Why won't my iPhone play movies on TV like it's supposed to?

I've hooked everything up properly. Movies play just fine from my iPad2 but when I try and play a movie that I loaded onto my iPhone the tv just says "no signal".  Movie plays fine on the phone itself. I even plugged phone into power source thinking maybe the phone didn't have enough power to play a movie on tv. Still "no signal".  I'm on vacation and hoped to watch a couple of movies. Thanks for any help.

I don't know how to delete this query but I solved the problem. Seems my case was preventing the AV adapter connecting properly to the iPhone.  

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