Video mirroring is a new function from Apple that, together with an HDMI adapter, allows us to transfer the image from the springboard of the iPad/iPad 2 tablet or the iPhone4/iPod Touch 4G terminals to a monitor. Only the iPad 2 can stream in 1080p format to compatible monitors, the rest of the iDevices can only stream in 720p format due to the inferior hardware. Now movies like movies, but think how it would be to play a game on a high resolution monitor, without lag and using your iDevice only as a controller for the actions in the game.
I know most of the games available now in the AppStore don't have good enough graphics to look good on a big screen, but imagine what it would be like to surf the web remotely using an iPad tablet to access the pages. Think how it would be to be able to use a remote computer and transmit its image through an iPad tablet directly to a large monitor. Of course, all of this requires that the respective monitor be compatible with the HDMI standard, but the iPad 2 opens up a whole series of "opportunities". AirPlay has a certain lag in the transmission of images, but through HDMI there will be no lag neither in games nor in opening applications, everything will be as fluent as on the tablet screen.
The adapter that allows us to do video mirroring costs only $39 and I will buy one because it is worth the money from my point of view.
