How to use laptop screen as PS3 display optimally

bennylava

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Hi all, long story short I am trying to turn my laptop screen into a display for my ps3.

I have done some research and have tried some solutions but they all have some sort of drawbacks that make them undesirable.

My laptop does not have a HDMI in port so I understand that to do this I will need a TV tuner or a capture card. I have tried two capture cards. One's EasyCap which is a very cheap card, I was able to get the games to display on my laptop with no problem, but the card was not producing HD images. I have tried another more expensive card, the elgato game capture HD. This card, with its own software, was able to produce HD images but the image on my laptop screen has a big delay from what would be on a TV, and easyCap did not have this said delay.

I was wondering if it would be at all possible to have a HD image, while not having the delay? I am not really concerned with actually capturing/recording/livestreaming the footage, for now I am just trying to use the laptop screen as a display for the ps3 without hurting the quality of the image.

Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance!
 
Are these cards USB 2.0? If so there may just not be enough bandwidth to handle what you want without delay at least not for gaming. For just watching TV even if there was a delay as long as the audio was in sync it would not be evident. Also even though you are not recording to encode and display the video audio is going to use CPU time and may be taxing the laptop CPU to much. I can't say for sure since you did not list any of the hardware you are using.