Questions & Answers for Apple 30-pin to VGA Adapter

The Apple VGA Adapter is designed to connect your iPad to a monitor, TV or projector using a VGA cable. This is an older type of connection but still common on many projectors sold today. A VGA connection can only carry a video signal. Another limitation of VGA is its lack of support for HDCP - 'High Definition Copy Protection' - which prevents the playback of some movies (for example movies rented or purchased from the iTunes store) on an external display.

The Apple Digital AV Adapter allows you to connect you iPad to a monitor, TV, projector or home theatre system using an HDMI cable. HMDI carries both a video and audio signal, and supports HDCP, making it ideal for playback of rented or purchased movies from the iTunes store. This adapter also includes a 30-pin dock connector to which you can connect a USB charging cable, allowing you to charge your iPad at the same time as using the adapter.

• Answered by Chris L
• Apr 22, 2012
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (what is the difference between vga adapter and the av cable)

VGA is a legacy port to connect computers and monitors. It stands for Video Graphics Adapter (some call it Video Graphic Array) and you'll also find VGA sometimes used to describe the resolution of the output from the computer: e.g. "SuperVGA. etc."

The connector is a three-row 15-pin DE-15 connector. The 15-pin VGA connector is found on many video cards, computer monitors, and some high definition television sets. On laptop computers or other small devices, a mini-VGA port is sometimes used in place of the full-sized VGA connector.

• Answered by James T from Wake Forest
• May 15, 2012
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (What does VGA stand for?)

I´ve just tried it and doesn´t work

• Answered by Herbert S from Guatemala
• Aug 16, 2010
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (Does it work with a DocumentsToGo Powerpoint document?)

No, this is a VGA adapter to connect to a monitor. There is also not currently an adapter for a external drive.

• Answered by James C from Springfield
• Jun 7, 2010
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (can i connect a lacie external harddrive to the ipad)

Yes, you can. You'll need to download an app like Air Sharing, Documents or QuickOffice that can view your documents.

• Answered by Emmanuel J from Cupertino
• Jan 25, 2011
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (If i have excel or word files on my mac and want to transfer and store to ipad and view them ... can it be done?)

NO. But not all apps will be displayed. iPhoto for example is in slideshow mode ONLY.

• Answered by Tony L from Waverly
• Jul 29, 2010
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (Is there a setting to turn on the external video output, or should just connecting the cable to the iPad be enough?)

It will not let you play iTunes downloaded movies on an external display but gives a message "this monitor is not authorized to display protected content"

If you sync the movies to a MacBook you can play the movie using the same monitor so I don't think the problem is the monitor

• Answered by John S from Piedmont
• Apr 22, 2010
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (Will it project all iTune downloaded movies?)

From a first generation iPad, your options are limited. However, if using iPad 2, you will be able to mirror the whole iPad 2 screen (including apps) using VGA. Mirroring without HDMI willonly work on iPad 2.

• Answered by Gidel M from Alexandria
• Aug 4, 2011
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (Which iPad apps can output video signal to the vga port? It seems that not a lot, right?)