XBOX 360 action on Aviator EX7?

I don't even think the TV tuner has a DVI in, but it did have an RCA (if I remember correctly) as well as coax. It has been awhile since I seen it.

I may be out of things too much - but I can't see how plugging a video cable into a serial port can help. A serial port and a video receptacle (DVI, VGA, S-VIDEO) are designed to receive specific input. Even if the XBOX is designed to send the video over this cable - there can't be a way the serial port sees this and displays it on your computer - again, unless I am completely out of it.

Now... maybe the cable they are talking about plugs into your normal VGA port. On the EX7 - you get a DVI to VGA connector. The connector looks like a serial port, however, the serial port uses 9 pins (we won't talk about the 25 pin since no-one really uses those these days) and the VGA uses 15 pins. For a novice (sometimes, you can find them in console stores), the interface looks the same and when looking at the back of the computer, the closest thing resembling the VGA is the serial port.

However - once again, I do not believe that it will work. They may be talking about using a real VGA port - and in that case, we are talking about using the DVI to VGA adaptor.

That all said - then the issue becomes - does the VGA port allow incoming signal to be displayed on the LCD. The VGA port is an output port - not an input port. So my answer for this would be no as well.

I believe there are two real solutions for you. The first is getting the tv tuner built into the machine. The second is purchasing a USB tv tuner. Both of these would have appropriate inputs for your signals from the XBOX to work.

I need to stop talking. My head is starting to hurt thinking about this.

Good luck... now I am going to take an asprin.

I was just kidding about my headache, but no problem with the help. That's the whole point of the forums.

Yes, there are several USB tuners out there. A popular one that I know about is from Hauppauge:

http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/produ...a_pvrusb2.html

This is USB 2.0 which is the only way to go. You can check local computer shops as well for them, but I know a lot of people who swear by this.

Hope it works and if so, come back and post about it for others. There is always going to be someone who is trying this out. Our notebooks must be able to do everything - that is why we spend all that money on them.

tv tuner wont work for anything but recording. theres going to be a slight lag and it will completely mess you up if your trying to play.

^ i disagree with that statement.

I have the internal TV Tuner in my FX-7. I had to the the standard RCA (Video, L/R Audio) connectors from the X-Box 360 pluged them into a simple RF modulator (Available at Walmart or Radio Shack) and then into the CATV port on the FX-7. There was very little lag-time. My problem was the video quality of a CATV signal meant for ~420 pixels being stetched onto a 17" LCD display. Was not the cleanest. Currently I am not aware of any Component or DVI input TV-Tuners, just CATV with HDTV (open air) support.

Easy test:
Split your CATV signal so that 1 line goes to your TV and one goes to you TV-Tuner. Place both the TV and the Tuner video to Channel 3/4 and see if there is any lag from the TV to the Laptop. It is most noticable in the Audio.