Ars Technica

Apple’s Lightning-to-HDMI adapter can’t mirror the iPad mini’s display at 1080p

Apple’s Lightning-to-HDMI adapter and the product page for the iPad mini claims that the device is able to output 1080p images to televisions. But that may not be strictly true, according to some ...
MacRumors

Check Out Doom Running on Apple's Lightning to HDMI Adapter

Installing Doom on a range of unusual hardware devices has become a fun challenge for programmers, and we've seen the game running on everything from the Apple Watch to the MacBook Pro Touch Bar. Over ...
AppleInsider

'Doom' can even be played on Apple's Lightning to HDMI adapter

Developers and enthusiasts continue to find new ways of running Doom on increasingly unusual hardware, the latest of which is an Apple HDMI adapter cable. This is only possible because the Lightning ...
Ars Technica

Apple's Lightning-to-HDMI can't actually output at 1080p

The lightning connector can push uncompressed 1080p. The A6 cannot encode the screen output into 1080p h.264 in real time, so it pushes a lower-res stream to the adapter, which then turns it into raw, ...
The Verge

You can even run Doom on an iPad HDMI adapter.

The $49 Lightning Digital AV Adapter uses a tiny version of iOS and its own CPU to decode packetized data from Lightning connections, allowing programmers like John (Nyan Satan) to run Doom directly ...
Hackaday

Apple Lightning

As a general rule of thumb, anything that has some kind of display output and a processor more beefy than an early 90s budget PC can run Doom just fine. As [John] AKA [Nyan Satan] demonstrates in a ...
GIGAZINE

A brave man appears to play DOOM using an Apple genuine Lightning conversion adapter

At the time of writing, the Lightning port that Apple has equipped the iPhone and iPad with is being replaced with a USB-C port. However, devices equipped with Lightning ports are still in active use, ...
Cult of Mac

Apple’s New Lightning To HDMI Adapter Will Set You Back $49

If you don’t have an Apple TV but want to look at all your pretty iPhone 5 pictures on your HDTV, then Apple just came out with some new Lightning adapters to help solve all your problems. For $49 you ...
Engadget

Here's how Apple's Lightning-to-HDMI digital AV adapter probably works

Last week, we shared how the folks at Panic had pulled apart one of Apple's Lightning to HDMI digital AV adapters in an attempt to figure out why it didn't seem to output true 1080p HD video. To their ...
The Verge

Why does Apple’s Lightning to HDMI adapter have an ARM computer inside?

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years ...
Engadget

Apple Store now selling Lightning to HDMI and VGA adapters for $49 each

As announced during yesterday's Apple product announcement event, the company is now selling Lightning to HDMI and VGA adapters in the online Apple Store. The Lightning Digital AV Adapter (seen above) ...