What kind of video card and/or processor requirements does a laptop need to watch movies on a TV?

I'm thinking of purchasing a laptop and I want to hook it up to my 32" LCD TV to watch movies (things I record, or things I stream from Netflix).



Will the video card of the laptop matter that much? Will standard equipment on a new laptop be good enough? Or will I need to look for a laptop with a higher-end video card, with lots of video memory?



Or is the main processor more important for this task? How fast should it be?|||u can connect the TV's input cable to the laptop if that port is available and redirect the screen output using one of the function buttons depending on ur laptip make and model it varies,,, ur memory and all that really dont matter and ur video card dont matter neither ur just redirecting screen output as long as the format is the same,, IE NTSC to NTSC not NTSC to HDTV|||Use a VGA to DVI cable|||This is all you need

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/…|||I would use a very high quality card, and an S-Video output port on your computer. It is generally black. If your TV doesn't have an S-Video input port, than you can buy a modulator box that has DVD ports, S-Video, and much more on the bigger more expensive ones. An Intel Pentium 4 processor would work well with video streaming and viewing. A far as I know, recording from your TV is impassible.