Connecting to a laptop screen

dave oc

Im wondering is it possible to connect the xbox to a laptop or more importantly the xbox 360 to use the screen for the xbox? Might be a simple yes or no but and help would be great,

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Tom Dunne

No.

Can't get much simpler than that.:D

Karoma

On very few laptops-perhaps- with the added expense of additional hardware (D.Station..) [or hacking the xbox/changing OS and running...just say NO!)- you'd be much better off to just buy a portable TV:)
Short answer is, again,no.

fatherdougalmag

You could buy a USB TV tuner for your laptop and pipe the XBox TV out into the tuner.

Tom Dunne

If you don't mind a 1 second delay. Not much use for playing games.

Salmon

Sorry, gonna hijack this thread for a sec! Is it possible to connect a PC to a laptop screen? I have a laptop and was thinking of buying a gaming PC Coz I dont think i can upgrade my laptop Gfx card. I dont want the extra expense of buying a monitor for my gaming pc so could i connect it to the laptop?

sector

nope, not any way I know of anyway. You see the laptop will only have outputs, either normal vga and/or svideo so it's just not designed that way & I don't think there is any special cable that will change that.

ressem

Salmon wrote:

Sorry, gonna hijack this thread for a sec! Is it possible to connect a PC to a laptop screen? I have a laptop and was thinking of buying a gaming PC Coz I dont think i can upgrade my laptop Gfx card. I dont want the extra expense of buying a monitor for my gaming pc so could i connect it to the laptop?

If you intend to write off the laptop it's possible but costly.
Cheaper and more convenient to get a CRT monitor. 10 x 15" going for free on the for sale board for example.

Salmon

Thanks for the advice!!

Capt'n Midnight

ressem wrote:

If you intend to write off the laptop it's possible but costly.
Cheaper and more convenient to get a CRT monitor. 10 x 15" going for free on the for sale board for example.

just like to point out that even if you accept that the laptop has to be written off, it's not as simple as that and depending on your technical level may not even be possibe.

Sounds like an interesting mod for an Xbox - if you could get some device to send info from the rendering engine or something to the laptop video card..

Capt'n Midnight

ressem wrote:

If you intend to write off the laptop it's possible but costly.
Cheaper and more convenient to get a CRT monitor. 10 x 15" going for free on the for sale board for example.

just like to point out that even if you accept that the laptop has to be written off, it's not as simple as that and depending on your technical level may not even be possibe.

Sounds like an interesting mod for an Xbox - if you could get some device to send info from the rendering engine or something to the laptop video card..