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]