IPad to tv or home theater

I can't seem to see anyway to connect my ipad to my tv or to my yamaha sound bar. My tv has various input capabilities on the side and so does my sound bar. Playing movies from netflix is nice, but not when you want the family to watch too. Any ideas please?

The VGA adaptor delivers the best resolution of the 3 possible "video-out" solutions that Apple offers. Now that both Netflix and Air Video have reved their apps to do video out it seems like the next natural thing is to figure out how to convert the VGA out to an HDMI signal so we can send movies from our iPad to our TVs. There are meny VGA > HDMI converters and I have tried the Atlona VGA to HDMI Scaler/Converter (USB Powered). Model: AT-HDVieW as I saw it mentioned (http://bit.ly/c5U7nv) as a specific match to the iPad. It didn't work. There is no setting on the iPad to send video out rather than display it on its own screen. It switches automatically when it senses "something" attached to the VGA adaptor. This "sensing" works flawlessly when connected to a real VGA monitor but I'm guessing that the Atlona converter is not sending the needed signal back to the iPad to trigger it to dump the video. Will someone please pick up this ball so we can solve this? Other possibilities abound. Here's a few http://bit.ly/d4jgkD and http://bit.ly/asc4RJ THANKS!!

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paulmohr wrote:
Ok after looking at the manual for that reciever this is what I come up with.
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