Ibook video cable

If anyone remembers the video cabels that were used to conect the old ibooks to a tv, i wonder if this is the same cable for the 5g ipod. i'm not talking about the minivga-component adapter, but the 500,600 and 700 mhz white ibooks used a cable that had a headphone type plug on one end, and 3 rca's on the other. if anyone tries this, or knows if the cable will work, let us know.
-thanks.

Good question!
I don't know the answer, but I know the early iPod used a sleeve around the adaptor to transmit the remote control signal. Some found that the iPod remote could even control the iBook when playing media.
However, since this sleeve made the connector a bit nonstandard, I would THINK that it wouldn't be able to seat entirely within the connector on the new Pods, so it wouldn't work. I don't have one to verify, but that's my take on it.

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I've got a 1.2 ghz iBook (more or less - gutted to make a cool mod that's in-process), and I'm looking at a VGA to RCA/S-video converter cable. Now, granted the thing's only $4, but I was wondering if anyone knows whether that's all the iBook's video section needs (after hooking up the VGA adapter that came with it, of course) to output to a TV, or would I need one of the more involved items that converts the video signal.
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