Was someone looking for this RCA Camcorder cable for their VidPod?

[BigGuynRusty]

6' CAMCORDER CABLE, 3.5MM TO RCA PLUGS:
http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bin/it...LUGS_.html


BGnR

[Ken Sp.]

Don't forget Apple set the cable to a non-standard set up
You need to switch them to work
Just swap the yellow and red cables and your in business - it does work. However, in a discussion on this topic a person pointed something out that may explain why Apple has done this, and there is then good reason for it. Apparently on a standard A/V cable the video channel is on the center ring of the mini-plug. The problem is then that you have to use an A/V cable, because if you used an audio-only cable you'd lose one of the audio channels because it as at the bottom ring! That would mean you couldn't plug in standard headphones without an adapter, and so Apple changed the A/V cable so that both audio channels are at the top and the video channel is at the bottom. That way you can use either an A/V cable or a straight left/right audio cable and both work. Makes sense! Of course Apple could have opted to tell you that you can just switch the red and yellow wires on a standard A/V cable, but that's a lesser evil - you could even argue that that would just complicate matters and so they may even be justified in not revealing that info.