Macworld 2010: Kanex shows HDMI to Mini DisplayPort for iMac input

I know is in April, but in which day? The Europeans will be harmed in the price, or the conversion will be done correctly?

Wentdont9,

It works with the 24 inch cinema, but its limited to the cinemas hardcoded input EDID's
You can use a PC or PC Laptop and set the resolution to either of these resolutions and it will work. I could see bluray working through a PC , alas not a PS3 or Xbox on the 24 inch like the 27 inch.

1920 by 1200 pixels
1280 by 800 pixels
1024 by 640 pixels

will it display 1080p on 24 cinema?

Will this be coming to the UK in April as well? If so, where will I be able to get a hold of one?

Hello guys,

I work for Kanex,

Danny, there is no wasted pixels, its edge to edge, 720 comes from the source no scaling. As far as price goes, the competition is about 50 bucks more.

Brad is correct; using the Toslink is the way for serious audiophiles to get 5.1

Trev, 720P seems to be more then enough on a 27inch that’s got the tightest packed pixels anywhere, seriously nobody can tell its 720P, maybe at 36'' you could, but the 27 seems completely at home with 720P which is also the HD that apple offers on iTunes purchases BTW.

Clayts, yes, the 24inch cinema display has MDP input, and it works. !

Oliath, no lag whatsoever!

Matt, it’s going to be brushed aluminum, a beautiful box that will compliment your iMac or Cinema display nicely.

Jesse - Yes output in 720P and you can do that.

Any guess whether this would work the other way by say, connecting an Apple TV (HDMI, Toslink) to a Apple Cinema Display (Mini DisplayPort)? It's kind of pricey but would give me more use for my Apple Cinema Display.

I'm wandering what's so special about this product. There are already 2 products out (that I know of) that sound like the exact same thing. The Dr. Bott Digital Link and there is also one made by Apogee Inc. They are already released, they both cost $150 (including cables!) and I'm using the Dr. Bott now and it's good. Someone please tell me what makes this better...

Elgato's EyeTV really wasn't a solution for gaming, they shouldn't have been advertising it for gaming at all. EyeTV's problem is that it encodes video to make it fit what a USB 2 cable can carry, and the computer has to decode it again.

I would hope that this device has negligible lag, it shouldn't have any of the limitations that EyeTV has.

Ahh, so this is going to do what the Dr Bott Digital Video link has been doing for the past month+, for the same price, only released a few months later.

I've been playing xbox on my iMac for the last month and absolutely love it. I didn't have a HD tv before so the video quality on the iMac (even at 720) was definitely a step up. I can now actually see those little guys a mile off when I'm playing Mass Effect :)

This is great.... but was there any lag on the displayed image?

I used Eye TV Hybrid... or more accurately TRIED to use it for xbox gaming and there was definite latency in the displayed image which made gaming quite awquard and controlling things a bit hard.

The device was advertised as suitable for gaming and having zero latency. When i emailed customer support they admitted that there was small bit of latency but under a few points of a second. Unfortunately this made it not suitable for any serious gaming.

So my issue with this... is if it is not just a direct HDMI feed then will it not just have the same issues. $145 is good value to use your mac as a monitor but not if it doesn't do it properly.