Here’s something not from a geek’s basement development studio. *grin*
We all know the iPhone and iPod touch can already display video on a TV via a TV-out cable. However, Apple limits that only to the iTunes application. Enter Ars Techinca, who uncovered an undocumented class in the latest iPhone SDK that allows applications to send visuals to an external monitor instead of the screen. I am sure developers would love to use this feature for… games!
However, here’s the catch. The feature is categorised as undocumented. Which means, everyone other than Google is allowed to use it, literally.
Legality aside, Ars Technica managed to convince Freeverse, famed developers of tiles like Moto Chaser to come out with a version of their game modified to utilize this hidden TV-out function. A demo was done within hours.
Now, the only thing we need next is for Apple to give the green light and recategorise this as a feature within the SDK before we start to see applications with TV-out features appearing on the App Store shelves.
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