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Ok...I need advice...some assistance if you can help me!

I am enjoying watching Buffy (from hulu.com) on my laptop, but would rather be able to watch it on my TV screen. I have an RGB port on my laptop and an S-Video port, firewire port and also a USB port on my DVD recorder that is hooked up to my TV. I also have the standard composite (yellow red white) setup.

Is there such a thing as a cable that will go from my computer to my DVD recorder and ultimately show my Buffy on my TV screen?

In the past I've used a cable that has S-Video on one end and male RGB connectors on the other...I plugged the S-Video to the laptop and RGB to the TV (I guess it could work to the DVD recorder, probably), and then you have to go into the settings for the display and tell it to use the TV as the primary, otherwise the video box doesn't show. As I recall, in XP, I just had to right-click on the desktop, go to settings, and select the TV. Might have had to click on advanced and got into the card settings, but I don't recall.

One caveat is that the S-Video to RGB would only give you video. Doesn't cover audio. I keep thinking about picking up something like this that would include audio as well...but haven't yet.

Can you also tell me what your dvd recorder model is? You say it has a usb port, I’m wondering if it’s smart enough to read a video file off a usb device and play that.