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thevaas

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Hi

I've got an old CRT TV which I was planning to use as a secondary display with my Mac Pro machine. The CRT has the traditional RCA AV input (red-green-yellow).

Will a DVI to RCA Cable do the job of just connecting my mac to the TV since I'll be using the CRT as a secondary display? I gather that the resolution won't be HD, but that's not what I'm looking at and I'm fine with no sound too.

Any input on this would be helpful :)
 
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Hello,

What TV model do you have? The connectivity seems a little bit weird: a normal CRT TV will have red-white-yellow A/V input (the video input is the yellow one, which you cannot use without a DVI-to-composite converter) or/and a red-green-blue HD input (component input).

 
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Hi Cristi,

Sorry I goofed up. It's a Samsung CRT TV and it has the red-white-yellow A/V input. So acc to you, just the DVI to RCA cable won't work? What is this convertor?
 
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Apple has its own adapter:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1762 , but it is discontinued.

This company produces an DVI/HDMI to Composite/S-Video adapter, but is insanely expensive:

http://www.atlona.com/HD530.html

http://www.amazon.com/Atlona-AT-HD530-Composite-S-Video-Down-Converter/dp/B000H0SUFK

A solution could be a DVI-to-HDMI cable and an HDMI-to-composite adapter:

http://www.amazon.com/DVI-D-Cable-LUCKY-BRACELET-PACKAGE/dp/B00MXF0N02/ref=sr_1_9?s=audio-video-accessories&ie=UTF8&qid=1409753495&sr=1-9&keywords=dvi+to+composite

http://www.amazon.com/HDMI-Composite-Video-Audio-Converter/dp/B00GH92V8C/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=undefined&sr=8-2&keywords=hdmi+to+composite

Or a DVI-to-component cable and a component-to-composite adapter:

http://www.amazon.com/DVI-I-Component-Cable-meters-Black/dp/B0018COZDC/ref=sr_1_18?s=audio-video-accessories&ie=UTF8&qid=1409753911&sr=1-18&keywords=dvi+to+component

http://www.amazon.com/Monoprice-107114-Component-Composite-Converter/dp/B009GUSJ6W/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=undefined&sr=8-2&keywords=component+to+composite
 
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