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can i connect my laptop to my receiver to watch movies.receiver controls all ie.blu ray dvd sky box if so is all i need an hdmi cable or will i need audio cables.
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There were two laptops so far that accept HDMI input. For others you must have USB 3.0 and a box from these folk.
http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/intensity/
That's 200 bucks and we're just getting started.
Are you sure you want to go down such an expensive path?
Bob
HOWEVER you should discover a BD PLAYER will be less fiddly. I strongly suggest you get one.
thank you for reply have a bd player but cant download movies to it.unless you know of one
When I connect my laptop, it's with HDMI cable to the receiver and the receiver does the audio and passes the video up to the HDTV. The thing about this is that it's very fiddly. I have to change my display settings in Windows to extend the desktop, make the external HDTV the primary display and WHAT A MESS!
No step by step because it varied with my 3 test laptops. One had Nvidia, the next ATI and the last was Intel (display chips.)
Not one system required the same steps to make it all work. This is why I wonder if this is too much for most owners.
Bob
Does your laptop accept "input" from the receiver? I ask, because laptops tend to "output" unless they have some adapter to accept input. I'm not getting the idea of what you have . Plus, on some setups it will only play on the immediate player that's part of the package you got from whatever. In order words, it won't distribute the signal just anywhere. So details matter because there so many variables. You may want to check your band source how they expect you to connect this or that.
tada -----Willy 
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