Component to VGA Cables? Any Luck?

Hi all, buried in an earlier post someone mentioned they had made a component to VGA cable work with his ATV.
Since I am one of the many with all my component inputs used up, but 2 VGA inputs open, I found such a cable, but it did not work.
This DOES work however, with a similar cable to VGA, coming off my XBOX 360.
Does anyone have any experience with this? Is it possible?
Or is there a way to run my Denon DVD player using the component to VGA cable (I have tried this but also did not work). I have heard older projectors run this way??
For the record, ATV is working great from the component cable hook up but I am missing HI DEF TV now ....S Video is a very sad place to be in Hi DEF land.
Thanks to any suggestions you can give. Ian
20" Imac 250GBHD 2GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.9) 43" Pioneer Plasma

Since I am one of the many with all my component inputs used up, but 2 VGA inputs open, I found such a cable, but it did not work.Why not simply add a component switcher. Many well made models with 3-4 input component video/toslink optical audio to single audio/video output with manual, remote, or auto switching are available in the $75 to $300 range.

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