Today in iOS Podcast - The Unofficial iOS, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch News and iPhone Apps Podcast : Ask Tii

Tue, 22 March 2011

Hi Rob,

Can you tell me what the digital av cable for the ipad 2 will be able to do on the iphone 4. Specifically what will play or show on your hdtv?

Also if the mirroring for the ipad2 will work for streaming video apps like slingbox and the nba league pass app onto a hdtv.?

Thanks Robert

Hi Robert,

Per the Apple Digital AV Adapter and the iPhone 4 - Apple says the Adapter will allow the iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4th gen and the iPad 1 "to pass movies and slideshows on your HDTV up to 720p". Which obviously is not very clear on specifically what Apps will work with it.

Some specific examples of apps that will work with the iPhone 4 are:

iPod App - Videos that play in there will play on the HDTV

Safari - Video Content on webpages

Photos - Slideshow and video playback

Youtube App

iMovie App (See Comments below)

These are some specific Apple Apps that are officially supported with the iPhone 4 and the Apple Digital AV Adapter. Additional 3rd party (non-Apple Apps) may work with the adapter - depending on how they are set up you will want to check the info page in the App store for any specific apps you are interested in.

Per the iPad 2 and the Apple Digital AV adapter - Any thing and every thing that shows up on the screen can / will be mirrored to your HDTV. So yes it will work with your slingbox app and the NBA League Pass app. The mirroring will be done at up to 1080p resolution.

Note: When first connecting to the iPad2 it may take up to 20 seconds for the iPad2 display to show up on your HDTV.

Regards,

Rob W

Category:vip_iPhone -- posted at: 5:30am EDT

Comments[3]

Yes I do. I update my apps at least a few times a day. Any ideas where to find web videos on safari that don't require flash. Thanks again for your show and all you do for the ios community. I look forward to your show every week because there is always something of value that you talk about that can be applied to several ios devices.
posted by: Robert on 2011-03-24 07:43:10
Robert, iMovie according to Apple is supposed to work with the iPhone4 and the Digital AV Adapter. Do you have the most recent update of iMovie? Rob W
posted by: rob@wizzard.tv on 2011-03-23 13:05:49
I tried the imovie app for Iphone 4 and it did not play any movies on the HDTV. Is it because its the updated version of app after the ipad 2 announcement. The slingbox app worked for my iphone4 but the nba league pass did not. Netflix also works on iphone 4.
posted by: Robert on 2011-03-23 07:59:43

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