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Kanex Mini DisplayPort Adapter Helps Your Mac Mini Pump Out HD Video

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From the start, the Mac mini was seen as the perfect way to serve up video and audio to your home television. Trouble was, with the advent of high-definition pictures, your mini and HD sets had a bit of a failure to communicate. When Apple created the mini, it would interface with the world using the Mini DisplayPort standard – which was great if you had an Apple monitor, but for the rest of the planet, it was a bit like speaking only Klingon.

Kanex has introduced a bridge of sorts, an adapter which sits between your Mini DisplayPort output and your high-def television’s HDMI video and audio input. The upshot? The adapter will “turn a DisplayPort video signal into a 1080p signal over HDMI, and will even integrate either digital or analog audio into the mix,” Engadget writes.

The $70 unit grabs power from the USB port, eliminating the need for yet another power brick and associated cables for your HD entertainment setup.

Earlier this year Monoprice.com announced it would offer MacBook owners a Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapter for $14.25.

Kanex said its adapter works with Unibody MacBooks, MacBook Pros, the MacBook Air and iMac, along with the Mac Mini.

[Via iClarified, Engadget and Kanex]

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3 comments

    I first learned of this adapter on September first. Is it just me or has the price jumped ten dollars in the last week for this adapter? What a way to gain a customer base, first bait with a set price, get a little media attention then raise the price ten bucks. Despicable.

    That’s not a bad price. I bought a minDVI to HDMI cable off eBay for £5. Works a treat to display my MacBook at 1080p on my TV. o audio, but it was only as a test to see what it was like.

    In the USA http://www.whatacable.com sells an hdmi to mini displayport adapter as well. I use mine every day with my MacBook Pro

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