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lb969:
Get a PCMCIA TV tuner card and a cheap VCR?

Laptops can play TV on the LCD through a TV Tuner card. Hook up a VCR to it and you can use the VCR's inputs or Coax for the Wii and output to the tuner card. Not sure if the Wii used a coax RF adaptor or component jacks. I don't own one. (if it does use coax, you may just need the tuner card.

McTaggart:
It uses rgb components or the normal red/white/yellow sound/sound/video rca plugs.

Thanks though. Two weeks sans uni means I should easily have the cance to get it done.

lb969:
in theory, you need to hook up the VCR to the laptop via a PCMCIA Tuner card. Then you can use the VCR's Input jacks to convert the RCA/Component to a coax signal for the Tuner card.

However I haven't done this with a laptop. I've used it to hook up a Playstation to my desktop though.

I'm not sure, but you may see some lag in gameplay since the laptop/tuner combo may take some time to digitize the signal and then display it on the laptop, depending on the speed of the processor. And don't expect lightning framerates.

I Am Not Amused:
Um, maybe I'm an idiot and don't understand the situation correctly.

But couldn't you just use a VCR? They typically have the red/white/yellow plugins necessary to plug into and all you need to do is turn on the VCR and play through that. I've done it with my PS2 before and it works perfectly.

McTaggart:
I don't have a vcr, nor a tv. I don't really have space in my room for a tv and don't have the money for a flat panel.

Things I have to work with: a laptop, a wii, cables. By now I'm pretty sure that it'll work with just pcmcia tuner card if I can find one that takes the yellow rca plug as an input.

(I'm not too concerned about the performance as my laptop is pretty damn shiny).

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