iPad outputting a 4:3 video image through component cables?

[ignus graius]

Yesterday I bought the component AV cable with the hopes of playing iPad video on an HDTV. I know for NTSC the most I can hope for is 480p, but I can't get the iPad to send a widescreen image to the television. Depending on whether the "Widescreen" option is on or off, it either crops the edges or letterboxes the video, and the result is a stretched image on the television screen. The cables work fine with my jailbroken iPhone 4.

Has anyone with a jailbroken (or even non-jailbroken) iPad been successfully able to play widescreen content on an HDTV?

 

[sergio27]

I'm having the same problem. Is there a solution?

 

[ignus graius]

I'm having the same problem. Is there a solution?

FWIW, I tried playing a video the other night using 4.2.1 (jailbroken) and everything seemed fine. Just remember to go into settings and set the output to "widescreen" (that never worked for me on 3.2).

 

[f4780y]

The iPad is basically a 4:3 device, being that it is 1024 x 768. It was not conceived to be a video processor for an external display.
There is some decent info on the subject here...

www.roughlydrafted.com/ipad-6-it-needs-hdmi-for-hd-video-output/

 

[ignus graius]

The iPad is basically a 4:3 device, being that it is 1024 x 768. It was not conceived to be a video processor for an external display.
There is some decent info on the subject here...

www.roughlydrafted.com/ipad-6-it-needs-hdmi-for-hd-video-output/

Yes... I wasn't necessarily referring to mirroring the iPad display, but the format of the video output when a video is played on the iPad (e.g., a movie that I downloaded).

Ever since the fifth generation of the iPod, you could select what format the output was presented as, either 4:3 or 16:9 (the fifth generation iPod had a 4:3 screen, too). I had originally posted this thread because I was house-sitting and wanted to watch downloaded TV shows on the owners' television and found that the output was never formatted correctly for the 16:9 screen, even though the correct option was selected in the iPad's settings.

I posted this thread in the Hacks section because I was jailbroken and didn't know if my errors were due to my iPad being jailbroken. I'm at 4.2.1 (also jailbroken) and video plays on a TV as expected.