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McTaggart:
I really want to move my wii out of the family room and into my room so I can play it a little more. I can't find any screen that take aything other than dvi and those crt inputs and can't afford a good tv at all. Projectors are even further out of my pricerange.

So the last option I can think of is using my laptop screen as the screen for my wii. The problem is that the laptop doesn't have any video in at all, but it has buckets of usb slots and 2 pcmcia slots. I doubt the usb will be any good here but I know you can get pcmcia video capture cards. My question is can you use a capture card to just show the video on the screen at it's full resolution or will it just show it at the resolution it'll record at?

Scytale:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/23/how-to-make-a-wii-laptop-part-1/

looks like a horrible hack and will void your waranty but have fun...

McTaggart:
I saw that on hackaday a while ago. It's got nothing to do with what I'm trying to do though. I just want to use my laptop to fill the role the tv normally plays.

Scytale:
Card with TV-out is probably all you'll need then, don't own a WII so no idea what conncetor it uses to hook up to a screen.

My Macbook came with a DVI to S-video adapter, so I can hook it up to my flatmates amplifier and hence the TV, resoloution is horrible though... No idea if any of that will help though.

McTaggart:
I can get my laptop to use the tv as a screen easily enough. What I want is for the wii out to show on my laptop monitor. I know I need video in, but I'm wondering if I'll be able to view it fullscreen with little to no quality loss.

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