hoping someone can figure this one out..its bizarre..I just bought a plasma TV and hooked my laptop up to it with a S video cable..every works great...looks sharp.but...for some strange reason.when I play a movie on my laptop..everything shows on the TV but the picture.when i play a song in Windows media Player you can see the visualizations(Electric rainbow,neon hwy..etc) on the TV...so its working...but..as soon as I play a movie on WMP..the picture disappears on the TV...but plays on the computer.
if anyone understands this...please offer a suggestion
A quick workaround is to set your secondary display (the TV) as the primary in the display settings area. That will allow your video to display on the TV.
Since you have a plasma, you could get much better performance if you connect your laptop with a VGA or DVI/HDMI connection. The manual for your TV should tell you what kind of PC connection options it supports.