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For Information On The Areas of HDMI:
On the back of the pc , there should be two (usually) HDMI slots. One of them are in the GPU, the other to the motherboard. For gaming or higher end tasks, use the one connected to the GPU, thus meaning that the GPU's graphics are being put into that monitor. The other monitor could be used for lower end tasks, such as doing work, or just searching things up. I believe the one connected to the motherboard uses the CPU, I may be wrong though.
Edit to answer your question,
There shouldn't be any issues, I use the same set-up as do countless others.
if it has hdmi only, its a tv
GPUs tend to have 3x DP & 1x HDMI.
Use all DP if possible.
If all you have are 2x HDMI based Displays, or they lack DP on them, you can buy an "active DP male to HDMI female adapter" and plug that into DP port on GPU and use HDMI male to male cable to connect an HDMI based Display.
Once they are connected and OS sees them, press WINKEY+P and select Extended Mode.
Then go into AMD or NVIDIA gpu control panel and configure each Display to have the correct native Screen Res + Refresh Rate.
Selecting Borderless Window Mode in your Games will allow you to have game full screen on one screen while still being able to see the others and thus the contents on them; such as Monitoring Software for CPU + GPU, Task Manager, Web Browser, Video Recording Software; etc.
hdmi switch is to use multiple sources on a single display (ex. xbox, psx, cable box, dvd/bd player, pc etc.. on a single tv)
However, with that having been said, I’d maybe consider getting a different monitor. It’s pretty easy to get a 100 hz adaptive sync compatible monitor for under $80, such as this Acer aopen 24SA2y[www.amazon.com], this M.S.I. 24MR400-B[www.bestbuy.com], or this L.G. 24MR400-B[www.bestbuy.com].
Moreover in the $200+ range you can start looking at 3440x1440 ultra-wides, starting with this 34 inch Zer-Lon inch 3440x1440p144 monitor[www.amazon.com]. That won't net you quite as much horizontal resolution as two 1920x1080 monitors, but it only falls a few hundred pixels short. Granted, I might recommend springing an extra $50 to get something from a recognizable brand name, but meh.
No. The key feature that makes a television a television is and always has been a television tuner. In the past they were also often lower resolution than the typical monitor and didn't support progressive scan, but that's not so much the case these days.
The only product I can think of that was labeled as a television without having a tuner is the Playstation T,V,, and that's more-so because consoles are associated with televisions rather than an accurate descriptor of what it is, although I suppose it is rare for monitors to have y/pb/pr inputs too.
Moreover, low end monitors are distinct from televisions in other ways. They're less likely to utilize chroma-subsampling compression, especially in the lower price brackets. Moreover, televisions are designed to watch, whereas monitors are meant for interaction, so monitors often have much better input latency than televisions. Televisions also usually have "smart T.V." features, whereas monitors are usually just dumb displays.
Besides all of that, D.V.I. isn't really anything special. D.V.I.-A is just the V.G.A. video signals, and like I said before D.V.I. D is the same video signal used as the basis as H.D.M.I.
Also, even if the monitor did have V.G.A., it wouldn't help much since geforce 10 series cards don't have direct V.G.A. outputs.
there was a time when tvs did not include a tuner
only having component, composite, and hdmi inputs
modern smart vs may not even have tuners, depending on hdmi or their smart apps
Why not just plug them into the Laptop directly?
You want to have 3x screens all displaying the same image? Why?
I could see someone needing such a switch for a Display that lacks inputs; and wanting to connect and switch between multiple devices to a Display. But to duplicate to multiple screens? IDK that just seems silly.