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Not directly photo related, but I'm guessing there's more knowledge here than in my head :)

We watch a lot of YouTube stuff for photo/hiking/camping/etc of an evening or weekend on the PC (Windows 10) monitor in the bedroom.

I have had to decorate..... :headbang: And we've moved the room about so the PC is no longer at the foot of the bed.

My thinking was a used TV, wall mounted at the foot of the bed, connected to the PC as a duplicate display as the monitor - just for in bed YT stuff.

I'm guessing as long as it has HDMI, I can get a splitter from the PC to feed both the monitor & TV simultaneously??

TIA :)
 
Just thinking out loud.......

Have you considered a "smart TV" and installing YouTube app on that TV

Or using an Amazon Fire stick to do the above.

On our lounge TV we have a Fire stick with the YouTube app on that. NB I was watching some YouTube videos this afternoon.

Our Samsung TV in the bedroom is "smart" and had the YouTube app.
 
LeeRatters said:
Not directly photo related, but I'm guessing there's more knowledge here than in my head :)

We watch a lot of YouTube stuff for photo/hiking/camping/etc of an evening or weekend on the PC (Windows 10) monitor in the bedroom.

I have had to decorate..... :headbang: And we've moved the room about so the PC is no longer at the foot of the bed.

My thinking was a used TV, wall mounted at the foot of the bed, connected to the PC as a duplicate display as the monitor - just for in bed YT stuff.

I'm guessing as long as it has HDMI, I can get a splitter from the PC to feed both the monitor & TV simultaneously??

TIA :)
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No reason why it shouldn't work. It's probably less power hungry to simply watch on a Smart TV directly via an app, but the downside to this is not being able to block adverts on certain makes. You might be able to on a Sony TV if it uses Android, I'm not sure about this.
 
I use a 50" 4K TV as a monitor on the machine I use when remoting in to the office from home. So much cheaper than a 50" 4K monitor. Only problem is the viewing angle in the corners for reading text. When I was using 4x22" monitors I could point them toward me to reduce that.
 
onomatopoeia said:
I use a 50" 4K TV as a monitor on the machine I use when remoting in to the office from home. So much cheaper than a 50" 4K monitor. Only problem is the viewing angle in the corners for reading text. When I was using 4x22" monitors I could point them toward me to reduce that.
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This is why I ended up moving to curved monitors, especially for large spreadsheets with small font numbers at the extremities. Took a while to get used to editing on a curved monitor though! lol
 
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