http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/ Engadget Comments for Kanex shows off HDMI to Mini DisplayPort adapter, your iMac celebrates http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/Feb 12th 2010 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/
Steve already explained this... most HDMI devices only go up to 1920x1080. DisplayPort can go much higher. Basically, HDMI in its current state wouldn't be able to drive Apple's highest resolution monitor.

However, HDMI 1.4 can go up to 4096×2160... but I guess you'd have to have HDMI 1.4 devices to support it.

I'm with you, I'd rather have plain ol' HDMI to hook a MacBook Pro to a TV.]]>Feb 12th 2010 6:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/
I think it has more to do with having to pay for the HDMI licensing which they don't have to do with displayport.]]>Feb 12th 2010 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/And I never really cared much for HDMI, however, I might buy this little thing. And use it to connect my 360 to it, and maybe sell my 40" TV I have in my room. Since that's all I ever use it for]]>Feb 12th 2010 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/
Steve's explanation is a cop out to the truth. The truth is that they are trying to push displayport, unsuccessfully, just like they did with firewire and provide incentive for Mac users to pay the marked up price of the Cinema displays.

HDMI, like bluray and esata and soon USB3 are not passing fads. Hell, it took ages just to get a simple SDHC reader. Cmon! LOL! xD]]>Feb 12th 2010 9:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/
Too bad Firewire was on every camcorder for about a decade... Firewire is the standard for digital audio workstations... and Firewire was faster than USB since the beginning.

Sure, we never needed Firewire keyboards and mice... but for all that other stuff , it's great.]]>Feb 13th 2010 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/hdmi supports resolutions that high with the newer revisions and still works with the older devices that just need 1080
its just that companies feel the need to make customers buy special cables just for the device]]>Feb 13th 2010 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/you dont care for hdmi, so you would support display port
do you realize you are supporting something much less common
hdmi is present in tv's, bluray players, ps3, flip video hd recorders, 360's, desktops, and laptops]]>Feb 13th 2010 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/Feb 16th 2010 4:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/Feb 12th 2010 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/Feb 12th 2010 5:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/Feb 12th 2010 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/
I believe that was implied in his comment.
Now give me some bi-directional support in an HDMI port on an iMac and you've got my dollar, but I doubt I'll ever see that.]]>Feb 12th 2010 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/Feb 12th 2010 5:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&cp_id=10428&cs_id=1042802&p_id=5311&seq=1&format=2]]>Feb 12th 2010 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/
"This device is not Bidirectional. It can only connect a Mini-DisplayPort source to an HDMI display. It will not work in reverse."]]>Feb 12th 2010 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/Right you are, my bad.
I've always hated apple, but I never thought they'd do something THIS stupid...]]>Feb 12th 2010 5:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/thanks,
noob]]>Feb 12th 2010 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/Feb 12th 2010 5:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/
Ah...another typical Engadget post title:

Informative title...comma...snarky comment.

Rinse and repeat.

]]>Feb 12th 2010 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/Feb 13th 2010 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/Feb 12th 2010 5:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/Feb 12th 2010 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/A $9 adapter solves your problem but switching to HDMI limits a lot of functionality that $9 can't fix. For example, being able to dock your MacBook with one cable for display/USB/keyboard/mouse/sound is a nice thing. Higher bandwidth is important for larger displays. And the fact it's an open spec means Apple can simply add any features they want in the future. ]]>Feb 12th 2010 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/
All that could be avoided if Apple just designed their DP to output audio. They can use the open standard and the end users can use whatever connectivity method they need.]]>Feb 12th 2010 11:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele//s]]>Feb 12th 2010 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/Feb 12th 2010 5:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/Feb 12th 2010 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/
HDMI does audio. 1.4 spec does audio both ways.

