I also revisited my posts about this last year before purchasing the cable, and remember this problem arose:
*Turns out that if you have your iPad plugged in to your TV and choose to download a purchased film, it detects the cable and opts (in secret) to download in a format suitable for mirroring.* *If you're not plugged in at the time, it doesn't offer any option, merely downloads suitable for iPad and then refuses to mirror.* Seems odd that it's now working at home. Wondering if it all depends what you're trying to mirror to and rather hit and miss as to what will / will not work on the day?!?! On Sunday 4 August 2024 at 07:57:42 UTC+1 Adam Pymble wrote: > Hi all > > This will read like a horribly first world problem I'm afraid.... > > I'm trying to connect our iPad mini (new) to a TV to watch pre-downloaded > films with the children whilst on holiday. These include iPlayer, Prime, > Netflix and purchased content. > I have both an adaptor (non-Apple) and a USB-C to HDMI cable. > The adaptor works with my hp monitor. When plugged in to the TV, the iPad > thinks it's mirroring but nothing appears on the TV. > The cable works just fine my TV at home but not with the TV in the > apartment. The latter is a more generic and older unit. The iPad thinks it > is mirroring, but behaves like the adaptor. > I've tried off/on, unlpugging, restarting etc. > > Various other (lesser!) forums suggest mirroring movies is often > unreliable and all part of DRM protection, hence the different results I'm > generating. > > I know Apple sell a rather expensive adaptor. I just wonder if it's the > receiving TV not being able to mirror in quite the same way? I'm not really > wanting to purchase a pricey adaptor for this, especially without more > certainty it'll resolve the problem. > > Any thoughts or ideas or experience, gratefully received! > > Cheerio > > Adam > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/f61af543-6249-465f-bf03-b8eadc920eaen%40googlegroups.com.
