Anyone know about HDMI and computers (an odd question)?

[Shawn]

I'm getting a 360 Elite next week (it's en route to my house). Which means it has an HDMI cord packaged with it.

My notebook has an HDMI input. If I connected the cord to it, would it output on the screen? And if so, would there be any way for me to take screen captures, or is it "disconnected" from the OS while it's doing that?

[Craymel]

I don't understand the question I could give you the answer if I did. Ummm are you asking if you can connect your pc to your 360 via hdmi? If that is what you're asking then the answer is no. Both the 360 and the pc are sending the video out via hdmi not in. If you connect them like that nothing will happen.

[pedrocasilva]

I'm getting a 360 Elite next week (it's en route to my house). Which means it has an HDMI cord packaged with it.

My notebook has an HDMI input. If I connected the cord to it, would it output on the screen? And if so, would there be any way for me to take screen captures, or is it "disconnected" from the OS while it's doing that?

no, your laptop would have to have ViVo capabilities (Video-in/Video-out) which are rare even on high end desktop computers/graphics card. So realistically there's no way to "plug and play" your X360 to your laptop and actually get image out of it as it is certainly only a Video-In one.

You're gonna have to settle with either a USB video adapter/capture or with a pcmcia/express card who does video capture, both kinda expensive and both mild prone to some lag (specially in FPS's/fighters and action games); not to mention I don't know if is there expresscards capable of capturing HD resolutions in real-time already.

[Kajitani-Eizan]

alternately, if you have an external monitor and don't care about taking screenshots, you can hook it up to that, i believe.

[Infoseeker]

As said above you'd need a capture card; and especially the USB ones will lag.

Also another note; if you use a HDMI-to-DVI adapter you can connect it to TVs/moniters/projectors that have a DVI input.

[bungiefan]

I'm getting a 360 Elite next week (it's en route to my house). Which means it has an HDMI cord packaged with it.

My notebook has an HDMI input. If I connected the cord to it, would it output on the screen? And if so, would there be any way for me to take screen captures, or is it "disconnected" from the OS while it's doing that?

Odds are it's actually an HDMI output, so you can use an HDTV as a monitor for presentations. TV input is rare to have built into a computer when you buy it, you usually have to add it later. If it is an input, the machine will come with software to display the signal on the screen in a window or  as fullscreen, which will allow you to take screenshots.

[Infoseeker]

I assumed the input was a typo.
Yeah so it is an ouput as you say. There are no graphics cards out there with an HDMI input.

[bungiefan]

I assumed the input was a typo.
Yeah so it is an ouput as you say. There are no graphics cards out there with an HDMI input.

Actually, there are. At work we occasionally sell an Elite HP desktop computer with HDTV recording ability via coaxial, component, and HDMI, since the computer is built to be a DVR. I just haven't seen any laptops that come with such a thing.

[Infoseeker]

really? there is Kevassa's video-capturing recording solution right there! Well if those inputs allow him oto carry it over to an output, and not just record it.