Compnent Video to Composite RCA

Hello,
Due to downsizing I need to use an old TV for my second Apple TV. Does anyone have an idea for a cheap way to go about this. It needs to be converted into a regular yellow RCA video cable. I have seen a few that are $100's of dollars. Is there another cheap way to do this? Can I go with a component video to S video adapter to an S video to composite video? This is a $15 fix but I am not sure if it will work.
Thank you for your help.
BW

Component video can be analogue or digital.
AppleTV can output an analogue YPbPr signal, which is why you sometimes see people posting 'I've connected to my composite input and it's not full colour' - they've connected one of the red, green or blue RCA sockets in error to a composite RCA input, and only one of the luma, 'blue' or 'red' signals is input to the composite socket.
I don't think fiddling with the HDMI output settings affects component changing from YPbPr to digital YCbCr, but I've not tried in practice.
Either way decent analogue component to S-video/composite converters are expensive.
There was a convoluted method posted ages ago to trick AppleTv into outputting composite on one of the sockets - Google might help.
AC

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