Digital Trends

Apple’s Lightning AV adapter is actually a computer, uses Airplay for TV-out, and has some problems

Apple’s new Lightning AV adapter, which allows iPhones and iPads alike to send out a video feed to TVs via HDMI, isn’t your ordinary cable. While most cables simply adapt the device to send out an ...
Cult of Mac

Apple’s Lightning Digital AV Adapter Has An Incredible Secret

Over the weekend, a fascinating little post over on the Panic weblog revealed that the Lightning AV adapter meant to send video out from a connected iPhone or iPad over HDMI had an interesting little ...
ExtremeTech

One reason for Apple's overpriced cables: The Lightning digital AV adapter has its own ARM SoC

Sending video from your phone or tablet to your TV is very useful, and many options exist for doing so wirelessly -- though most existing solutions are highly compressed and quite laggy. Obviously, a ...
The Next Web

Apple’s Lightning AV Adapter contains an ARM SoC, 256MB memory, may be an ‘AirPlay’ decoder

Apple’s new Lightning Digital AV Adapter appears to have a system on a chip inside of it and may actually function as an AirPlay receiver, according to some recent investigation by Panic Software. The ...