Connecting new iPod Classic to a TV

Hi! I am hoping that someone can help me. I am somewhat new to this whole mp3 thing. I did get my 9yr old daughter an iPod nano for Christmas and have been helping her set hers up, but that's pretty much the extent of my experience. So, please forgive my ignorance.
I am thinking about getting myself a new 80gb iPod classic. I would like to be able to easily hook it up to various TV's to watch downloaded movies. As I believe that composite hook-ups are the most universal, I'm thinking that composite cables would be the way to go. However, after researching this for the past couple of hours, I think I am more confused than I was before. If I am understanding this correctly, with the new iPod classics, you have to purchase special $50 Apple cables if you want to watch your videos on a TV. And then there is a $50 dock that is available that I can't really figure out what it does. Is the dock necessary? Do I need both the cable and the dock? Is there anything else I would have to buy? Is there a better and/or cheaper way to achieve this? I would really like to know before I spend $250 on the iPod how much more money I am going to have to spend in order to watch downloaded movies on the TV. Any help/advice at all would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
AC

Unfortunately for both of us the $50 cables are required for the use of an iPod classic on the TV. I got on the chat with one of the apple professionals to ask this question because I have purchased $10 cable that I thought would connect my iPod to the TV for the purpose of viewing videos, to my surprise all I was able to achieve was sound. After messing with the video settings it was all still to no avail. As far as the Dock...it's not required for use with your TV, the cables will do just fine, and I've not looked into what the dock does myself.

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