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1.26.2006
11:54 PM | Link |
 I'm going to be selling my old iPod photo soon to my pal Josh, which means I'll be including all of the accessories that came with it. The iPod used to come with several things that are sold separately now, such as the iPod AV cable. This cable is about the only thing I still wanted from my old iPod, since it's definitely fun to hook up my new iPod to the TV to watch videos. So, I was just about ready to buy a new cable for myself (since my old cable will go to Josh), when I discovered an amazing fact (by reading customer reviews on Apple's own website)! Apple claims that the iPod AV cable is specially designed for the iPod, but it turns out that what this really means is that they "switched" the outputs just to make it seem that way! Any standard 1/8th inch jack to AV (yellow, red, white) RCA jacks will work - just like the cables that come with every single camcorder and most digital cameras, too. All Apple did was swap the yellow and red signals on the iPod itself! I tried my camcorder cable (plugging red into yellow and vice versa), and it works perfectly, which means I don't need to buy a new cable. This is definitely a sneaky move on Apple's part, and I'm glad I found out about it - having fewer cables to keep track of is definitely better!
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