1. Easiest way. Buy a Dvd player.
But if you must It all depends on your grahics card and its outputs.
2. Most laptops have an output usually a 15 pin vga. All you need is vga compatible tv.
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all DVD players have a component that is programmed to read a certain list of disk types. there are many different types of components and yours probably reads the DVD+r instead of DVD-r. which it...
