Netflix Update Adds iPad Video-Out

The Netflix iPad application will now let you watch your streamed movies on the big screen. The 1.0.2 update brings support for the iPad Dock Connector to VGA Adapter, allowing you to pipe the video out to any VGA-compatible TV, monitor or projector.

The trick with Apple’s $30 dongle is that developers need to explicitly give it a purpose. Unlike hooking a monitor up to a notebook computer, you don’t automatically get either an extra screen or a mirrored version of the existing one. Instead, the developer decides what, if anything, gets shown. Apple’s Keynote app, for example, shows the presentation slideshow only, letting the iPad’s own screen show the control interface. Many apps will only show a blank external screen until a movie is played or a slideshow started.

So now you can hook your iPad up to a TV, sit back and watch big screen Netflix movies, albeit in low-res, analog VGA. It’s handy for hotels, we guess, or ad-hoc movie sessions at a friend’s home, but we can’t help thinking that Apple’s rather more flexible, do-anything Camera Connection Kit is a far better first accessory to buy.

Netflix update [iTunes via TUAW]

iPad Dock Connector to VGA Adapter [Apple]

See Also:

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• iPad USB Camera Connector Works With Keyboards, Audio In-Out …


• Five Essential iPad Accessories


• Netflix Streaming on iPad


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