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Can I use My Laptop as a Monitor? Please Help
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So my TV is broke, it just stopped working properly. And being the gamer I am, I'd still like to play my XBone. I know you can't connect it directly with the HDMI cable, that's pretty obvious, but I know people that play on their laptop. I know you need extra components to be able to do it properly. So if you guys could give me a list or something of what I need and how to do it that would be awesome.

Thank you.
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Misread topic disregard everything I said


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I've never seen a laptop with a video input connector for the display. Laptop screens generally ONLY use a proprietary connection to the GPU on the motherboard. You can make these panels take inputs like HDMI, but it requires extra hardware that may not exist for your panel.

You would have to use a capture device to show video from an external source
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r00t wrote I've never seen a laptop with a video input connector for the display. Laptop screens generally ONLY use a proprietary connection to the GPU on the motherboard. You can make these panels take inputs like HDMI, but it requires extra hardware that may not exist for your panel.

You would have to use a capture device to show video from an external source

There would be a lag? surely;)
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you need a capture card to run the console cause a laptop or any pc does not have hdmi input only output as long as you have a decent laptop should be fine with the aver media or elgoto
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r00t wrote I've never seen a laptop with a video input connector for the display. Laptop screens generally ONLY use a proprietary connection to the GPU on the motherboard. You can make these panels take inputs like HDMI, but it requires extra hardware that may not exist for your panel.

You would have to use a capture device to show video from an external source


I can confirm this. I've tried just straight connecting to my laptop with an hdmi and it doesn't work :/
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how did your tv stop working
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