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Ooh, great build quality. Yum.
Yep, so I’ve been on a bit of a buying spree – and I gotta say, buying accessories is definitely a bit of wallet-basher! The composite cable for the iPhone/iPod is near to £30, which is incredibly harsh for any (mobile) cable. Having said that, you do get £20 worth of charger/USB cable included, so it’s not all bad.
Well the cable (like most Apple product) is extremely nicely-constructed. The packaging again is good, though I guess the thing most people want to understand is what the performance of the cable is like.
Well, I downloaded two films – Street Kings and Forgetting Sarah Marshall – with which to test the cable. The cable was connecting the iPhone 3G to a Pioneer 42” PDP, which is fully 1080p-capable. The reason all that is relevant, is that the bitrate and resolution of iPhone-compliant movies isn’t anywhere near Full-HD.
Now, whilst the quality of the iPhone output, and the scaling capability of the TV are most important here, poor-quality cables certainly don’t help – and I was expecting the Apple composite cable therefore to be excellent, in order to deliver a good picture – and it did!
All in all then, a seriously good piece of hardware. Unsurprisingly, from the guys who get it right 99.999% of the time…!
You can get the Apple iPhone composite video cable (in the UK) from Apple’s site here.
[Image via: Apple]
About The Author
Ben Robinson
Ben is a 10+ year veteran of the Mobile industry – starting his career when SMS was a still a relatively new concept for most people (!), he has now consulted on everything from bleeding-edge Mobile content, to the next-gen accessories you might view it on. As a result he has a broad and deep knowledge in numerous areas of Mobile – from network operators to device vendors, to infrastructure and middleware vendors (not to mention content delivery) – and has worked for companies in all of these areas! He is based in the UK, a hotbed of activity for mobile, and recently became a father for the second time – as oppose to in his younger years when he was happy spend time tweaking all manner of mobile devices to 'nth' degree, he now looks for services and hardware that provide the most efficient, compact, and reliable improvements to his already manic life! It’s his opinion that Mobile solutions should be there to help to make your life better – if a particular solution (be it service or device) isn’t doing this, he believes you need to ask the very important question of why you continue to use it... His focus at IntoMobile is mainly on Mobile content, services, and infrastructure, particularly as regards the UK market – and with the occasional look at devices. Additionally, using his extensive experience in the industry, he will provide commentary on the industry at large, with regular (and hopefully thought-provoking) articles.
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