Connecting Color Correction Monitor To My G5 (Help Please)

Hello everyone. I'm getting ready to begin color correction on a DV feature I've just finished audio post on. I have a Macintosh dual 2Gig G5. It's an early G5 that has PC133 slots, however, and is NOT HD compatible or ready. I cannot use an HD video card (AJA, etc) or an HD monitor for cc - and simply cannot afford an AJA IO - so I'm going to work with SD. In the research I've done it looks like the JVC DT V1710CGU - a 17" monitor that is said to have decent critical color correction capabilities is what I might purchase (here's a link to one)
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt...s%3Den%26sa%3DN
How would I be able to get my video out to the monitor using my G5? The reason I ask this is because, simple as I thought it was, when I went to purchase the actual monitor and the tech tried to use it to see video from his laptop . . . it didn't work.
He plugged from the computer to the JVC monitor using a DVI to VGA adapter connected to a VGA to RGB cable (the DVI end of the adapter being connected to the computer) and connected that RGB end of the cable into the JVC.
He tried a lot of different monitor formats in his laptop to try to conform the computer's signal for the JVC, but nothing seemed to work. I myself have a Sony DVMC-DA2 analogue to digital media converter that I used to get video from the G5 to view on an external television set. The media converter is connected to the G5 via fire wire, and then connect to the tv using RCA cables, but the tech said that you DON'T want to connect the JVC monitor using RCA cables (composite . . . right?). He said use RGB cables (component).
Does anyone know, again, how to be able to get the JVC DT V1710CGU to output video from my G5 (Final Cut Pro specifically)?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Javier Calderon

Thank you much for the prompt reply, David. I really appreciate it.
I just realized right now - after reading your post and investigating, that is - that my Sony DVMC-DA2 has S-Video in and out. This seems that it would be sufficient then, no? So . . . what's the proper connection then? Let me know please if this is it:
Connect my Sony media converter to the G5 via fire wire. Go out of the media converter via S-Video and IN to the JVC color correction monitor . . . via . . . what? Does the JVC monitor have S-Video in?
Thanks again for your help, by the way. You've already clear me up a bit.
Javier

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