G4 to Composite or S-video How-to

Alright, I have read all the posts on this forum pertaining to TVs and G4 MDD and cannont find a consensus. I would like to plug my MDD into my television via composite or s-video. I have 3 options and would like to do number one so if someone can help me out that would be great.
1. Plug adapter into video card, video card switches from digital/analogue to NTSC or have a video card with s-video/composite out. If someone can give me a model number of a video card that allows either of these things to happen that would be great. Note, it must work on a G4 MDD, as many G5 video cards do not.
2. Get external DVI to composite/s-video
3. Get external VGA to composite/s-video
Like I said, I would prefer number 1, but if anyone has experience with dvi/vga to composite/s-video external converters that would be greatly appreciated as well.
Timothy

You can use the ATI Radeon® 9600 Pro PC & MAC Edition RoHS 256MB AGP
<http://shop.ati.com/product.asp?sku=3170809> with the Apply DVI to Video adapter
<http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?mco=16 193109&nplm=M9267G/A> The card has two DVI ports. One is dual-link, so can drive a 30" display.
The other card is the ATI Radeon® 9800 Pro MAC Edition RoHS 256MB AGP
<http://shop.ati.com/product.asp?sku=3170663> It has one DVI port (single-link), one VGA port, and S-video output (composite video with adapter). (You can only use two outputs at once.)
The cards may be available at <http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/video/hardware/>

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