Connecting computer to HDTV, why no color?

Connecting my dv9000 laptop to my samsung TV using a SVideo cable but can only get black and white. SVideo output has 7 female pins on my laptop but all the cables I find are 4 pin like on my TV. TV does not have a VGA connection and my computer does not have hdmi output. Tried a vga to composite cable from radio shack but it seems those cables do not support video from a computer. Only composite output to VGA input like on projectors.
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Have you tried a cable like this example?
http://www.svideo.com/pro724.html
It appears there are others on the web. You are not getting the chorma (color) information, just the video portion.

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