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Apple's Lightning-to-HDMI Dongle Secretly Packed With ARM, Airplay

Posted by Soulskill on from the also-a-reservoir-of-hipness dept.

New submitter joelville writes "After noticing artifacts and a 1600 × 900 image in the output from Apple's new Lightning Digital AV Adapter, the Panic Blog sawed it open and found an ARM chip inside. They suspect that video bypasses the cable entirely and instead uses Airplay to stream three inches to make up for the Lightning connector's shortcomings."

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  1. Re:Car analogy by LamboAlpha · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I wish I had mod points for you...

  2. Re:Good engineering? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Remember when Apple was known (at least by the general public) as being the company with simple, elegant engineering?

    How the mighty have fallen. Really, needing a computerized cable is just silly.

    The problem is likely that Lightening likely doesn't have enough pins to just pass through HDMI like the old connector.

    Since it is Apple who engineered the Lightning specification, the problem is that Apple did not do "simple, elegant engineering." Contrast that with FireWire which provided: isochronous transfers, device-to-device transfers without host involvement, faster sustained transfer rates and a sturdier connector than USB. That was when they did elegant engineering.