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		greenknight on Feb 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple Reportedly Planning to Limit iPhone 15 USB-C... 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

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