DVI to S-Video or RCA?

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    I'm basically looking for a quick and cheap solution to hook up my PC (which ONLY has 2x DVI ports in the back) to my old standard definition TV. I have a receiver that has s-video and RCA support.

    What would be the cheapest way to do DVI to s-video or just a yellow video cable? Thanks!
     
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    There's about 20 reviews saying that doesn't work at all... I don't know if they just don't know what they're talking about or what.
     
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    I found this, is it possible to have a component cables on one end go into the yellow video cable on the other end?
     
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    The reviews on newegg were almost all from people that were trying to use it as an input (VGA is never an input, except on some very high-end cards)

    You can get a component to composite adapter, but at that point, you are spending more for less quality. You can also get a component to S-Video adapter...this will still cost more, but should give you slightly better quality than the VGA to composite adapter.
     
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    Ok, so here's what I bought.

    http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10401&cs_id=1040107&p_id=2120&seq=1&format=2 for sound, works great.

    http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...d=10241&cs_id=1024101&p_id=130&seq=1&format=2 Just your standard RCA cable.

    http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10401&cs_id=1040113&p_id=2509&seq=1&format=2 for the VGA->Video

    Unfortunately I think the VGA->S-Video/RCA is only an adapter, not a converter, and my videocard doesn't support that?

    My computer detects an analog device, even lets me set the resolution and color and everything, as it should work, but all I get is a dark screen on my TV. You can see some staticy lines going up.

    Monoprice says that I have to buy this; http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10114&cs_id=1011407&p_id=4724&seq=1&format=2 Which kind of sucks because it's more expensive, and I already spent the 13$ on this worthless junk :(
     
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    I'm retarded... I didn't see the S-video out on my graphics card, I just used this cable I found at work to convert it into normal video. Works flawlessly now.
     
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