Watch cable tv through Horizon II 27"

I have a Lenovo Horizon II 27". How do I switch back and forth between the computer functionality and watching tv without pulling the hdmi plug in and out? I want to watch tv in a window on the device when the computer is running.

Through a roundabout method I have achieved what appears to be your ultimate goal of watching HD TV on an iMac. I purchased an El Gato EyeTV 250 Plus HD capable TV tuner (current model). I then ALSO obtained an additional HD TV cable tuner box from my cable provider Comcast. I hooked my incoming house Comcast coax cable into the back of the Comcast HD TV cable box, ran another short coax cable from the output of the Comcast cable box to the input of the El Gato EyeTV tuner, and I then ran the required USB 2.0 cable from the output of the El Gato TV tuner to a USB input on the iMac. (Whew!) You then need to set the El Gato TV tuner to cable channel "3", and use the Comcast HD tuner cable box Remote to control what HD channel you are watching. The TV audio is obtained from the usual iMac sound output that you use. It works Great! I have been watching my iMac TV shows for months now.
Giving credit where credit is due, it was the Comcast Cable TV technical support people on the phone who originally walked me thru the thinking of how to watch HD TV shows from Comcast on my iMac.

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