Video cable: CA-75 vs generic 3.5mm to RCA?

Will a simple 3.5mm mini-jack to 3 RCA splitter cable work for video output?
The Nokia CA-75U cable has this little box in the middle. I wonder if it's doing anything that a simple cable doesn't or it's just for show.
Simple splitter cable:
CA-75U:

Well, I can't get it to output video. The TV icon shows on the phone, audio works, but not video.
I saw around other people were having trouble with the video out as well, so I tried playing with it. Plugging the cable first to the TV then the phone, the reverse, plugging partially, manually selecting TV out (when it asks), letting it automatically detect TV out mode (when cable is connected in a certain order), to no avail.
I read about 5800s that don't support TV out despite everything indicating they do, but I think those were in India? Are there really such models? Is there a way to detect if this device might fall into the same category?
Is there a chance the cable is to blame after all, despite other people seemingly getting it to work fine with random cables?

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