Streaming Video For most who followed Apple’s announcements today, the big news would have been the new lighter, thinner, faster version of the iPad, the latest iteration of iOS (iOS 4.3), which adds some features like local music sharing between devices on a home network, and of course the appearance on stage of a game, if painfully gaunt, Steve Jobs. For the studios and premium TV networks, however, the real news was something literally just
tossed in.
That would be the $39 1080p HDMI output dongle for the iPad 2 (dongle sold separately of course). From the perspective of high-value video content, the dongle basically turns any TV with a HDMI port into an Apple TV. With the dongle, an iPad 2 owner can download or stream copy-protected video to the tablet via iTunes or other app and display it on their big-screen TV, even if the user does not have an Apple TV set-top box. Read more »

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