Confirmed: Apple component cable works with iPhone

Will the video out work with the iPod AV connection kit that apple is selling / sold

A demo video of this function would be great! Anyone here to give us a picture?

Would love to play Keynote talks.

@13 punkassjim

All the more reason for MobileFrontRow.app, my friend. When does that SDK come out again? :-P

Will it work with photos?

@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?

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.

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.