Play Xbox through laptop?

What is the likelyhood of my xbox being able to play through my laptop? It has a HDMI port on the side of it, so it can connect. But is it as simple as that? Appreciate any advice.

I'm not fussed about online play BTW, I'd be quite happy with just offline. I literally just want to use the laptop as a screen instead of a TV.

if you want to play through your laptop screen you have to purchase the xbox vga cable, theres a step by step setup on xbox.com i just can't find the link at the moment.

I sometime hook my 360 up to my computer monitor as it was bought as a seperate piece with this capability stated on internet sites, i am not sure whether it will work on laptop but you can try it. What harm can it do? ;)

The HDMI port is likely an HDMI-out port.I have one on my laptop as well and it doesn't work.....or I'm doing something wrong

The HDMI port is likely an HDMI-out port.I have one on my laptop as well and it doesn't work.....or I'm doing something wrong

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Googled it and i found this youtube videomight be helpful