Airplay in 1080p – solution made

By Cam Bunton March 30, 2011 12:00 pm EST Comments

However great the Airplay feature is, enabling you to stream content to your Apple TV, it does have one downfall. It can’t stream in full HD, it only manages 720p. Thankfully, someone has come up with a solution.Â Eric Govoruhk and Kelly McAteer engineered a device that allows 1080p streaming from your iPad 2.

If you feel brave enough, and you have the right techie skills needed, give it a go yourself. You’ll need a USB battery back and a wireless HDMI transmitter.

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The process was posted in a MacRumors forum:

Basically, we were tasked with the coming up with ideas that could help a client with their presentations. Sometimes they run Keynote Presentations on a Mac, and sometimes they run Keynote Presentations on an iPad using a VGA adapter. While I liked how mobile you could get doing it off an iPad, youâ€™re still literally tethered by the cable running to the the A/V equipment. I knew there had to be some sort of solution, but sadly there wasnâ€™t, at least not all in one place. So I started looking at combining different solutions, and luckily, not many were needed. The core components are the wireless HDMI transmitter, and a USB battery pack.

Oh, and of course the iPad 2.

Everything is very rough, especially the housing. This all came together very quickly, and weâ€™re still working everything out. I just wanted to show you guys, because I know some of you are looking for similar solutions. Iâ€™m going to try and get an Instructable together once we get everything a little more finished. Maybe even try some other things, like a belt pack for those that donâ€™t want the added bulk in their hands, or what ever other ideas our tiny little heads can think of.

Via: 9to5 Mac