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iPod Touch video out

Submitted by tor on Sun, 11/18/2007 - 09:56.
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It turns out that the iPod Touch has one major difference from earlier iPods when it comes to video connectivity.

On earlier iPods with video you could use the same plug as for your headphones to get a composite video signal out - very handy and compact. With the iPod Touch this is no longer the case, you have to use one of the very few solutions that use the dock connector to give you the necessary video signals out.

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While looking for Video-out cables I cam across this from ilounge.com :

How do the cables actually work? It should be mentioned at this point that if you try to output video from a third-generation iPod nano or iPod classic using virtually any video cable or accessory except for the three reviewed here, you’ll see a white screen with the words “TV Out Enabled” and “Please Connect Video Accessory” under an image of an Apple cable. This screen is the sign that these iPods are looking for an Apple-developed “authentication chip” inside the video accessory. The iPod touch and iPhone, by contrast, don’t bother with a screen like this: they look for the chip before starting video, and if they don’t find it inside whatever they’re connected to, they’ll just start playing video on their own screens, rather than bringing up a TV-out dialog box as an option.

This is a bit of a eye-opener for me - has Apple really on purpose made it difficult to make video-out devices (and cables) for all the new iPods by incorporating what is in effect a DRM chip?

Shame on you apple....(if this is true)

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