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In preparation for Apple’s “Black Friday” sale, I had two items in my “Shopping Cart” ’ one was the Apple iPod AV Cable ($19) and the Apple iPod Universal Dock ($39).

Last year I picked up an Airport Express at a really decent price and I use it often, so I was hopeful I’d get something else as equally useful.

Well, I could have been disappointed when Apple didn’t have anything all that interesting to me for sale...

...but I found something much more interesting. Getting the Video out of Your New iPod--for Cheap! which reveals that if you take a “camcorder A/V cable” and:

• Plug the red RCA plug into your TV's yellow RCA jack.
• Plug the yellow RCA plug into your TV's white RCA jack.
• Plug the white RCA plug into your TV's red RCA jack.

you can get your iPod with Video (c’mon Steve, can we call it a “viPod” please?!) to work with a cable you may already have ’ I did. I tried it, and whiz-bang! It worked! However, I have, as many of you know, a terrible memory. So I did what seemed logical to me:

But as I was writing “Red” on the white plug, and “White” on the yellow plug, and “Yellow” on the red plug, I couldn’t help but think that Orwell would be pleased, not as pleased as he was with a certain ad campaign, but this certainly strikes me as Doublethink.

I’m happy to see that this news has made its way into the comments on the Apple iPod AV Cable page. It will be interesting to see if anyone spots a downside to using a non-Apple cable.

Meanwhile, I’ve discovered I can use an existing cable, my Dock from my 3G iPod, and I saved $50 :-)