Is there a way to *disable* tv-out on ipod touch?

I just upgraded from a regular ipod classic to the new touch. I had one of those Peripheral ipod kits in the car, and my son likes to watch movies on our longer drives to the grandparents every weekend.
Anyway, got this new ipod touch, which blocks out video when it's plugged in. The screen says "plugged in - video is displayed on connected screen". Problem is, there is no connected screen. I just run this through my factory radio. With the ipod classic you can go into settings and enable/disable tv-out, so you can watch the screen while it's plugged in.
This new ipod touch doesn't have that option. It seems to automatically default to tv-out if anything is plugged in.
How do I defeat this? This was the reason I bought the touch and it would be pretty unfortunate if I could not have my son watch his videos in the car.
Thanks!

Thanks for your replies, Joseph!
the kit I have is like this: http://www.amazon.com/Peripheral-Interface-General-vehicles-vehicle-specific/dp/ B0015D00QK
(not that exact one, but basically the same thing). I'm not using the 3.5mm headphone jack to connect it to the stereo as my car is a 2002 and didn't have that 3.5mm input jack. I'm plugging into the bottom of the ipod as this unit charges while it plays through my factory sound system. The unit is plugged in to where the cd changer used to be plugged in - this operates in lieu of the cd changer. When I press "changer" on my headunit, it goes to the ipod basically - but I still control the ipod from the ipod, not the car stereo.
I'll post screen shots of the two video setting menus of each device to show what I'm talking about. The older ipods let you disable that TV OUT, the new touches and ipads do not, for some reason. Can't imagine why you wouldn't want to override that - sometimes those charger cables make the ipod think there is a video output for some reason.
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