so here i am back again looking for guidance with a home entertainment quandary.
my issue: i recently dug out my old nes and n64 usb controllers, so i have been enjoying playing emulators on my lap top. i however think it would be peachy if i could sit in my bedroom, play on my laptop but have my tv mirror my laptop screen. alas i am technologically impaired so here i am.
my setup: i will try to keep it simple so as to avoid talking about speakers and stuff that have nothing to do with this and so i do not get too involved in talking about things i know nothing about. i have a flat screen tv with 2 hdmi ports (honestly not sure of other specs). one hdmi port has a cable box hooked up to it, the other has a 3 way switch currently hooked up to a blue ray player and a roku se. my laptop does have bluetooth capabilities.
i have done some research and found that many rokus are capable of mirroring via bluetooth. sadly, i do not think mine has that feature. the roku se was pretty much a roku 1 that they specially packaged for black friday. i do not think it has bluetooth, but, i can however stream youtube videos from my phone to the tv through the roku through some process i cant understand.
i do not think my tv has wifi, although there is a usb port on it as well as on my cable box (not that i am saying i could just plug in a wifi dongle). i do have a wifi dongle as well as a bluetooth one.
any ideas? suggestions would be greatly appreciated. i did research bluetooth receivers that hook up to hdmi but they all seemed unnecessarily expensive.