Apple Ipod Accessories – Lightning Digital AV Adapter for iPhone 5, 5C, 5S, 6, 6 Plus

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1. Roger J. Buffington

   October 22, 2015 at 11:19 pm

   201 of 226 people found the following review helpful

   
   Works perfectly to enable your Apple lightning device to play videos, December 30, 2012

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   Roger J. Buffington (Huntington Beach, CA United States) –
   
     
   
     

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   This review is from: Lightning Digital AV Adapter for iPhone 5, 5C, 5S, 6, 6 Plus / iPad Retina Display, mini, mini 2, mini 3, Air, Air 2 / iPod touch 5th Generation, 6th Generation (Electronics)

   This is the original Apple cable that enables your Apple Lightning device to play iTunes movies on your HDMI-equipped big TV. It works perfectly and effortlessly — I hooked my iPhone 5 up to my HDMI cable and the iPhone automatically output the movie to this cable and into the TV. This is a nice amenity for trips — you can fit quite a few movies or TV shows on an iPhone (or late-model iPad or iPod equipped with a Lightning interface) and watch the flicks on your TV. This cable also has a second input connector so that you can attach another Lightning cable to it while it is playing a video. This allows your Apple device to charge while playing. The cable works fine without this, however, as long as your device remains charged.

   I dung this cable one star due to its very high price. Many users, myself included, will not want to spring for more than one of these. But it does work perfectly. RJB.

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2. BS

   October 22, 2015 at 10:30 pm

   164 of 175 people found the following review helpful

   
   Hit Or Miss And A Little Expensive, November 9, 2013

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   BS (The South) –

   This review is from: Lightning Digital AV Adapter for iPhone 5, 5C, 5S, 6, 6 Plus / iPad Retina Display, mini, mini 2, mini 3, Air, Air 2 / iPod touch 5th Generation, 6th Generation (Electronics)

   I can only give this four stars because it doesn’t work perfectly. It’s also been noted that it’s not a full 1080 P device. It actually gives slightly lower resolution than full 1080p it is 1080x900p. It costs so much because it actually has a small computer device in it, with RAM because the lightning port is only a serial port. However the resolution may be increased with future iOS updates. The problems that I have are number one the picture doesn’t totally fill the screen with every app and number two it’s not DRM compliant so not all media will go to the television. This Hulu app seemed to work the best but some like NFL game rewind don’t work at all, you get sound with no picture on both screens. By the way I’m using this with an iPad 4 with the latest version of iOS 7.

   When it’s working right, the screen of the iPad has a message that it’s playing on TV. When it’s not working right, the image mirrors on both TV and the iPad. The picture on the TV will be letterboxed and in the shape of the actual iPad. A pleasant surprise was the ability, by using the chrome app, to reach speed2.com and watch races, displayed in the correct 16:9 ratio. Both the Max go and HBO go programs worked well while Netflix and Crackle had problems. I tried a couple different titles on Netflix and one did not work right,where it was mirrored on the iPad on the TV, but another movie worked fine and the iPad On TV message and the TV displayed the picture properly. The Amazon app didnt work at all, seemed to be related to lack of DRM. DRM stands for digital rights media and it’s a requirement for hdmi cabling so that movies cannot be copied to computers. Amazon may not have the rights to stream movies to a secondary device. The Chrome browser app also did not work right, it was mirrored on the iPad and the TV. I did not try Safari maybe it works correctly. However I did watch a short video on the Chrome app browser and it worked correctly. Another short video however did not. So it seems to be hit or miss.

   Pros

   -when it works it’s great
   -you can still charge your device while using it

   Con

   -price
   -not all apps fill screen
   -not all apps work at all with it, no DRM
   -reports of lag
   -not full/raw 1080p, which can lead to compression artifacts

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