IPod Classic getting Video to go to TV

I have an iPod AV cable, although it predates the latest -- it has 3 prongs to go to the TV and one prong to go into the iPod or the dock port and then the usual iPod USB cable can go from the dock to the small powerbrick USB thing...so one would think it works, but what happens is that I do this and follow the instructions, set the Classic to enable TV out, then connect everything to my TV [an HDTV with front ports for this sort of thing, that works fine with my MBPro and cables] and I push the play button and it just goes back to the video list and then back to the enable window [which says it is ON] then back to the TVOutEnabled screen - then back to the video listing...In other words, it never gets around to playing the thing....any ideas on why I have this loop???

Well I went to the local Apple Store and talked to a Genius and he confirmed that my 'old' connector set wouldn't work but I bought the new one. Took it home and plugged it into my HDTV which, unfortunately, is rather large so not sure how the little iPod iTune download to Classic would work....while it's not crisp and clear [looks like I may 'need' an Apple TV, , It did show up fairly good and sound was fine. So I can at least watch on that screen....Thanks for the pointing me in the new direction....

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