Play video from your iPod with a $2 cable

I know that none of our readers yet have an iPod Video, but I know that I for one am planning to ask for one for Christmas. (Hopefully, the elves had a good course in electrical engineering, or have some connections at Cupertino.) So, in the interest of getting ahead of the game, check out this trick from MacDevCenter which shows how to play videos from an iPod with a normal camcorder out cable instead of the expensive Apple add-on cable.

In order to make your TV play back the iPod signal, you've got to redirect the outputs. You can't just plug the yellow RCA plug into the yellow RCA jack and the red into the red or the white into the white. No. Those geniuses at Apple send the video signal over the red RCA output. (Normally it arrives on yellow.) The sound comes through the white and yellow plugs....So here's what you have to do:
* Plug the red RCA plug into your TV's yellow RCA jack.
* Plug the yellow RCA plug into your TV's white RCA jack.
* Plug the white RCA plug into your TV's red RCA jack