If I but a monitor for my Mac Mini and the monitor has HDMI in, can the monitor double as a second TV during football season?

My plan would be to hook my wireless DirecTV mini client to it and use it to watch two games at once.

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Posted by Tigeralum2008

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Posted on 8/11/16 at 10:20 am to AlbertMeansWell

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If I but a monitor for my Mac Mini and the monitor has HDMI in, can the monitor double as a second TV during football season?

My plan would be to hook my wireless DirecTV mini client to it and use it to watch two games at once.

I would say yes it can serve as a second TV.

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Posted by jcole4lsu

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Posted on 8/11/16 at 10:24 am to AlbertMeansWell

sure. a tv attached to a cable box/receiver of some sort is really just a monitor

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Posted by junkfunky

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Posted on 8/11/16 at 10:30 am to AlbertMeansWell

Yep and if you really need your fix you can plug your tv into the mac, fire up ESPN and watch 4 games on the TV and one on the mac at the same time.

MOAR FOOBALL!!!!!

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Posted by CubsFanBudMan

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Posted on 8/11/16 at 11:08 am to AlbertMeansWell

Only thing you would need to consider is sound. You would either need a monitor with built in speakers or some other sort of powered speaker solution.

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Posted by gjackx

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Posted on 8/11/16 at 11:53 am to CubsFanBudMan

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Only thing you would need to consider is sound. You would either need a monitor with built in speakers or some other sort of powered speaker solution.

I recently did this. You can use something of this nature for sound (to run to a stereo): HDMI Audio splitter

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