VGA and S-video

Can I use both a VGA device and a S-Video device at the same time? Anyone know of a workaround on this??
Thanks!!

are you wanting to put the same or different images on the two devices? if all you are looking to do is twin the video output then some type of splitter with media converter might work - but if you are trying to have three monitors with different items displayed then I think you will need to add a PCMCIA video card.

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Hi
From my knowledge the VGA port can be used only in connection with an external monitor/LCD but not with the TV.
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However, I never connected the notebook to TV via VGA port so I can provide only some assumptions.
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