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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So first, the iPhone appeared on the Apple Component cable page, and then we heard it didn't run video out, and then it did again, or...
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Will the video out work with the iPod AV connection kit that apple is selling / sold
November 28 2007 at 11:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyA demo video of this function would be great! Anyone here to give us a picture?
October 06 2007 at 5:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWould love to play Keynote talks.
October 06 2007 at 12:53 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply@13 punkassjim
All the more reason for MobileFrontRow.app, my friend. When does that SDK come out again? :-P
Will it work with photos?
October 05 2007 at 1:34 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply@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.
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.
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?
October 04 2007 at 7:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyBTW, 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.
October 04 2007 at 6:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThanks 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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