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If you're like me and you enjoyed using your ipod 5G to watch video on a docking station (I use the Sonic Impact v55) you may feel a victim when you're forced to upgrade to the new "classic" unit.
My 5G 30Gig died so I purchased an 80 gig classic. I placed it in the video docking station but it would not play despite the salesman's insistance that it was 'Backward compatible."
I was told the ONLY WAY it was going to work is if I purchased a composite AV cable.
It turns out that this 50 dollar cable has a CHIP in it that the ipod looks for before it's allowed to play a video.
Greed!
But here's proof of the greed: I plugged the 50.00 "official" cable into the ipod, let it verify and then unplugged and dropped it into my v55 docking station where it plays the video without any problems until I exit the video.
When I called the Apple corp office to voice my copmplaint they played dumb and claimed that there is "no chip" and that I am mistaken.
Say it with me, gang, "BS!"
There is a chip and the ipod does look to verify that it's there before it continues to work.
Greed, greed, greed.
I was considering buying a new mac computer and now I am totally turned off by Apple. If this is what they do to simple Mp3 customers I can imagine that regular computer customers would be made a bigger taget.
Shame on you, Apple!!
-Steplander