Get it right son..]]>Feb 13th 2010 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/It's not the HDMI part I'm concerned about. Go google displayport to HDMI adapters. 95% of the ones you find will NOT support audio through the displayport.]]>Feb 13th 2010 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/You are right, Apple does not support audio through the mini displayport. However, there a few adapters that get around this:

http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&cp_id=10428&cs_id=1042802&p_id=6331&seq=1&format=2#description

All macs support digital audio out through the 3.5mm jack which this adapter takes advantage of. I would much prefer Apple supporting audio through displayport right out of the box, but there are ways around it.]]>Feb 15th 2010 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/
Equally true is arguing open vs closed. Display port is open ... it's just not utilized very much at all. HDMI is clearly a more important connect at this point, but stay tuned. ]]>Feb 12th 2010 6:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/
Flash is also proprietary and widely used... Try releasing an internet table that doesn't play flash... oh wait...]]>Feb 12th 2010 7:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/
Everyone is bitching about how Apple is gratuitously incompatible. They intentionally make it more of a bother to hook up their gear to the rest of the world.

Although it's worse than even that. From generation to generation of the same model you might not even have the same connectors. So the dongles that fit one Mac might not even fit the next.]]>Feb 13th 2010 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/Feb 12th 2010 7:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/
It's not about displaying HD or movies. It's about connecting to most modern displays without needing another expensive and clunky adapter.

The POINT of HDMI is that it's one cable, one connection per device, and you're done. You can go to a friend's house and he'll probably have an HDMI cable hooked up to his HDTV or computer monitor (if he's up to date with his tech), and if you have HDMI built into your laptop, you can just plug in... No problems, no fuss, no extra adapters you need to carry around.

DisplayPort is useless to 99% of the consumers out there unless you get the adapters to go with it. Not many people have a device with DisplayPort connections. ]]>Feb 13th 2010 12:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/
Why is it that Macs are designed with such a minimal number of ports and connectors? The last MacBook I owned (an aluminum model) had no FireWire, one Mini DisplayPort, two USB ports, and an gigabit ethernet port, two audio ports (in and out) and that's about it.

My ASUS has four USB, one FireWire, one VGA, one HDMI, one gigabit ethernet, one eSATA, an antenna port (for an optional TV tuner card), plus three audio ports.

The problem with Mini DisplayPort on Macs isn't the port itself; It's Apple's insistence on it being the ONLY port, and requiring Mac owners to buy a handful of $30 adapters to use their Mac on all the standard external displays that exist. ]]>Feb 12th 2010 11:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/
Why should Apple put that stuff in if it's targeted at people that don't need it? It sounds like you got what you needed, it's just not an Apple product. And I have an Apple product and would prefer not to have it bristling with ports... it has more ports than I need.]]>Feb 13th 2010 12:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/
> Why should Apple put that stuff in if it's targeted at people that don't need it?

Clearly you're not paying attention or you have blinders on. Unless someone just bought their monitor from the Apple store, they are going to have connectivity issues. Anyone with a nice quality monitor that they just didn't buy yesterday, or a monitor they didn't buy at the Apple store is going to pose a problem.

Unless you are experiencing artificial turnover and only ever buying Apple equipment, you are going to run into a problem.

Not everyone that's ever bought an Apple has an "Apple only" fixation.

I imagine that's why there is an entire section in the Apple store dedicated to this very problem.]]>Feb 13th 2010 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/Feb 13th 2010 7:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/Feb 13th 2010 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/Feb 13th 2010 7:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvtuV16_RjQ if you don't want to wait till april for this 1080p adapter this one is great and it doesn't require an added audio cord, it includes everything you need for $150 and honestly 720p is good enough for many people, its a little grainy when playing a video game but trust me when i say that you won't be disappointed. you can buy it from tekserve, just see for yourself: http://www.tekserve.com/store/414/HDMI/-6323]]>Feb 14th 2010 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/kanex-shows-off-hdmi-to-mini-displayport-adapter-your-imac-cele/Displayport adapter.
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Hi Steven Bates,

You have received a message regarding your service request.

No, the Kanex XD can only output resolution of 720p for Xbox and PS3.

Kanex Team:
http://www.kanexlive.com

Kanex Blog For Support, News & Information:
http://www.kanexlive.com/blog
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