Since Apple decided to screw its customers by requiring them to use 'official Apple' cables or docks to display video with the iPod Classic onto Television... does anyone know of patch for this... even a homemade one, that is available currently?
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JAMMco... its complicated...
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no i don't really know of any patch or anything. sry wish i could help with this.
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It's actually much simpler than you think. All you need is a video cable that is used for video cameras output to a tv. One end is a regualar headphone style sized plug. On the other end is 3 male phono plugs, or, the standard yellow, red, white composite plugs. But as a clever move on Apples part, they switch it around so that if you hook up the cable to your tv and its colour coded, you get no signal. Instead, plug the cables into your tv in this order: Red plug to Yellow input Yellow plug to White input White plug to Red input P.S. I can only confirm this works on my 5th Gen iPod Video. Since you have the 6th Gen Classic, Apple may have tried to fix this "hack".
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With the classic they seem to have made it so that it will not send video through the headphone jack anymore, you must use a cable that attaches to the bottom of the iPod where the dock connects... then it must either recognize the cable as official, or the dock as official, but if neither are official, it will not get past the screen on your iPod telling you to hook up a device. They did this in the guise that they could provide better Video features that couldn't be sent through the headphone jack... thus requiring you to plug it into the bottom where they can control what information is passing both ways requiring a response from the attached device. I was hoping someone could write a patch where the software is automatically getting a positive response no matter what kind of cable is attached thus causing the iPod to release the data... that or take the video code from the iPod Video 5th Generation and replace the Classic coding with that coding. Someone has to be able to do this, trick the iPod into always having a positive response that its attached to an official Apple product.
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