HDMI to Composite RCA video cable to display Mac on TV

Does an HDMI to Composite video cable like this:
http://img.dxcdn.com/productimages/sku_16604_1.jpg
allow me to display my macBook Pro retina (late 2013) on an old TV?

PeterJayNebrasca,
no — you’d need a digital-to-analog converter of some sort to convert the digital HDMI signal into an analog form which your old TV would find acceptable.

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On the TV it appears the Snow Leopard Background but I can't see my desktop or the icons. What should I do to view my mac book pro on the Tv? Thanks!
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Compnent Video to Composite RCA

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AppleTV can output an analogue YPbPr signal, which is why you sometimes see people posting 'I've connected to my composite input and it's not full colour' - they've connected one of the red, green or blue RCA sockets in error to a composite RCA input, and only one of the luma, 'blue' or 'red' signals is input to the composite socket.
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http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=44724
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As noted above, you need to switch the outputs.
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