TV video out
 

My laptop has a socket on the back for playing the DVD through a normal TV. It came with a tiny adaptor lead which plugs in to the computer but what does the other end plug in to?
The computer side has seven little pins arranged horizontally 3 over 4.
The other end looks like the female end of a phono plug?

Sounds like an S-Video socket. Most newer TVs have this type of socket on the back.

Thanks, the little 7 pin jobbie on the computer is called the 'S video out' socket but what is the other end. The lead is only 3 inches long so it will have to plug into another lead and ultimately a scart to the TV

Magnet...can you choose what format the signal is put out at? NTSC? PAL (system I)?

Do you have a choice - and is this software driven or hardware driven?

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The small lead supplied with the laptop is a S Video to phono converter. The S Video socket outputs the video channel to the TV and the type of lead reqd depends on the available inputs on the TV. If you have a s video input then buy a cable with a s video plug on each end, the audio channel comes from the headphone/audio out socket so you'll need a stereo minijack to phono lead.

If you only have scart inputs you'll need a s video cable that has a phono plug on one end, this together with the audio phono plugs connect to a scart plug that has phono sockets on the back. These cables can be bought from any decent electrical retailer.