Connecting to Digital Cable TV box

I am trying to connect my video ipod to the front inputs on my cable TV box (rather than having to turn the TV around to reach the back inputs) to watch picture/videos on TV but nothing is happening!!! The cable company says they don't know.
I have the TV Out set on my Ipod and I changed the input on the TV (same as I do for DVD player) and I tried both PAL and NTSC settings on the ipod for the TV.
Any other suggestions??????
By the way, I'm pretty new at all this.
Thanks for you HELP!
toshiba Windows XP

Yes, we had a VCR only connected to the coaxial port on the same TV, and it worked fine.
Yes, we have another TV with a coaxial input, and we tried connecting the RF modulator to the other TV and the DVD/VCR, and it only showed static when we turned on the DVD/VCR.
Do you think a brand new RF modulator might be faulty? The DVD/VCR worked just fine when connected to a TV with both a coaxial input and A/V inputs.

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