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it recently clicked in my head that i have a spare tv that i could put at the end of my bed and lay in bed to watch netflix etc, i was going to use my pc (which would be about 3m away from the tv lol) with a giant hdmi cord i have to just connect it to my pc and go on about using it essentially as another monitor. problem though, my 1070 only has 1 HDMI port which is being used already; without buying more shit is there an easy solution to this? any way that i could plug the HDMI from the tv into my mobo instead of the gpu (running a 7600K so it has an IGPU) and it get it to work that way since i don't actually need great gpu performance to output netflix and youtube?

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You could use a splitter or switch. Its what I do for my consoles to my capture card. 

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4 minutes ago, zephyr_ said:

to output netflix and youtube?

chromecast (ultra for 4k), requires same wifi network

there is slight delay , but doesnt matter if you are just watching video 

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Which imputs does the monitor have?

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6 minutes ago, zephyr_ said:

it recently clicked in my head that i have a spare tv that i could put at the end of my bed and lay in bed to watch netflix etc, i was going to use my pc (which would be about 3m away from the tv lol) with a giant hdmi cord i have to just connect it to my pc and go on about using it essentially as another monitor. problem though, my 1070 only has 1 HDMI port which is being used already; without buying more shit is there an easy solution to this? any way that i could plug the HDMI from the tv into my mobo instead of the gpu (running a 7600K so it has an IGPU) and it get it to work that way since i don't actually need great gpu performance to output netflix and youtube?

 

There are both manual and auto-switches that exist. Just keep in mind that you can't exceed the cable length and can't switch types (eg HDMI 1.0 and 1.4) as it will only operate at the lowest rated cable.

 

Splitters/duplicators exist, but they will typically not pass the copy protection (HDCP/Macrovision) over the cable. There are splitters designed for capturing video from HDCP devices, and they work by piggybacking the HDCP signal from the monitor. So keep that in mind, that a SPLITTER will only send ONE HDCP handshake, so if you turn off the device that does the handshake, the entire thing will stop. 

 

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I know this pain. I have only one HDMI on my TV. This is why I bought a chromecast.

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DP to HDMI cables exist /adapters too.  https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-DisplayPort-Display-Adapter-Cable/dp/B015OV4Z0A

 

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after a lot of messing around i got it to work with my monitor running from my GPU and the tv from my IGPU; i went to bios and in chipset i found some setting called "internal graphics" which was set to "disabled" (gigabyte bios), turned it on and ran the HDMI from the tv to my motherboard and it restarted my pc. then pressed the windows key and p at the same time and pressed duplicate. 

 

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