78. Display Your Photos on a TV  BEFORE YOU BEGIN 77 Carry Your Photos on an iPod Photo
 SEE ALSO 79 Download Photos from Your Camera to Your iPod Photo
Running a slideshow on your iPod photo is a fun way to pass the timeon your own. After all, with only headphones to deliver the musical accompaniment, and only a little two-inch screen on which to show your photographic genius, who else can share it with you? The answer is in the iPod photo's ability to direct its photo slideshows to the composite A/V jack on the top of the unit or to the S-Video jack on the back of the iPod photo Dockand from there to a TV set. This output option lets everyone in the whole room enjoy your photos at full TV resolution (a far cry from the dozen megapixels of your digital camera, but still far better than the iPod's screen), as well as your selected background music. Equipped with the appropriate cable, your iPod becomes a presentation device suitable for showing off anything from your vacation memories to a business demonstration. 78. Display Your Photos on a TV 
 NOTE To connect your iPod photo to the TV, you need either a composite A/V cable (available from Apple for $19.00) or the iPod photo Dock ($39.00) and a standard S-Video cable. S-Video provides much better video quality than composite video does. Make sure that you use Apple's own composite A/V cable; other kinds of composite A/V cables won't work.
| 1. | Sync Your Photos with Your iPod Photo
As described in 77 Carry Your Photos on an iPod Photo , load your photos onto the iPod photo. Be sure to set up a separate album containing the photos you want to display in your slideshow.
| | 2. | Specify TV Signal Format
From the iPod's Main Menu, choose Photos , then Slideshow Settings . At the bottom of the menu, highlight TV Signal and press Select to toggle between NTSC format (appropriate for North America or Japan) and PAL format (appropriate for Europe or Australia).
| | 3. | Specify TV Output Mode The TV Out option has three settings: Off, On , and Ask . When set to Off , any slideshow you start is played back on the iPod's screen, with its sound directed to the headphones. If the TV Out option is set to On , the audio and video are directed to the connection to the TV, and the iPod's screen instead shows control information for the slideshow, letting you use the iPod as a sort of remote control for the TV presentation. If you set the option to Ask , the iPod presents you with a choice at the time you start the slideshow, asking whether to play it in the iPod's screen or on the connected TV. This option is appropriate if you like to alternate between showing slideshows on the TV and on the iPod's screen, and want to choose which one is appropriate each time you start a slideshow. NOTE Set other slideshow options as described in 77 Carry Your Photos on an iPod photo . | | 4. | Connect Your iPod to the TV
Connect the composite A/V cable to the iPod's output jack; connect the other end of the cable to the TV's composite audio and video jacks . Alternatively, if you have the iPod photo Dock and an S-Video cable, connect the cable to the Dock and the TV's S-Video jack, and place the iPod into the Dock.
| | 5. | Begin the Slideshow
From the Photos screen, highlight the photo album you want to use for the slideshow and press Play . Depending on whether you set TV Out to On or Ask in step 3, you might be presented with a screen asking whether to turn TV output on or off. Choose TV On .
| | 6. | Control the Slideshow from the iPod
The slideshow begins playing on the TV. On the iPod, instead of seeing the slideshow itself, you see an informational screen displaying the current photo, the previous and next photos in the sequence, the number of the current photo in the slideshow, and a readout indicating how much longer the iPod will show the current photo. Use the Forward and Back buttons to advance or retreat through the photos, and press Play to pause and resume playback.
When the slideshow is done, press Menu to exit it, and disconnect the cables.
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