In fact, he tells us that it will even show a preview of what you're watching on the iPhone itself while the video plays, along with the standard video controls and information. Very slick. I assume the display is the exact same resolution as whatever your video is-- on some TVs that will matter, on some it probably won't. And I'm pretty sure, even though he didn't say, that this is an unhacked iPhone on 1.1.1-- the update to do TV out came with that.
Finally, Jim says he was disappointed to find that the cables didn't, however, work with his iPhone's dock-- when he plugged them in, he wasn't asked to display to TV as in the pic above. Good news, though-- he also notes that the issue is being fixed with the new Universal Dock, as Apple specifically says they'll work. If you keep lots of video media on the iPhone and have wanted to get it on the small screen, you're in luck.
Thanks, punkassjim!
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
10-04-2007 @ 3:36PM
Jonathan Allen said...
I got mine yesterday. Works like a champ!
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10-04-2007 @ 3:47PM
bpmarkowitz said...
did anyone get them from the apple store? i tried my local apple store this past weekend and they were out...
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10-04-2007 @ 3:53PM
tolliverjs said...
Does this work for everything shown on the iPhone screen, or only for videos? In other words, can you show what Safari is showing on a TV screen?
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10-04-2007 @ 3:56PM
Robert said...
Any idea if this works with 1.02? I know the article says that the update came with 1.1.1 but anyone try regardless?
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10-04-2007 @ 4:15PM
Thayne said...
what resolutions does it support on the TV? just 480p, or anything higher might I hope?
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10-04-2007 @ 4:51PM
badtzmaru said...
so yeah....does it work with 1.02?
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10-04-2007 @ 5:24PM
MacSlut said...
I refuse to acknowledge 1.1.1, so no video-out on the iPhone for me :(
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10-04-2007 @ 5:49PM
Galley said...
I got my cable on Monday for my iPod classic. If you're running anything less than 640 x 480, it looks like crap on an HDTV.
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10-04-2007 @ 6:12PM
punkassjim said...
Thanks Mike!
The box for the cable (and the store's product page) says that the iPhone puts out 480i or 576i. The iPod Classic and iPod Nano, for comparison, put out 480p and 576p.
I don't have an HDTV, so take this with a grain of salt, but the picture quality on my CRT television is superb. Of course, my video is encoded with Handbrake at 1500 kbps, and my DVD player is connected to my TV with a composite cable (vs. component out from the iPhone), but the color and picture quality from the iPhone is far superior. The only unattractive part about it is the chunky visual artifacts when camera changes or scene changes happen. Gotta find a way to kill those artifacts. Don't know if that's in the decoding, or the encoding.
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10-04-2007 @ 6:15PM
punkassjim said...
BTW, yes, unhacked phone with 1.1.1 ...I don't know where I saw it, but I'm fairly certain 1.0.2 won't work with this cable. That's why the Touch was always listed as compatible, but the iPhone was removed until the update.
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10-04-2007 @ 7:45PM
jayjay said...
So, what are people using the tv-out for? For watching tv-series on a big screen through the iphone? One would hope that techno-savvy people had better equipment for that... Not to mention Youtube on the iphone? Are there really people for whom Youtube videos are so important that they simply must watch them on the road? Or are all these features just nice to show off once or twice?
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10-04-2007 @ 9:53PM
Gary Palinkas said...
To be able to have video (on my iPhone..... not at my office/drag along my laptop/schedule a viewing) for customer reviews when I visit their office (simply plug it in to the office TV) is the overwhelming reason for me.
We are aerial photographers and we produce custom video presentations for real estate marketing.
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10-04-2007 @ 10:17PM
punkassjim said...
@11 jayjay
For me, it's because I don't want to buy an AppleTV yet, but I've got a nice video library brewing from stuff I've ripped from DVDs, and I've already got a device that plays 'em. It ain't as quick as syncing an AppleTV over the air, but it's a whole lot cheaper, and it's quicker than going to blockbuster.
Not sure if I mentioned it yet, but the picture quality is actually better than my dvd player's composite video.
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10-05-2007 @ 1:36AM
Vincent said...
Will it work with photos?
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10-05-2007 @ 8:28AM
Jeff said...
@13 punkassjim
All the more reason for MobileFrontRow.app, my friend. When does that SDK come out again? :-P
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10-06-2007 @ 7:03AM
Joshua Bloom said...
Would love to play Keynote talks.
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10-06-2007 @ 5:54PM
maruan said...
A demo video of this function would be great! Anyone here to give us a picture?
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11-28-2007 @ 11:09PM
Brendan09 said...
Will the video out work with the iPod AV connection kit that apple is selling / sold
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