The other week I decided to buy the AV cables for my iPod/iPhone, thinking it would be handy to play a few show that I have on my iPod. After I got home from buying the (expensive) cables, I learned that they didn’t quite fit my television inputs. With a little bit lot of force, they might fit, but at the risk of breaking the inputs. A little bit of googling shown that other people have gotten the same results.
Looking at the images above, you can see Apple decided to be cool and continue the aluminum body all the way to the end of sleeve. Most people seem to just toss the cables is frustration, but with a trip to the local store, you can get RCA adapters and use a short set of RCA cables (that you probably have laying around) to go in between.
This seems pretty simple solution, but I haven’t heard of anyone actually doing it. With the adapters, you can put use a little bit of force to get the on the cable and just leave them on after you are done. I’m pretty sure there is some loss in the adapters, but it’s better than nothing.
I got the component ones for my iPhone and really have not used them at all outside of the initial testing. It’s partly because whenever I want to use them, it’s with something that doesn’t support component… But I do remember it was quite tough to get it unplugged. Nice workaround. They don’t look that bad /: )