Believe it or not I'm more than happy with the quality of the video from my iPod out to our HD 50" TV. We'd been using a Phillips DVD player before that also played CDs with burnt DivX or XVid videos (but it didn't upconvert them) and shows that I've converted via iSquint to "Optimize for TV" format played off the iPod look on par with those, and a lot better than I was expecting. The Lost ep I bought from the iTMS looked even better. Is it HDTV? Definitely not. Is it DVD? Not quite. But I really like it and feel others underhype the TV output a lot. On my normal 13" TV in my room, the quality is obviously awesome - up to DVD standards. It depends on how good a picture you demand for your viewing.