Getting video out of your iPod and onto a television screen is often both easy and difficult at the same time. It’s easy because Apple’s proprietary cables are plug-and-play, and hard because early iPod-to-TV options were somewhat easier — some early models of iPods would deliver TV out via the iPod Universal Dock and a cheap S-video cable. When Apple ditched the iPod Universal Dock’s S-video port and replaced it with the Apple Universal Dock, it also created a divergence of support for video out among the various devices.
