[adamisen]

Hopefully it's in pursuit of a connector that's somewhat forward & backward compatible for the next decade. It would be nice to learn more about Lightning. In particular the 1600x900 limitation is irritating. It'd be reassuring if this is something that will be addressed with a firmware update (similarly with the artifacts, though I have somewhat less hope for improvements there).

I'm gung-ho for Lightning but if it turns out to be nothing more than a fancy way to make USB expensive and proprietary I'll be having another think. If it guarantees accessory compatibility for 6-10 years it's worth a couple compromises but I do expect 1080P output as advertised.

[adamisen]

After careful parsing of Apple's specs languag, I now believe that mirroring from sub 1080P devices (iPad mini, iPhone, iPod touch) is limited to 1600x900 but that 1080P video playback works (presumably without lame encode artifacts). It appears full size iPads will mirror 1080P.

It makes sense...