Apple's iPod is capable of playing all kinds of music and movies. But if you want to see those videos on a slightly larger screen, you can connect your iPod to a portable DVD player. How you connect the two devices can vary. Some manufacturers make DVD players that can automatically accept iPods. If you don't have one of these, you need the right cable connection. This can be tricky because of how the iPod's audio/video setup works.
Instructions
1. Get a DVD player with a built-in iPod dock. Phillips and Daewoo are manufacturers that produce players with docks. Mount the iPod into the dock. If you have a DVD player without a dock, make sure it has input ports.
2. Check the available input ports on the DVD player. If it has RCA composite ports (yellow, white and red), you are ready to go. If it only has S-video (circular port with five pins) or digital coaxial (single orange RCA-style port), get an adapter that will connect to that port and to composite plugs. Connect this adapter to your player.
3. Connect the iPod to the DVD player's composite input with an iPod audio/video cable. This special cable connects to the iPod's exclusive connector port on the bottom. The RCA plugs are on the other end of the cable.
4. Connect the iPod's mini stereo output port to a mini to RCA composite cable if you don't have the iPod cable. This cable has a 1/8-inch thick coaxial plug (like the one used in most portable stereo connections) but with three black bands instead of two. The other end has the standard RCA composite video plugs.
5. Connect the RCA plugs to the input ports on the DVD player. If you're using regular composite cables, you need to plug it in differently because of Apple's configuration. The white plug goes still goes into the white port, but the red plug goes into the yellow port, and the yellow plug goes in the red port.
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