xbox 360 to my g73 screen?

Is it possible to show the video on my g73 screen from my xbox 360? Since I don't have an HD television, I was hoping I could buy maybe an hdmi wire or something and connect from my 360 to my laptop.

Is this possible? If so, where could I buy it online?

sry, but I'm a complete noob when it comes to these newer stuff as I've never had the pleasure of viewing an HD screen before other then my laptop (and my school).

edit - If there isn't a way for me to play the 360 on my laptop screen, can someone recommend a good led tv screen for me? Something around 120hz and either 720p or 1080p with one hdmi is fine, sd inputs or whatever, or perhaps I don't need 120hz?? Maybe $500 or lower.

 

Nope 10char.

 

Its possible just not directly.

You need a capture device.

Probably the best one to do this would be a HAVA since it uses the LAN port and not USB its practically lag free and it supports WMC as well.

The idea of buying a capture device to do this is pretty undesirable unless you plan to capture with it as well (youtube videos and stuff) or have no choice (military moving often cant carry a big TV around)

Otherwise getting a nice TV or Monitor is probably the best thing to do.

 

Vicious, could you link me to all the info? I would be willing to buy a capture card and i definately would want to capture the video..
would there beany fps issues or input lag or sound or video problems or any quality issues with this method? Thanks in advance.

What all accesories would i need? I have an xbox, an hdmi cable, and the g73, but unfortunately this screen is only output.

 

To my knowledge the HAVA is virtually lag free, it does the hardware compression for you so your own computer has to do no work unlike capture cards that go into your computer.

The downside to the HAVA is that while it accepts HD input it only records SD, as long as the display is HD though you could work around that with a screen capture program.

Anyways it has lots of neat features, its main function is a place-shift device.

Like watch your cable TV on your computer when your on vacation on a trip because it can stream anything going into it over the internet and control your cable box via software from a remote location.

I had planned to get one but never did, so I can personally say I know its lag free.

For capture and capture only not live play the device I am most instersted in now is the hauppauge pvr.

Its very expensive though and not suited for live play, however it has pass-through so you can record on your computer while you play on your TV.

Read up on the HAVA by googling about and here is there homesite.

Monsoon Multimedia Vulkano - Your TV anywhere on iPhone/iPad

Edit: wow its not even HAVA anymore, looks like a line of new devices called the Vulkano probably does the same thing though.

 

do i need a tv too? i live at the university campus and i have no tv in my room.
so if i buy the hava, i can connect the xbox to the laptop and play on the laptop screen , and could i also be able to play on xbox live?

i also heard of somethig called easycap, would that work good, and would that be lag free on live?

I found this,
do you think this will work or is he just assuming it will work?

How to Play XBox on a Laptop Screen | eHow.com

 

Ownageful, that sounds interesting. I would Love to try it but I would need a vga cable first. Can someone give this a shot?

 

I doubt that will work, thats a VGA output on your laptop not a dual input/output. If this was not the case I think we would have all known about it a long time ago and been recommending vga adapters to people.

My guess is that person had a laptop that did have dual function VGA or just decided to mess with people and put fake info up.

Nope HAVA works with no TV, but again looks like that product is no longer in production, you should look up info on the new one and see if it still does all the neat things the HAVA did.

If you do have a TV and just want to be able to record the PVR I mentioned is probably the new defacto standard in console game capture.

 

Maybe this work too: VGA input for laptop (to able to use it as a monitor) - CNET Miscellaneous laptop discussions Forums

"My Reason: I've got a headless PC that only has a VGA output and I don't have a monitor for it and didn't want to buy a VGA monitor since it runs linux and I don't need a monitor most of the time (only when something goes wrong and it drops off the network).

My Solution: I purchased a VGA to AV (VGA TO Video/SVIDEO) signal convertor and an EZCAP SNAPSHOT USB 2.0 Video capture device (found them on Amazon from a company called ClimaxDigital). My VGA output from the linux PC connects to the VGA input on the signal convertor and the svideo output from the signal convertor connects to the svideo input on the EZCAP SNAPSHOT. I then plugged the EZCAP into my laptop USB port (after installing the drivers for it) and used VirtualDub to show the VGA output from my linux box (also had to set the Device to "USB 2861" and set the video source to "Video SVideo" in VirtualDub). Voila! - I can now use my laptop as a VGA monitor for any PC that doesn't have one and I can easily carry these two devices in my laptop bag for use on customer sites etc to work on servers with no monitors."

 

well, since I don't want to use capture, sounds like its best for me to save up for a good TV. any suggestions lower then $500 (or as little and good as possible)?

eidt - it doesn't need to be 1080p though it would be nice. Just need HD and it needs to look good. one hdmi is fine. just enough to play my 360 basically without squinting just to read txt...

 

I was just trolling around and stumbled upon this post. The new m17x R3 has an HDMI in... I guess I now know why its useful.

I am with what the others say and just suggest you pick up a used TV/Monitor that has HDMI inputs. I have played my xbox on a 17 monitor before and it was not too terrible bad.

You might want to check pawn shops. They usually dont know too much about monitors and usually price all the smaller screens in the same price range. To them a 15-17 monitor's are all the same. If you know what to look for (HDMI) then you can often find a bargain.

 

sounds like a plan

 

To be honest you need a decent LCD Monitor like this - Newegg.com - ASUS VW266H Black 25.5" 2ms(GTG) HDMI Widescreen LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 1000:1 (ASCR 20000:1) Built in Speakers w/ component connector

Built in HDMI input
Built in TV Tuner


That way you can have a slick external monitor + watch TV if you want.

 

Damn, I had no idea asus made tv monitors xD I'll keep this one in mind as well. thx

 

Maybe I miss it... but I can't find the TV tuner on the specs of this Monitor.

 

You are correct. Sorry I got component and coax mixed up there.

Good news is that it does have component in so a cable box can be hooked up to it if you want

Newegg review of two of my favorite products.
YouTube - Newegg TV: Gifts for Grads - ASUS G73 Gaming Notebook and VW266H 25.5" LCD Monitor

 

no tv tuner? does thats basically means nothing to watch off the bat right? Well, since I never ever use my tv other then play games, I guess it wouldn't matter for me.

edit -o wait, a tv tuner is the red, yellow, and white colored thingies right? I take it back if thats the case. Yea, I said thingies.... wow, I know nothing about tvs/monitors xD

 

No no no

A TV tuner is the thingie built-in to TVs that lets you switch channels from a raw TV input feed (cable/antenna/etc.). It's the difference between a "TV" and a "monitor".

 

To clarify a bit for you let me explain (I'll try to simplify it for you)

Yellow White and Red cables are often known as RCA cables or composite connector. This is a rather old analog connection interface first found on VCR's and early TV's. This is what you are referring to. Yellow transmits video and white and red are the audio signals.

The LCD monitor I mentioned above has input of Component video cables. These have three signals for video and two for audio (producing a higher quality signal). So you can take a cable box that supports Component and hook it up to this monitor, and then select Component as the input to watch tv on your monitor.



Hope that makes sense.

 

I get it. Gash, I feel Like a noob >///<

thanks for your help