Comments on: The Lightning Digital AV Adapter Surprise

By: citrix xenapp

citrix xenapp — Tue, 07 May 2013 13:52:52 +0000

I don’t think this is really all that new. The way that the students are using “slash” is basically the way you’d write using hyphens instead of spaces, only without actually using the hyphens.

By: Digital Foundry

Digital Foundry — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:39:20 +0000

My biggest issue with the Lightning HDMI output dongle is that gaming apps seem to suffer significant performance drops with display out enabled. Have a look at a pre-race sequence on Real Racing 3 with the dongle attached to the display, then quit the race and retry with the dongle out. It’s a night and day difference in terms of frame-rate.

My guess is that there’s not enough bandwidth to service two displays without a performance penalty – I see exactly the same thing with the Tegra 3 tablets I’ve tested. The same thing happens on the older 30-pin HDMI output too on both iPad 2 and iPad 3.

The only tablet I’ve tested that gives a full frame-rate on the HDMI output is the Surface RT, which uses standard Windows display options, allowing you to disable the tablet screen and pour all resources into the display output.

Maybe Anonymous Coward and his chums could address this in a future iOS update? An option to disable the tablet screen and divert all system resources to the HDMI output would be grand. Removing the dongle would “re-boot” the tablet display.

By: Shtirlic

Shtirlic — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:41:59 +0000

Looks to me that this is a playground for Apple “iGlass”

By: ben

ben — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:09:39 +0000

Cognitive his own shortcomings is a good start, let us work togetherhttp://www.hv-stock.com/index.html

By: Troy Stephen Augustine Salt Lake City

Troy Stephen Augustine Salt Lake City — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 04:52:13 +0000

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By: Amit

Amit — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:32:15 +0000

Safe to say the upcoming project was Status App?

By: bsomeoneurnot

bsomeoneurnot — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 08:15:34 +0000

So basically, Apple stuffed an A4.5 (A4 CPU, A5 GPU) into a cable with a bunch of caps and resistors and charged $50 for it.

Lightning is 2 steps forward (reversible connector and software upgradable), but 2 steps back (kills compatibility with 30-pin ecosystem and probably bandwidth limited to something between USB2 and USB3).

By: celloville

celloville — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 02:18:05 +0000

From the teardown does someone know how many wires come out of the lightning side? I need to extend the length of the cord coming out of the adapter. I’m thinking of chopping off the connector and soldering on an extension.

By: regnum

regnum — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:07:53 +0000

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By: Freddy

Freddy — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:53:31 +0000

so…. did anybody try with displayout, cydia app? you can fix the resolution there. i wonder how that works with loghting.