Blood and guts and RCA cables in my teeth

[prog]

Resolve to kill my (cable) television is rising, between several of you egging me on and my just now succeeding in getting my new iPod to output to my TV using a cable I already owned. (This took a little research. It tuns out that iPods switch around the three RCA plugs' duties, so if you plug them into the TV in the usual way, it doesn't work. I hadta read this article to learn the translation, which is basically: Insert the red RCA plug into the yellow TV input socket, the white into the red, and the yellow into the white. Doy.)

I actually called RCN but oddly their salesbots don't work on Sunday evenings. So, tomorrow. If I'm reading the website right I might be able to save more than $60/month, too. We'll see.

Comments

[karlvonl.livejournal.com]

The 10th or so comment after the article makes the point that Apple did this so that standard headphones would still work in the jack. This seems more plausible than "OMG Apple lock-in!"

[prog.livejournal.com]

I dunno. I mean, I agree with you, but the reason I already owned the cable was because I use it with my camcorder in the same sort of way, and it color-matches the jacks and plugs with no surprises.

I kind of suspect it's a halfway issue between Apple not going out of their way to screw with consumers, nor going out of the their way to discourage consumers from buying their more expensive accessories (by not documenting how to do a common activity like this themselves).