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It's an iPad Air and it requires a short HDMI to lightning adapter but it's always worked fine. I agree with you about the lower value and more importantly less bulky travel device though, which is why I'm not packing my iPad on this upcoming trip. Hopefully the new Micca device that I've just purch...

Thanks! Wouldn't this technically be considered treating the HDMI port as an 'input monitor' in the same way that connecting an iPad via HDMI would? Both store the content and output the video files via HDMI. I've personally never (extremely rarely!) encountered issues with MKV files via HDMI to TV ...

I just pulled the trigger on this gadget - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008NO9RRM/

It would seem to be the most reliable solution... I hope it works!!

Thanks so much! I've just contacted the hotel to inquire about the make and model of their televisions. Unfortunately it's around 3am in Tokyo right now so I'll try again in a few hours. I'm hoping that they have USB inputs so I can just dump a bunch of MKVs onto a Flash Drive and be done with it! L...

If it's at all helpful, this is the disc that I would like to rip: https://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/youth ... no-seishun

This is sort of complicated... I'm going to be in Tokyo this time next week and there's a Blu-Ray disc that I want to be able to bring along and watch. The disc is region-locked "B" and it's a UK import. I assume PAL encoded. It's one of those dual-format standard/HD sets and I'd like to e...