From my powerbook to my TV?

Hiya,
Does anyone know what cables I need, and where I can buy them to take the image out from my Powerbook onto a tv, then the sound into a PA system.... so basically the yellow, red and white cable input things...
does that make sense?!

Hi bamm, Did louies suggestions help?
I have been using my PB with VCR to TV for a month now. Gave up on making DVDs with this so called superDrive... now making vhs tapes...
Are you using the apple supplied S-VHS cord? It is a rather strange cord that ends with a standard video-out NOT S-VHS. Seems that you cannot use a standard S-V
HS to S-VHS but the supplied apple cord. If you want to do S-VHS to S-VHS then you have to buy another cord from apple - of course!
Also, to get the image onto tv I press the apple button + F1 (or sometimes F2) which automatically detects the display. You can use this instead of going into system pref.
Good luck getting it all to work.
frank
PowerBook15" 5,6_PowerPC G4 (1.2)1.5GHz1G RAM_167MHz Mac OS X (10.4.6) really wanting to love my new PB but...
PowerBook15" 5,6_PowerPC G4 (1.2)1.5GHz1G RAM_167MHz Mac OS X (10.4.6) really wanting to love my new PB but...

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/Home/Library/Application Support/iCal (copy the whole folder)
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