how to play xbox 360 on laptop screen?

ive been searching about how to play my xbox on the laptop screen and came across something called capture card. how do you use it? is that the only way to play it? is there a way to mesh the two hdmi output from my laptop and my xbox 360 and play it through that? any help would be appreciated, thank you!

 

A capture card may work but the performance will be sorely lacking as it will most likely lag a great deal. As for HDMI the only way that would work is if your laptop has an HDMI in which very few do.

 

Capture card would be nearly impossible due to the lag.

 

I've looked extensively for something like this. After about a year, I haven't found anything. I also wanted something that would let me use my monitor as an extra screen for my desktop with no luck (besides synergy and I don't count that).

 

There's probably a hardware solution for what you need, but don't expect it to be easy to find nor cheap in any sense of the word.

 

Buy a clevo X7200 or X8100, both have HDMI ins. Otherwise you stuck with a capture card that might create a whole lot of lag.

 

I'm surprised more laptops wouldn't start to incorporate that feature even if as an added cost. I see periodic requests for this and it would be nice just to plug in an HDMI device. To be honest if it does take off then it would most likely be a displayport input, although HDMI would be preferred.

Then they could make slim external Blu-Ray or DVD drives with HDMI input with USB power to play directly on the screen.

 

There are US$30 kits on ebay to allow HDMI input into a notebook LCD. Would mean some hacking of your notebook to get going.

OR there are USB framegrabbers to do it. USB 2.0's speed would mean plenty of lag though. USB 3.0 would be doable.

atm would be best to just get a cheap LCD to use separately with the xbox360.