No sound or video through universal dock

My IPod Touch 4th Gen will not work in the Universal Dock. I have purchased Apple cables. No sound or video through my tv. Can anyone please tell me how to fix?

I was using just a standard A/V component cable alone with my classic ipod and it worked fine, but since i have purchased the new Ipod touch I was only able to get sound through to the tv with the addition of a dock and standard AV component cable. Purchased an apple component AV cable hoping this would fix problem and hooked it up to my ipod touch and dont get any audio or video now. I am trying to play movies that i have downloaded onto my ipod touch.

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Oh, drat! So you can either use just the iPod AV cable, which transmits both video and audio, from the iPod's headphone port to the TV, or...
... you can use the AV cable and an S-Video cable (in which case you also need the Dock with you)? With this second option, does the S-Video connection override the AV's capabilties to transmit video - so the AV cable is purely being used to transmit the audio??
Sorry to sound dumb, I have no experience with connecting an iPod to a TV.
Basically, what I want to know, is what I require to connect my 5G iPod up to my TV, to view photo slideshows and videos (both video and audio) - in the best/highest quality format possible. As I said above, I will be purchasing a Universal Dock.
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Did you look at that kbase article?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1454?viewlocale=nl_NL
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2. Component AV Cable: same as the Composite AV Cable but with RCA component video.
3. Universal Dock: has a dock connector socket on it and a line out socket.
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