love my ipod touch but have some questions?

[jsonlevita82]

im new to the site and been out of the ipod loop for a while i had the ipod mini for 3 years then finally gave in and bought the 16g ipod touch and love it. so i went to the store and bought a kit that included some rca cables cuz i wanted to watch my videos off my touch onto my tv but i cant get it to work. is there a way to doing it????? also has anyone figured out any cool secrets or hacks on it or is the touch just going to be an sweat ipod video with a touch screen????? lastly i got the touch cuz i needed a new ipod and it had more memory then the iphone and i had a phone i really liked but really wanted the iphone. whats yalls reason to get the itouch instead of the iphone??????

[scandalex]

im new to the site and been out of the ipod loop for a while i had the ipod mini for 3 years then finally gave in and bought the 16g ipod touch and love it. so i went to the store and bought a kit that included some rca cables cuz i wanted to watch my videos off my touch onto my tv but i cant get it to work. is there a way to doing it????? also has anyone figured out any cool secrets or hacks on it or is the touch just going to be an sweat ipod video with a touch screen????? lastly i got the touch cuz i needed a new ipod and it had more memory then the iphone and i had a phone i really liked but really wanted the iphone. whats yalls reason to get the itouch instead of the iphone??????

If its interface is the same as the 5th Gen iPod Video.... once you hook up your cables to the TV, go into (on the iPod) Video > Video Settings > TV Out (turn this on) > TV Signal (NTSC...I'm in the U.S.) > Widescreen (On or Off...your choice).

Hope that works; I dont have the Touch yet.

[h4xxr]

On all the new ipods (classic inc) they have removed the ability to directly feed AV out of the headphone jack.

You must now plug in a dock and then the AV cable out the back of the dock.

I do not know if the Touch supports video out even through this route - I have an iPhone, and this does not have any of the settings described above.

[jsonlevita82]

i talk to the tech at apple and he said to get the the plug that plugin in to the dock and the other end is red yellow and white so i was thinkin can't you make this using a old dock plug and some rca cables? still no word on the hacks? whats everyones oppinion on the itouch vs the iphone. y get a phone what hard as hell to text on and you can get the same thing with 2x the memory for the same price. isnt that what a phone is used for communication not all this other stuff? there are other phones out there this has aim text email phone thats alot easier to use so y not get the touch same features minus the crappy phone

[SJP]

Are you kidding? You must now use a dock? Looks like my 5g might have some value after all:D

I have a turtle top van with mounted tv. I ripped out the dvd player the tv used to be hooked up to and ran a rca line from the back of the tv to a shelf above the van's passenger's seat. Much more convenient, out of site, and I have the ability to control playback from the front seats. There's no room and no need for an iPod dock.

This sounds more like M$, than Apple; i.e. messing with something that works.

What's the point of requiring a dock:confused:

[jsonlevita82]

im sorry i didnt mean ipod dock i ment the usb plug that plugs to the bottom of the ipod cut that usb part off then connect it to the red yellow and white cables will that work cuz thats what the cord looks like that apples selling for 50 dollars

[RVN84]

can't help you on the video cable thing, but i love my iphone, and i type as well as I did on my e61 on it.... to me it is among the best cellphones i've ever owned.... dunno where you are getting your wrong opinions from but it isnt hard as hell to txt on it, and no, it isnt a crappy phone...

plus, i never had an ipod before, i think its pretty stupid to carry a bunch of devices everywhere you go, with the iphone i have it all...

as for being 16gb for the same price, i really couldnt care that much... i'd probably buy the next iphone that comes out with bigger memory, just cause i prolly wont resist (even though itll be more expensive), but 8gb is more than enough for me...

[SJP]

<Emily Litella voice> "Oh, that's very different...Never mind.":o

[kurro]

With the dock hookup, you can use component out...with the headphone jack interface, you're stuck with composite, which is on the low end of today's standards. Using the dock provides much more flexibility.