For my Christmas present this year, I went out and bought the Apple iPod with video. I really hadn't been happy with my Dell DJ due to their abandonment of my model, and once the video iPod came out, I decided to make the leap. I've been very happy with it, the audio and screen quality are great and I love how easy it is to keep in sync using iTunes.
However, when I tried using a standard RCA to mini-jack cable (the ones that commonly come with camcorders) to watch video from my iPod onto the television, I found that it didn't work.
After a quick search, I found this article that details what I needed to do. Basically, all Apple did was send the video down the red ended cables, which is traditionally for one of the audio channels. Yes, that's right, they swapped the red and yellow ends on the cables, be still my beating heart. All that I needed to do was move the red cable into the video-in jack (typically the yellow one) and viola!
I'm sure Apple did this in an attempt to make people by their $20 proprietary cables and I'll bet that some not-so-savy folks out there will fall for the bait, but come on!! Why does is Apple so absolutely resistant to standards, especially on stupid stuff like RCA cables?
