Whats this cable about?

I'm not anti apple (although it may seem like that to a bunch on the list) but I just thought it was a bit sleazy... maybe it would save some people on the list acouple bucks
 
840quadra said:
It connects an ipod to your TV

They use the headphone jack on one end, and the other end contains RCA jacks that carry Video (Yellow) and Audio Left (White), and Audio Right (RED)
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What's the jack at the other end of the cable? If it's for a video camera, it's not likely to be ipod connectable, is it?
 
aren't those colors stadardized. aka. would you be allowed to sell it with different colors? i don't think so. maybe its a hoax.
 
If Apple really have simple swapped the colours around to fool people into paying them for an Apple product I find that really sad and petty.

I don't mind companies etc. haveing they're own way of doing things (like the laughable two pin plugs they use in the US in favour of a proper British three pin;) ) but someting as simple as that just smacks of contempt for their customers.
 
andiwm2003 said:
aren't those colors stadardized. aka. would you be allowed to sell it with different colors? i don't think so. maybe its a hoax.
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I'm assuming that Apple's product follows the standard red/whit/yellow config. to connect to the TV but the standard size and shape jack to the iPod is configured so that the pick-ups for those colours are mixed.
 
Quoting the Apple store about the dock:
Display photos on a TV or other video device using an iPod AV Cable or S-video cable if you have an iPod with a color display.

Display videos on a TV or other video device using an iPod AV Cable or S-video cable if you have an iPod with video capability.
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And on the iPod Page:
Show and share
Use the optional iPod A/V cable to play videos and photo slideshows with music on your TV. Or combine the new Apple Remote with an optional iPod Universal Dock to control your music, videos and slideshows from across the room.
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If you have the dock an s-video>composite cable (which soms people may have) will work.

However from the iPod itself, you have to have a 3.5mm>component cable to try this hack, instead of buying the Apple one.

Some manufacturers use the 3.5mm "headphone" plug as their TV-out connector, and if you own one of these (as I do) you may be in luck with this hack.
Remember that no iPods come with the dock as standard any more.
If I had an iPod video I would try this. Does someone want to lend me a few hundred bucks to test it!? :D
 
Oh and FYI, the Red, White and Yellow connectors are called "Composite".
Not to be confused with "Component" outputs (Red, Green, Blue)
The Yellow connector is the video and the other two are the audio. This is not an Apple convention by any stretch.
This type of connection (component) is possibly the most basic (and worst quality) available today. Apple should release both HDMI (DVI) and Component cables for the iPod.
 
This "switcheroo" isn't apple being sleazy as suggested, however. If you look at the mini end of the cable (or a headphone cable for that matter) you see the little rings. A headphone cable has two, an A/V has three - two for audio and one for video. The reason you have to switch when using another manufacturers cable is they typically have a different order of rings becuase A typical video camera doesn't have to use headphones like an iPod.
 
James Philp said:
Not to be confused with "Component" outputs (Red, Green, Blue)
The Yellow connector is the video and the other two are the audio. This is not an Apple convention by any stretch.
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Isn't that what my post said? I laid out what the Red, White and Yellow Cables did in my first reply.
 
840quadra said:
Isn't that what my post said? I laid out what the Red, White and Yellow Cables did in my first reply.
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Your post was far too inconsistent to follow though. You see, you wrote the colours in brackets, but red was in capitals whilst the others were not. It completely threw me. :(
 
skamin said:
This "switcheroo" isn't apple being sleazy as suggested, however. If you look at the mini end of the cable (or a headphone cable for that matter) you see the little rings. A headphone cable has two, an A/V has three - two for audio and one for video. The reason you have to switch when using another manufacturers cable is they typically have a different order of rings becuase A typical video camera doesn't have to use headphones like an iPod.
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Thats what I figured... Apple wouldn't deliberately break the standard. And it needs to be noted that there is tweaking involved because this is a small hack.
It does make me wonder, though, how many rings does the apple one have, and is the sound on this particular hack mono or stereo?
 
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