Connecting ibook to TV

My daughter just got a 14" iBook for college. It has a 60 GB hard drive, 512MB memory and built in airport. Is there a way to connect the iBook to a television that has component video and s-video connections so that she can watch DVD's on the TV?
It appears that the computer has firewire ports, USB ports, 2 phone/modem ports and another rectangular sort of port that I don't know its' function, but not an S video out port.
Thanks!

KAREPA, you might want to post this in the iBook forum, but you can definitely connect the iBook to a TV with the $19 Apple Video Adapter. This will allow you to connect the iBook to the TV's S-Video or composite video connections. Just type "Apple Video Adapter" in the search field at the online Apple Store and you can read about it.
That will take care of your video, but you still need to connect the audio out on the iBook to the audio port on the TV. That will require a mini to RCA stereo cable like this one at Radio Shack:
http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&product%5Fid=15-2451

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