{"id":1806,"date":"2007-08-14T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-11T02:14:38","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T20:14:38","slug":"pocketdock-av","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/pocketdock-av\/","title":{"rendered":"PocketDock AV"},"content":{"rendered":"<form mt:asset-id=\"4223\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/archiveimages\/archives\/pocketdock_av2sm.jpg\" width=\"88\" height=\"199\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/form>\n<p>The PocketDock is the Swiss Army Knife of iPod connectivity. A non-standard, compact cable and small dock with several AV connectivity options, it replaces a bag full of adaptors and cables and makes life easier, especially if you spend a lot of time traveling and staying in hotels. Mine lives in my laptop bag and goes with me on regular business trips to Australia, so I can plug my iPod into hotel stereos and even hotel TVs to watch video podcasts via S-Video. I&#8217;ve yet to come across a situation where I haven&#8217;t been able to output satisfactorily. The key for me &#8211; aside from the fact it&#8217;s significantly cheaper than Apple&#8217;s AV Connection kit &#8211; is how the audio is line-out, rather than from the degraded headphone jack connection. The sound quality, therefore, is higher: I can barely hear the difference between AIFF tracks playing on my iPod through my Linn hi-fi at home and tracks being played via CD on my CD player.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Chris Hunter<\/p>\n<p>PocketDock AV Cable<br \/>\n$30<br \/>\nAvailable from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000S379EY\/ref=nosim\/?tag=cooltools-20\">Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Manufactured by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sendstation.com\/us\/products\/pocketdock\/av.html\">SendStation<\/a><\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portable audio\/visual iPod solution<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}