Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Multimedia, Video, iPhone
Confirmed: Apple component cable works with iPhone
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!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jonathan Allen said 3:36PM on 10-04-2007
I got mine yesterday. Works like a champ!
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bpmarkowitz said 3:47PM on 10-04-2007
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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tolliverjs said 3:53PM on 10-04-2007
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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Robert said 3:56PM on 10-04-2007
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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Thayne said 4:15PM on 10-04-2007
what resolutions does it support on the TV? just 480p, or anything higher might I hope?
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badtzmaru said 4:51PM on 10-04-2007
so yeah....does it work with 1.02?
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MacSlut said 5:24PM on 10-04-2007
I refuse to acknowledge 1.1.1, so no video-out on the iPhone for me :(
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Galley said 5:49PM on 10-04-2007
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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punkassjim said 6:12PM on 10-04-2007
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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punkassjim said 6:15PM on 10-04-2007
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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jayjay said 7:45PM on 10-04-2007
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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Gary Palinkas said 9:53PM on 10-04-2007
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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punkassjim said 10:17PM on 10-04-2007
@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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Vincent said 1:36AM on 10-05-2007
Will it work with photos?
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Jeff said 8:28AM on 10-05-2007
@13 punkassjim
All the more reason for MobileFrontRow.app, my friend. When does that SDK come out again? :-P
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Joshua Bloom said 7:03AM on 10-06-2007
Would love to play Keynote talks.
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maruan said 5:54PM on 10-06-2007
A demo video of this function would be great! Anyone here to give us a picture?
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Brendan09 said 11:09PM on 11-28-2007
Will the video out work with the iPod AV connection kit that apple is selling / sold
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