Can i connect two external screens to my laptop via hdmi, is that possible?
My laptop is not that old yet, about 1 year old from HP. I have already connected an external monitor via HDMI. Now I wonder, is it possible to connect two external screens to the laptop via additional hardware (hdmi dual splitter?).
I need 3 screens for work (i.e. 1x from the laptop itself and 2x externally)
You can usually only connect as many monitors as you have video connections! There's no kind of splinter!
There's no kind of splinter!
Yes, there's
If I haven't missed anything, it won't work.
One exit = one screen.
So if then via a different output or an additional USB graphics card or something.
Yes, but these "splitters" do not make 2x extra signals but only mirrors both!
Mostly there's HDMI and VGA, one connection is only for one monitor.
No you can also simply expand the view using 3 monitors
If your laptop has two HDMI outputs, you can also connect two monitors via HDMI.
On the other hand, if your laptop only has an HDMI output, you could check whether you have other monitor connections on the laptop instead, e.g.
https://de.wikipedia.org/...isplayPort, https://de.wikipedia.org/..._Interface or https://de.wikipedia.org/...-Anschluss.
For example, my laptop (not from HP and over 3 years old) has two DisplayPort and one HDMI output.
You could also see if your laptop supports delivering a video signal via USB-3, in which case you could connect another monitor.
now i wonder is it possible via additional hardware (hdmi dual splitter?)
A splitter only duplicates the signal and forwards it to the connected monitors so that you can see the identical picture on them.
Depends heavily on the notebook.
So there ARE notebooks that have two display ports that can be used simultaneously (e.g. VGA and HDMI). Not all notebooks can use the internal screen at the same time.
Sometimes you can also have two digital screen interfaces on the notebook (e.g. DisplayPort, sometimes mini-Displayport + HDMI). It is also the case here that it is not always certain that you can operate two external screens at the same time (and whether the internal one is still usable).
Remedy, then possibly A USB graphics adapter
https://www.alternate.de/i-tec/Video-Adapter-USB3-0-USB-C-2x-4K-DisplayPort/html/product/1524292
Depending on the case, it may be. It also makes more sense to use a kind of USB-C docking station with the appropriate connections, because you then killed all the other cable connections with it.
And yes, there's also a kind of "splitter", but this is a somewhat special solution - for this the HDMI or DisplayPort output of your notebook must also support quite high resolutions:
https://kvm-switch.de/de/uniclass-uph-102-konverter-1-x-displayport-zu-2-port-hdmi.html
