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 ...

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 ...

A recent teardown of Apple's Digital AV Adapter for Lightning connectors reveals that the unit comes with an embedded ARM system on a chip, complete with 256MB of RAM, which some speculate acts as an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The fine software developers over at Panic are working on some new AV software, and they are investigating Apple’s new-ish Lightning Digital AV Adapter. What they found is that unlike the earlier ...

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 ...

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, ...

Panic, the developers behind apps like Coda and Transmit, spent some time disassembling the Lightning Digital AV cable that allows iOS devices like the iPad mini and the iPhone 5 to output HDMI to ...

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