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The new member

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Watching the keynote, I noticed a video cable connected to the phone. Will this cable go on sale?
 

babyj

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Wasn't that just a hack job done to get the display on the big screen?

I can't remember if there was a headphone socket on it, if there was then I'd imagine you can hook it up to a TV the same as a standard iPod.
 

MacCheetah3

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It does have a headphone jack but it's audio only, as far as I'm aware.

babyj is correct. The video connection they had for the keynote was a modified iPhone with a "special board" so that they could show what's on the phone on the big screen, Jobs said it himself.
 

dernhelm

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Hmmm...does the iPhone connect to the dock? If so, can't it work through the A/V dock?

It does, and one would think that this would work just fine. But I will say I agree with those that the cable shown during the keynote certainly looked like a hack job.
 

Chundles

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The iPhone in the presentation had a special board that Steve said was there to give "digital video" to the projector - I'd imagine so that the quality was exactly like what was on the screen - Apple's keynote slides are projected in high definition, a regular composite or SVideo output wouldn't look so good at that size.

I would be very surprised if it didn't have A/V out like the iPod does.
 
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