iPhone to TV: how to connect your iPhone, iPad or iPod to your TV

Did you ever wonder about connecting your iDevice to your TV? Apple has made this possible for standard TV as well as for high definition television sets. You can do this with the cables or even better through Wi-Fi connection.

Please keep in mind that different TV sets have different kind of ports and this will determine how will you connect them to your iPhone, iPod or iPad.

Cable connection:
There are four different adapters compatible with your TV:
For standard definition television set you will probably have a composite adapter. Such a adapters have a dock port on your device, an USB cord and on the other end RCA plug for sound and video. This kind of adapter is supported only by video apps (for example: AirVideo).

More advanced televisions that still use analog technology but offer higher definitions work with Component adapters. Such adapters use the dock port on your iDevice, USB cable for power and syncing and RCA ports on the other end of the cable for sound and video. Unfortunately only video apps like AirPlay will work with this kind of connection.

VGA adapters are needed for those of you who still own their old fashioned TVs which works on VGA standards. This kind of adapter consist of a docking port for your iPhone (or iPod and iPad) on one end, of USB cord and VGA plug on the other end which you will need to connect to the TV. This will only work again for video apps only like AirPlay.

It gets more modern and better with HDMI adapters. HDMI adapter is a new product coming from Apple and it will support highest television standards all the way up to 1080 p. Apple’s HDMI has a dock port on the end you connect to your iPhone or iPad and a HDMI port on the end that goes into your big screen. With the new iPad2 this HDMI adapter will support everything including apps so everything you see on your iPhone screen will be visible on your TV also. Unfortunately on older devices like iPhone 4 only video apps will work.

How to use composite and component adapters:

Connect the cable to your device
Connect one end with the USB to your Mac or Windows PC or if you want to connect your iPhone to your TV insert the RCA plugs into your TV
Find the right channel for your TV, start your favorite video app on your iPhone like AirVideo or Net Flix and enjoy the video content on your big screen.

Instructions for VGA adapters:

Connect your cable to your iPhone or iPad
Insert the other end which has a VGA connector into your television set
Find the proper channel on your TV
Start a video app like iPod or AirVideo on your iDevice

Instructions for the new HDMI adapter:

Connect one end to your iDevice
Insert the HDMI port into your television
You can also plug in the USB port into your computer for charging your device if you need so.
Find the proper input like HDMI1 Or HDMI2 (this depends on your TV)
Start Video Mirroring on your new iPad2 or start some video app like iPod or Keynote on your older iDevice and enjoy the video content on your big screen high definition TV!

Connect your device with Wi-Fi

With 4.2 we have first time used Air Video which has enabled users to stream their video content from iPhone, iPad or iPod to TV with help of Apple TV device.
New upcoming iOS 4.3 will improve this so any app can use this ability. For Apple TV to work your television needs to be HD.

Start your video app (YouTube or iPod video for iOS 4.2)
Tap on Air Play option and choose Apple TV from the list of devices.
You have now connected your iPad to your HDTV and you can enjoy the videos you have on your HD TV!

Please share any experiences or advices about this in our comments section.

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