Using an AV cable

We recently switched from our local cable company to AT&T's U-Verse. Because of a legal spat between AT&T and Cablevision, AMC's parent company, "American Movie Classics" is not part of our channel lineup and we ended up missing the last 2 episodes of "Mad Men," AMC's original series. Not a problem. I downloaded the last 2 episodes from iTunes.
I had heard about the AV cable for the iPod and wanted to watch the episodes on out TV. Once I saw that the cable cost $45.00, I felt that was a steep investment to watch $4.00 worth of TV programming so I bought an RCA iPod AV cable on ebay (headphone jack model).
I tried playing with the "video out" settings on my iPod but could only get the audio to work. Same results on 2 TVs. I was prepared to chalk this up to problems with non-Apple equipment when I read some reviews of customers who had purchased the Apple AV cabe and were having the same problem.
Has anyone gotten the AV cable to work? Does the dock connector model work better than the headphone connector? And has anyone gotten a non-Apple cable to work for the video?
I am using a 30 GB iPod with video display.

Never mind.
I tried it again, did the exact same thing as before and this time it worked. Don't ask me how or why. I think that these machines can be moody & tempramental and sometimes just don't feel like working.

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