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    Playing a Xbox 360 over the Laptop's display??

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Kingcodez, Nov 11, 2008.

  1. Kingcodez

    Kingcodez Notebook Consultant

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    Is this at all possible?
    I'm more than likely going to buy a Lenovo X200t, and get all the upgrades for it.
    However I'm going to be in college most of the time and decided to sell my Plasma Screen to help finance this computer. Is there any way to stream or whatvever the Component or even HDMI signal from the Xbox to the laptop's screen? Maby like a HDMI TV Tuner USB card or something?
    The $800+ $200 from my TV and Xbox mean a 360 Elite and a 128GB SSD :D Or even an Intel SSD lol
     
  2. ArmageddonAsh

    ArmageddonAsh Mangekyo Sharingan

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    its possible but the laptop has to have a TV tuner but its not recommended - from what i have seem it stutters alot and theres a lot of delay
     
  3. whizzo

    whizzo Notebook Prophet

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    what he said. not worth it imho.
     
  4. Wolfpup

    Wolfpup Notebook Prophet

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    Yeah, practically speaking the answer is "no". It's going to be in SD, look terrible, and have some lag.
     
  5. jjgoo

    jjgoo Notebook Deity

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    no not worth it, the game will play much better on a 47 inch 1080, ;)
     
  6. Wolfpup

    Wolfpup Notebook Prophet

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    Well it would work fine if it were possible, laptop screens are certainly more than high enough resolution. But there's no real way to connect it.
     
  7. ArmageddonAsh

    ArmageddonAsh Mangekyo Sharingan

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    if your computer had HDMI then couldnt you just use a HDMI cable?
     
  8. Aeris

    Aeris Otherworldly

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    Only if the laptop had a HDMI-In socket, but most laptops only have a HDMI-Out socket.
     
  9. ArmageddonAsh

    ArmageddonAsh Mangekyo Sharingan

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    how can you find out if the laptop has a HDMI-in socket?
    i didnt know there wre different versions required
     
  10. Wolfpup

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    It doesn't. I've never heard of anything like that on a laptop.

    There's no real way to connect a modern game system to a laptop. Which is really too bad, because there are all sort of nifty reasons to want to do so :D
     
  11. ArmageddonAsh

    ArmageddonAsh Mangekyo Sharingan

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    what about DVI? most laptops have that - is it the same as HDMI in that it needs to be a specific version?
     
  12. Wolfpup

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    Those are all outputs. You can't hook up a game system to them.
     
  13. ArmageddonAsh

    ArmageddonAsh Mangekyo Sharingan

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    okay thanx for the info
     
  14. Wolfpup

    Wolfpup Notebook Prophet

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    Would be handy if laptops had a direct passthrough to the screen though, for game systems and what not :D

    I've brought my 360 places it shouldn't be :D