If you have been out shopping for a laptop, you may have notice that some of them come with HDMI interfaces.  A HDMI (high definition multimedia interface) port allows you to hook up your laptop to most of the new LCD, plasma, and projection televisions.  The HDMI port replaces the DVI (digital video input) port found on some older gaming laptops.

I had the opportunity to try out a laptop today with a number of different televisions.  The laptop in question was a gaming laptop, worth about $1599 CDN.  It has a GeForce Go 7600 dedicated card (with 256 Mb), 2 GB of ram, and a 17" screen.

The televisions that I hooked this notebook up to were a Samsung 40" LCD TV, a Sanyo 27" LCD TV, and a Philips 63" Plasma TV.

The laptop was hooked up to the television with a six foot HDMI cable and I attempted to get a resolution higher than 1024x768.

Not to give specific reviews of the laptop and televisions used in the test (we are not a review site), I was unable to successfully get the screens to display 1920x1080 (the resolution used for HD TV).  I did have some success, but the limitations of the TVs and control panel for the video card, did not allow me to show the whole screen properly.  Specifically the edges of the screen were all cut off.  There were also some issues with respect to the screen refresh rate.  Bear in mind that I didn't install any drivers for the TVs before testing them out.

Immature drivers for Vista, and rush testing, may have impacted the results.  I will take a look at the HDMI output on laptops at a later date to see if there have been any improvements.

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