Gotta hold onto those $60 HDMI adapter sales I guess... The ecosystem of USB C a...

greenknight · on Feb 16, 2023

doesnt their 'lightning to hdmi' adapter, really a hack with an arm chip with ram in there to transcode the output from the phone into a hdmi signal?

RulerOf · on Feb 16, 2023

It's basically an airplay receiver with an HDMI output.

AdamJacobMuller · on Feb 16, 2023

It certainly was. It might not be anymore but it worked fairly well so I'm not sure why they would change it.

kalleboo · on Feb 16, 2023

It still is since Lightning doesn't have the bandwidth for a raw HDMI signal, only a compressed video stream

scarface74 · on Feb 16, 2023

Does anyone not comparison shop?

https://a.co/d/2KdWjH9

goosedragons · on Feb 16, 2023

Not at all. Let's take a look at a USB C option:

https://www.amazon.com/Multiport-Adapter-Compatible-MacBook-...

For many many years there wasn't a reliable seeming 3rd party lightning to HDMI adapter. I bought mine in about 2019ish? And besides Apple the only one I could find was a sketchy clone of Apple's.