Ok nerds, need y'alls help. I am illiterate when it comes technology regarding spliters, switches and matrix. Need some guidance and teaching.

Here is the situation, I am putting a monitor next to my chair in the livingroom so I can game. Connected to TV is the Roku and the Xbox series x. My question, I want to connect the Xbox to the monitor so I can game, while at the same time, the wife can watch what she wants on the tv using the Roku. And if she wants to use the xbox how can she do this without unplugging and plugging in cords. Do I need a spliter, switch or matrix. I dont have a monitor yet, and thats another question, what monitor to buy without breaking the bank.

So for you nerds, what would be a decent monitor for under 300 dollars and what device will work best to accomplish going back and fourth between the monitor and TV without disturbing one or the other.

I hope worded what I said properly. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Again, I am illiterate when it comes to this type of technology.

You're looking for an HDMI matrix, at least a 2x2, 2 input (Roku and XBox) and 2 output (TV and Monitor), but you may want to go with a 4x2 or 4x4 if you think you'll ever want to have more stuff hooked up.

It'll probably take some trial and error to see if everything works in your desired setup, you can run into signal degradation issues with matrixes or some weird handshake issues if you've got mixed resolutions on different displays (4k vs. 1080p)

If it was me, i would probably try something like this one first. It's a 4x4, but it ticks a lot of boxes; 4k@60Hz with 18Gbps bandwidth, EDID (for resolution and refresh rate handshake), and downscaling. Read the reviews, see what kind of issues people are having, because these are definitely not perfect devices.

Thank you so much for the info.