The MacDevCenter's (and former Lifehacker Associate Editor) Erica Sadun has discovered an interesting quirk about the fifth generation video iPod that could save you some money this Christmas.
You don't have to fork out for an outrageously priced "proprietary" Apple video cable. You don't even have to buy an expensive dock. You
can
connect your Video iPod directly to a TV, and you can do it with the ordinary camcorder A/V-to-RCA cable you probably already have lying around your house.
The simple trick is that the video outputs to the red RCA jack rather than the traditional yellow. With that little trick, you'll probably save around ten bucks.
So... kinda lame, Apple, but whatever.