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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: Simplexity on July 29, 2013, 01:22:00 PM

Title: Splitting a Television Screen into 2 Displays (from 2 sources)
Post by: Simplexity on July 29, 2013, 01:22:00 PM

Me and my friends are having somewhat of a small gaming party this weekend, but there are four of us and only two laptops. I was wondering if there was a way to hook up both of our laptops to the television for the other two to see what is going on on both screens without much effort. This is a fairly wacky question and I don't think this can work, but you never know.

Title: Re: Splitting a Television Screen into 2 Displays (from 2 sources)
Post by: Ghaznavid on July 29, 2013, 02:05:51 PM

Not really clear on what you are trying to do, but it sounds like you are trying to get 2 differing displays out of 1 computer?

It is possible to have 2 monitors (with great difficulty - as I am currently finding), but you won't be able to do something like multiplayer gaming on 1 computer with 2 players using 2 monitors.

But hey, there's always a deck of cards - or everyone's favourite, monopoly...

Title: Re: Splitting a Television Screen into 2 Displays (from 2 sources)
Post by: reddevilggg on July 29, 2013, 03:22:05 PM

The simple answer is NO, you can not have two laptops going into 1 TV with a split screen.