Mirror iPad VGA display

Good morning,
I have the need to show the display of my Ipad on an external device/display to present a demo of an application. After a quick research on the web I found that the only way to accomplish this task goes through jailbreaking the device, thus loosing the warranty.
It looks like there’s no other way but breaking the warranty, so I see two options here:
1) Jailbreak the device and install the tools I need to enable this functionality
2) Give up with this idea, thus reducing the perceived value of my software
I ask myself why Apple is behaving like this! They have the technology to allow such functionality since they already show the ipad screen on projectors during conferences, so why don’t they share what they already have in house?
Thanks in advance to everyone who’ll provide some sugegstions to help me achiving this goal.
Regards

The iPad does not support mirroring the screen to the VGA output. The units used in Apple keynotes are specially modified to allow such use. Other than using a document camera to project the iPad's screen, there's nothing we can suggest that doesn't involve jailbreaking which we cannot discuss here.
You can comment to Apple on your interest in such a feature here:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html
Regards.

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