Best way to watch movies on a laptop...?

[Eunuch Provocateur]

I don't know if this is the right forum, but what the hell:

As a college student, my only means of watching films are on my laptop. And I hate it. The white backlight is always shining through in the darker moments. White light shooting up from the bottom of the screen. It totally sucks.

Is there anything I can do to alleviate this or am I fucked? Turning down the screen brightness only seems to make it worse.

[Evil Hobbit]

Hm, maybe you can dim the backlight on your laptop? I have a macbook and it has a button for it.

[SilentBobX]

Only advice I can give is not to set the laptop on your actual lap since repeated exposure has been proven to cause problems in the family jewels.

Mahalo

[Fried Gold]

I ran through one of the THX calibration methods you get on some DVDs. Seemed to work fine for my laptop.

[Worst Part's Almost Over]

With good speakers. Those tinny laptop speakers always annoy the hell out of me!

[jumbika]

Hi all, I am a travelling salesman. I sell VCDs and CDROMs from my van (mobile unit). I wish to connect my Dell Sempron laptop to an external battery in order to display the CDs to my customers at fairs and exhibitions. Will a regular car battery be able to power my laptop for a few hours each day? Will this supplement the battery that is already in the laptop? Can I connect the external battery to the van so that it recharges when the vehicle is running?
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[RogueScribner]

Try this.

[Fried Gold]

Hi all, I am a travelling salesman. I sell VCDs and CDROMs from my van (mobile unit). I wish to connect my Dell Sempron laptop to an external battery in order to display the CDs to my customers at fairs and exhibitions. Will a regular car battery be able to power my laptop for a few hours each day? Will this supplement the battery that is already in the laptop? Can I connect the external battery to the van so that it recharges when the vehicle is running?

Are you sending this message from the mid-1990s?

[Bayouwolf]

Hi all, I am a travelling salesman. I sell VCDs and CDROMs from my van (mobile unit). I wish to connect my Dell Sempron laptop to an external battery in order to display the CDs to my customers at fairs and exhibitions. Will a regular car battery be able to power my laptop for a few hours each day? Will this supplement the battery that is already in the laptop? Can I connect the external battery to the van so that it recharges when the vehicle is running?

Just plug it into the van's 8-track adapter. Remember to flip the adapter over about every 27 minutes.

[Fried Gold]

It's all about getting the best discrete optimization alogirithmm, right Adam Balm?


...Adam Balm?

[Chris a.k.a StuntMike]

Hi all, I am a travelling salesman. I sell VCDs and CDROMs from my van (mobile unit). I wish to connect my Dell Sempron laptop to an external battery in order to display the CDs to my customers at fairs and exhibitions. Will a regular car battery be able to power my laptop for a few hours each day? Will this supplement the battery that is already in the laptop? Can I connect the external battery to the van so that it recharges when the vehicle is running?

John Titor is back!

[spock of the walk]

Hi all, I am a travelling salesman. I sell VCDs and CDROMs from my van (mobile unit). I wish to connect my Dell Sempron laptop to an external battery in order to display the CDs to my customers at fairs and exhibitions. Will a regular car battery be able to power my laptop for a few hours each day? Will this supplement the battery that is already in the laptop? Can I connect the external battery to the van so that it recharges when the vehicle is running?

on a related note i am thinking about converting all my vhs tapes to laserdisk. anyone know the best way to go about this?

[papalazeru]

Hi all, I am a travelling salesman. I sell VCDs and CDROMs from my van (mobile unit). I wish to connect my Dell Sempron laptop to an external battery in order to display the CDs to my customers at fairs and exhibitions. Will a regular car battery be able to power my laptop for a few hours each day? Will this supplement the battery that is already in the laptop? Can I connect the external battery to the van so that it recharges when the vehicle is running?

on a related note i am thinking about converting all my vhs tapes to laserdisk. anyone know the best way to go about this?

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