have vista. so i bought a chord that has an end that goes into my laptop that would be for an exteral monitor and the other end it an s video and a yellow rca cable. the problum is there is nothing to make it work. my friend helped me to find out his dell has tvwsetup.exe and works through an s video port on his computer. can i download some software to make my computer send a signal form the port for a monitor to an s video or RCA cable. i dont have this tvwsetup.exe and would like to not have to get a new computer. my computer doesnt have an s video but i have that adapter cable. can anyone give me some help please
art

your computer has to output the correct connector type that your tv takes as an input
svideo, component, composit, HDMI are all tv outputs your system has to output tv on one of those and the tv has to be able to recieve the same output