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Atlona Comes to Apple’s Rescue with DVI-To-Mini DisplayPort Adapter

One strategy applied by quite a few consumer electronics and computer manufacturers out there is to stimulate sales by making it impossible for customers to use their older hardware with the latest product releases. To some extent, that’s exactly what happened with Apple, whose DisplayPort-enabled 24-inch Apple monitors will not work with computers manufactured prior to 2009.

Plus, going from Mini DisplayPort to DVI is simple, and many products that allow this conversion are already on the market; however, there have been no products that allowed the opposite conversion, until now.
Plus, going from Mini DisplayPort to DVI is simple, and many products that allow this conversion are already on the market; however, there have been no products that allowed the opposite conversion, until now.

Atlona’s new AT-DP200 (the converter in question) inputs DVI and outputs Mini DisplayPort signal while passing along all EDID and HDCP information. This device converts while allowing one’s computer to scale to the optimal resolution offered by the display, including here 1920 by 1200 or 1280 by 800.

Furthermore, Atlona claims that the AT-DP200 was put through extensive testing in Apple’s compatibility lab, going up against every single Apple computer with a DVI port, and every monitor featuring Mini DisplayPort. Atlona Technologies also put this product through PC interoperability testing with all standard DVI video cards, all the tests being successful, of course.