Can you hook up a computer to a tv without a s-video cable?

So I have a cable to hook up my laptop to the tv and whatever is on the laptop screen will be on the tv screen, but you don't hear any of the sound that should be playing on the computer, through the tv, I have to hook up an amp to hear. So i bought...

i hooked up my computer through windows 7 media center with my xbox elite but that is not what i want done i want to be able to look at my internet on my tv and my symphonic lcd hdtv does not have an hdmi cable port but my computer and my hd dvr (83...

i have an svideo cable and when i plug it in to the tv and computer and go to the video setting (video3) it does not come on. what else do i need to do to get it on my tv?

I'm moving to a new apartment, and I really don't want to spend hundreds of dollars on a tv if I can just use my computer, since my monitor is 22". But I don't know much about tv tuners. I'm having HD cable and internet installed in a couple days...

Alright so i have an s-video port in my nvidia 8600 card and id like to hook it up to my older tv as an extra monitor. i have my amp hooked up to the vcr and into the tv, then i have ...show more

I get both high speed internet and cable tv from the same company. Are there special filters involved that prevent me from moving my tv to the cable plug my pc was on??