hello, all loving my z1 and avic411.

question.

i want to use my laptop svideo out and input that to the z1's rca.

i tried but the screen looks weird. i'm guessing the aspect of the z1 and the laptop is different but i can't set the laptop's resolution to match the z1.

any software that can help with that?

to have it set properly on the z1's screen?

thanks

the only suggestion would be the software within your laptop.

Or it could be the svideo chips in the laptop. Anyone who has tried to make a media center computer and hook it to an old TV will know the headaches associated with getting a computer to output over RCA or Svideo. Generally they look like garbage. Something I read about the chips in the video "card" (I know you have a laptop and no card) are usually substandard video chips to make Svideo or RCA. After trying 3 different video cards I noticed a huge difference between quality of TV out from video card to video card. The media center community had a couple favorite cards which have decent svideo out. But you can't change that in your laptop.

Basically, RCA and Svideo outs from laptops and computers don't have very good video and generally don't look very good either. I would bet there is nothing you can do. If you wanted to, try playing a DVD video in power DVD or whatever player you have and play it full screen, I'll bet it will look decent.

But I guess it depends on your definition of "weird". If I had to describe what I saw when trying to do this. It looks like it's working and you can tell the PC's screen is being output to the Svideo/rca but it's not good enough to use. If you used the windows media center interface it would look better or playing a DVD would look better, but the PC's standard desktop is looks so bad you wouldn't want to use it.

not to mention, how big are your icons on the screen? they are stupid tiny in my opinion. It really would be an option for media player. But then there are other options for that that are a bit better quality and usability.