How to use a laptop screen as just a screen?

How to use laptop screen to display tv?

  • i have an s video out on my acer aspire 5920 laptop and have successfully hooked my computer to several different TVs no problem now i am wondering if i can reverse this process and use my laptop screen and the s video port to hook my TV and or Xbox 360 with which i have s video cords for both into my laptop screen? please any suggestions will help

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    HI, usually this cannot be done because the S-Video port on your laptop is an output device. To display TV on your laptop you would need a TV tuner card (USB) plugged in or a video capture card to which you could connect your TV.

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on my laptop you can get TV by plugging a special Ariel in to the usb port then if you have windows vista go to the media player

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