Comments on: Playing iPod Video on Your TV

By: nerd.

nerd. — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:52:10 +0000

Good to hear Charles. If I stopped one person falling for Apple’s rip-off accessory scam it was worth it.

By: Charles Gosse

Charles Gosse — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 11:17:40 +0000

Thank you, Steve Ferson ! I have a very inexpensive RCA dual-screen DVD player with velcro straps for the for the back of the front seat headrests in our car. I purchased it so that my daughters could watch DVDs on long trips. It never worked very well and we stopped using it - screen froze or wouldn’t boot up, just not a very good product in our experience. The girls started using my Classic iPod to watch videos in the car that I downloaded for them but that tends not to work when they are craining their heads to see the little screen. I wanted to send the ipod signal to the screens of our otherwise un-useable RCA DVD player but it looked like we had to spend a lot of money to do that, either buying the Apple component A/V Cable you discuss in your post or something a little less expensive, or so I thought. When I read your post I went and tried it and, wow, you sure are right, they did send the video over the red wire. Yeesh! So, again, Steve, THANK YOU!

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:31:52 +0000

Thanks for the tip.
I am dismayed at Apple’s tactics. £30 quid for a cable is extortion. To play a trick like that does nothing for customer relations. Anyway, I had a standard AV cable and now have video from my Ipod on my tv. Its good to get one over them!
Spread the word!!

By: virgs binond

virgs binond — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:18:03 +0000

i bought a portable tv with an ipod dock. i dock my ipod classic. i did what the instruction say but still there is no video
transfering to my portable tv screen. what im gonna do.

By: Julia Colby

Julia Colby — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:08:19 +0000

This site has been very helpful. But, still cannot get video to display on the TV from my iPod.
The posting above by Tony on February 24th makes sense to me and is a great post.

I have 160Gb iPod Classic, Apple Component AV Cable (3 for video - red, blue, green) (2 for audio - red, white).
Trying to connect to a TV that has the Component inputs. Plug all 5 connectors in, set the iPod to TV OUT ON and cross my fingers. All I get is the audio, no picture coming through. Get lines of color and that is about it.

This TV is not an HDTV. If you have the component inputs on the TV but it is not an HDTV, will I be able to display video using my iPod or is an HDTV required? The other thing Tony mentioned is that you should have your iPod USB plugged in for power. I did not do this but my iPod had plenty of power and I had no issue with my iPod displaying.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

I have spent hours and hours on this. I am a Technology Teacher and we are trying to incorporate the students using iPods in the classroom, so this would be extremely helpful, but nothing has worked. I had 5 people working on it today and NOTHING!!!!

Thanks for any help.

By: Bimmbo

Bimmbo — Thu, 15 May 2008 02:05:57 +0000

Hi there I am having problems with my 80gb classic too, I have sound and picture through the tv bu the picture is a split screen double up? can anyone shed some light on why that would be happening?

By: sarhar

sarhar — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:02:29 +0000

I have a 5G iPod video. I bought one of those cables (with the RED, WHITE, and YELLOW connectors). I plugged it into the headphone jack of my iPod, matched the colors as you instructed (RED–>YELLOW, YELLOW–>WHITE, WHITE–>RED), and made sure that my iPod was set to all the correct settings (TV Out: On ; NTSC; etc.).

The audio works perfectly. But, for some reason, no matter what I do, I’m only getting audio; no video signal whatsoever. If I fiddle around with the part that’s plugged into the headphone jack, I get some squiggly video (with really obnoxiously loud feedback on the audio), but that’s about the closest I’ve ever come to getting the video to work.

Any suggestions?

By: Liz

Liz — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:47:43 +0000

I have an ipod touch, and am only getting audio when connecting to my tv thru the vcr. I have a 3 ended cable (red white and yellow) I’ve tried putting the colors all sorts of ways and get nothing but audio. When I go into video settings, I dont have a tv out option. The words are there, but they’re not clickable. Any chance anyone can tell me what I’m doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for your time!

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 06:49:32 +0000

Alright I hope this post will help some of the confused readers out there.

Firstly if you have an ipod classic, ipod touch, iphone or a an ipod nano video, please make sure you have the right cables for them. The above mentionned model have brand new hardware and hence any accessories compatible with a 5.5 video ipod will no longer work with the new (damn apple!!!).

Secondly look behind your TV. If you see the following inputs RED WHITE YELLOW, you have a COMPOSITE input (RCA) which basically means 1 for video, 2 for audio (left and right). If you have RED GREEN and BLUE at the back plus another RED and WHITE inputs, it means you have a COMPONENT input.
Also along with these connectors, your ipod TV OUT cable should include a USB for power. Make sure that this is plugged in. (I forget if the composite pack (R-W-Y) has the USB. If it doesn’t disregard this). The current line of ipods & iphones require additional power.

On your TV make sure that you watching the correct input. What I mean by this is check your TV’s source list. Depending on what cable you have make sure you are watching that particular one (i.e. if you have connected with the component cable, make sure you are watching the component channel on your TV)

Once connected, on your ipod go to videos>video settings>TV OUT and enable it (ON). Select the correct phase setting (PAL if you are in Europe or most of Asia, NTSC for the US and Japan).
Don’t worry about the other settings, as they don’t matter at this stage.

Next select your video and press play. The video should now appear on your TV and your ipod should display a freeze frame image similar to the coverview when you play music.

Brightness and the actual time position can be now adjusted from your ipod.

I hope this helps out a few of you.

Cheers

By: nerd.

nerd. — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:14:43 +0000

As I said, I don’t have a Classic - all I know is they don’t send video on the same way.

What I can tell you is that if you don’t have Component In (analogue HD) on your TV then a component cable isn’t much use to you!!