Where's the sound?

Question

OK so I want to transfer the sound from my laptop to my lcd tv, so i went to the shop and the guy gave me a " mini jack to 2 RCA cables" said this would work, as of yet cant get any sound..... is it the wrong cable or do i have to set it up a certain way?

Answer 1

these plugs normally run from headphone socket to the red white inputs on a TV only problem is that if the TV is running on a VGA or dvi cable it is expecting to receive a digital sound input and RCA are analogue,

to test this plug them in and turn TV to s-video or video you will hear the sound but have a blank screen as the picture will be on the av channel

Answer 2

it should work ive done it before, that is definitly the right wire, make sure your tv is on input (whichever input is the jack youre using) and i know its stupid but make sure your laptop's volume is up along with the volume on the tv... ive made that mistake before