X-Mas help!!!! What connects an IPod to a home stereo system?

Question

I want to get my husband a thing to connect his ipod to our home stereo system so he can play his ipod music through our home speakers. We have a receiver connected to our tv, satellite, and dvd player and all those are connected to speakers. I saw this thing at costco that looks like it might be what I'm looking for, but I'm not certain. It's called the TuneCommand
AV for iPod®. Can anyone please take a look at this link below and tell me if it is what I'm looking for? My husbands Ipod just plays music, it doesn't do video too like some of the ones I've seen lately. Also, he's not concerned about brand names or having cutting edge stuff.....just a basic thing to play his ipod music.

Thanks for any help you can provide!!!! :-)



http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11184336&whse=BC&Ne=4000000&N=4001428&Mo=38&pos=0&No=31&ViewAll=39&Nr=P_CatalogName:BC&cat=487&Ns=P_Price|1||P_SignDesc1&Sp=C&ec=&topnav=

Answer 1

looks like it would work. if not just buy a simple cable that plugs into the same place where the headphones connect and at the other end has two rca plugs (red and white)

Answer 2

Errrmmmm.... 'PHONES' usually is the output for headphones, not an input. 1) check the rear (usually) of your home stereo for a pair of RCA/Cinch connectors, labelled AUX IN or TAPE IN. If there's nothing of that kind there, ask again, giving the type of your home stereo, maybe soemone can help you there. 2) If you've found the AUX/TAPE input jacks, get a 3.5mm stereo jack to RCA adapter cable, plug the 3.5 mm jack into your iPod and the RCA jacks (matching colours, please - red is usually the right channel, white for the left) into the back of your stereo 3) select AUX (or TAPE or whatever) as source on your stereo

Answer 3

looks like the right thing to me wile you are at it get him a new ipod that plays the videos ect if you are going to spend all that money for this thing to connect to your home system then do it right...