I had my laptop connected wirelessly as an extended display monitor. HOwever, it was quite laggy. I now have the laptops hooked up via HDMI cable, but they are not regonizing one another? I went to display and clicked "Detect" but it fails to detech. Is there a certain setting I need to change? When I hook up my laptop to the TV via HDMI, it detects immediately, with no change in settings.
Why not just use a real HDMI monitor? They're quite inexpensive and will certainly have the response time you seek. You'll never get the same response time linking two laptops.
Linking the two laptops would be faster if both were wired to the router with gigabit connections. Still probably not like a real monitor, but maybe usable.
SO I understand, there is no way to link my other laptop as an external display with an HDMI cable? I thought by having a wired connection instead of connecting the displays wirelessly, it would be much faster. WHen I connect to my TV via HDMI cable, it is perfectly responsive. Since I already have the laptop, I'd rather not buy another monitor, if possible to avoid and get the same result. If not an HDMI cable, perhaps a hub to connect the displays?
That is because the TV has one or more HDMI inputs that can accept incoming video and display it on the screen. The TV has hardware specifically designed to do just that. As others have said, most modern laptop computers have an HDMI output that can send video to a device that receives it. A totally different set of hardware is needed to accept incoming video as compared to sending video. You can't just simply reprogram an HDMI output with software to make it work as an input. The same applies to HDMI outputs on a dock.
If you had successfully tested an HDMI connection from the source laptop to a TV with an HDMI input, that same HDMI cable connection will work with a monitor with an HDMI input. If the monitor you choose does not have an HDMI input, you will need some type of adapter cable or video converter to go from HDMI to whatever kind of input the monitor uses.
I'm not sure I'm understanding the question correctly. Nothing was connected in order to project my laptop display onto the other laptop. I simply projected my extended screen on there. The problem is it is not responsive, and it difficult to quickly input and export data from there.
OK, so you were going from one laptop to another. So you may need to purchase a cable if the monitor does not come with one. There are adapters/cables that will change from HDMI to whatever you may need on the monitor if that did not have HDMI also.
Correct, projecting it to the other desktop over the network incurs all sorts of delays. Probably not an issue for a support person, but if you want to use it as a second monitor, it would be super annoying!
It would depend upon if the monitor had built-in speakers and if they could play audio coming through the HDMI port. Beyond that, the Windows sound control panels would have settings to determine if the laptop's speakers are used or if audio goes to the HDMI port.
If I connect my ASUS VE228H monitor up to my laptop using an HDMI cable I can select the audio output to go to it instead of the laptop's speakers. However, I don't use that option very often for two reasons: 1) the audio quality is poor and 2) the volume is low for the monitor's speakers.
Related issue with this. When I do wireless connect my laptop to extended dispkay to my other laptop, most of the time the audio comes from the extended laptop. However, sometimes there is no audio at all. What is the cause and fix for this?
Following up with this - Why when I am wireless projecting one laptop to the other, the sound doesn't work? This is a thing that sometimes the sounds does work, but lately it has not been. How do I fix this?
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