AppleTV on non-HDMI TV

I have an older model HDTV without HDMI inputs; is there any adapter that will convert HDMI to component such that I can use an Apple TV on this televsion?
Not concerned about a loss of quality, just something that will pass both audio and video.
Thanks

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There are hardware converters for HDMI, but if you want to play protected content such a converter would need to be HDCP compliant and if your TV is not a widescreen TV, the converter would also need to scale the video. I'm not aware of any converters that do both and discussing methods of circumventing copy protection (HDCP) or providing links to such devices are not permitted under the terms of use of this community.

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