I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and Spams You with Ads

Re:I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and S... by goosedragons on Friday September 29, 2023 @09:20PM (#37712008)

It's not THAT weird. Lightning can't carry HDMI at all so even Apple's official adaptor is essentially setting up an Airplay connection over USB and has an ARM SoC to handle it. I'm guessing 3rd parties can't do the same trick without Apple's blessing which results in scary seeming workarounds.

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Re:I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and S... by tymscar on Friday September 29, 2023 @09:46PM (#37712129)

Do you have a source on that? I ask because it’s genuinely such a cool thing but I can’t find anything about it online even though I have seen this mentioned before.

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Re:I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and S... by cma on Friday September 29, 2023 @09:54PM (#37712170)

https://www.theverge.com/2013/3/1/4055758/why-does-apples-li...

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Re:I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and S... by tymscar on Friday September 29, 2023 @09:57PM (#37712186)

Seems to have been debunked.

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Re:I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and S... by parker_mountain on Friday September 29, 2023 @10:20PM (#37712272)

The premise (low end soc streaming video over usb) is not debunked at all.

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Re:I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location and S... by kalleboo on Friday September 29, 2023 @10:59PM (#37712455)

There are lots of third-party HDMI adapters for cheap on Amazon that work as a clone of Apple's with no need for any software. Might not be legal but they do work.

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