MB129LL/B Composite AV Cable with my new iPod Touch 32GB to my Samsung TV

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MB129LL/B Composite AV Cable with my new iPod Touch 32GB to my Samsung TV

I bought a new Samsung T240HD 24" LCD HD Monitor TV and when I hook my iPod Touch to it with a genuine Apple MB129LL/B Composite AV Cable, the picture is not very good on my tv, matter of fact, it's not even in color. Does anyone have any suggestions? Everything is new except for my cables were an "Open Box" purchase.

iPod Touch 32 GB Software ver 3.1.2, Mac OS X (10.5.8), MB129LL/B Composite AV Cable

Posted on Jan 5, 2010 3:25 PM

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sparky67

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Jan 5, 2010 4:02 PM in response to JonnQ

The image on the iPod is only 480 x 320 pixels. If you mirror that onto a giant 24" display, I just can't imagine it looking too good... there just aren't enough pixels there to fill up that monitor's native resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels. Essentially every pixel on the display will look four times larger.

As far as why you're not seeing the color, I am not sure what's going on. I have a 26" Samsung LCD Display... there is an "AV Mode" setting under the "Setup" section of the On Screen Display menu. You have to scroll down to see it and there is an "on/off" selector.

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JonnQ Author

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Jan 6, 2010 3:00 AM in response to sparky67

I believe I found the answer to my own problem. If my TV was not HD then I would use the MB129LL/B for the normal Red, White and Yellow AV connections, but since I have an HD, I need the MB128LL/B that has the Red, Blue, Green and the Red, White AV connections. I tried the MB129LL/B on a non HD TV and it works great.

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JonnQ Author

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Jan 6, 2010 3:02 AM in response to JonnQ

I believe the answer is, HD TV's need the MB128LL/B and non HD TV's need the MB129LL/B cables.

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